http://melaniephillips.com/america-goes-into-the-darkness Remember when Obama empowered Iran to destabilize the Middle East? Before that, it was pretty peaceful.
"West" should be capitalized when used as a proper noun, ma'am. Also, I do not think a "genocide bomb" means what you think it means. If there is a bomb that can enact "the deliberate and systematic destruction of a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group" - then that's technology far beyond the reach of the robes-and-beards crowd.
Do I get to refer to the Israeli far-right's settlers as "Genocide settlers" now, since apparently Iran having a nuke makes it a "genocide bomb"?
"A loss of religious belief has led the West to replace reason and truth with ideology and prejudice." Wait, what? Is she seriously arguing that because we've moved away from blind faith in religious doctrine we've somehow become MORE ideological and prejudicial? LOGIC FAIL. Reading the rest of her book description and soem of her comments on the blog make me realize she's thinly suggesting we begin a modern day Crusade. That turned out so well the first time, what could possibly go wrong today?
She's a brit and from her comments I'd wager she's a counter-jihadist. Think a European tea partier, but replace fear of mexicans with a fear of muslims.
Melanie Phillips is a professional troll and her opinions can be safely ignored in _every_ circumstance.
I find this sort of flailing from the religious right endlessly amusing. When communism was the great enemy they could claim, with a degree of accuracy, that it was a godless enemy, and then fallaciously assert that the lack of religiosity was the underlying problem. Now they are faced with a world where the great enemy is religious - not just a bit religious either, but full-blown religion-is-everything serious. More religious than them, in fact. The upshot being, and I will never tire of this, is some of them claiming that the problem with the West's response to extreme religiosity is not enough religiosity. And too much secularism and non-belief. To quote Bertie Wooster, "I doubt that the idea which came to me at this juncture would have occurred to a single one of any dozen of the largest-brained blokes in history. Napoleon might have got it, but I'll bet Darwin and Shakespeare and Marcus Aurelius wouldn't have thought of it in a thousand years."
Interesting. And then do we replace the Tea Partiers' fear of Muslims with something else, or do they just get double fear of Muslims?
Phillips has had a really bizarre career trajectory. I would not be surprised to find out that she has some kind of degenerative illness, so dramatic has been her descent from Guardian social services correspondent to being quoted approvingly in the rantings of mass murderer Anders Breivik. I suspect a more likely reason for her descent into madness is a strong identification with the israeli state, she often writes approvingly of it and her trajectory has roughly mapped the similar Israeli descent from liberal bastion in the middle east to the squalid political position it now finds itself in. Anyway, she is widely considered to be a fringe joke in the UK now after several high profile incidents of extremely offensive nonsense (See the time she claimed that a 'gay lifestyle' could cause a pulmonary oedema) and the only place that will publish her is the Hitler supporting shitrag The Daily Mail. Think of a female Glenn Beck and you won't be that far off.
She even admits this in her profile: "She is best known for her controversial column about political and social issues which currently appears in the Daily Mail."
"Shitwitch" is going into my Bag of Favorite Epithets, along with "fucktard" and "diskscrape," which I just stole from a recent Patton Oswalt post-election FB post.
