Dumb and Dumber

Granted she faces very stiff competition, but Shireen Mazari may be the vilest op-ed columnist in Pakistan. I think its time to start a weekly fisking of her obnoxious lies.

"Even in Britain, the Blair government has managed to increase the polarisation between its Muslim citizens and the rest of British civil society. After all, it was Jack Straw, a member of the Blair cabinet, who asked his Muslim constituents to come to him without the veil if they wanted to seek his assistance."

Of course it's Blair who has polarised Muslims. How dare he decry terrorist attacks in his country and how dare he say the problem is not with Islam but with a minority of extremists. And the gall of that evil Jack Straw who doesn't personally like the veil but has not stopped his constituents from wearing it when they visit him.

"Even more terrifying were developments in Scotland after the Glasgow airport attack when wall chalkings appeared declaring 'kill all Pakis'. Such is the level of hatred Blair's Britain now harbours."

Because the real problem in Britain is a few hooligans who vandalise public property with hateful words and not many Muslims who want to take innocent British lives with murderous actions. We all know that someone who says Kill all Pakis is worse than people who have actually tried to kill all Britishers.

"In October 2006, The Lancet published the findings of research undertaken by Johns Hopkins University, into the number of deaths that had taken place in Iraq since the US-UK invasion and the figure they came up with then was around 655,000."

This faulty research has been thoroughly debunked (here for example).

"Pakistan has suffered particularly on this count, especially at the hands of the Brits who find it so convenient to label their errant Muslim citizens as British Muslims of Pakistani origin."

The problem identified by the Blair government is not that the overwhelming majority of terrorists are British Muslims of Pakistani origin but that they have received training in the multitude of terrorist camps in Pakistan, But heaven forbid if Mazari would advocate strong action being taken to close down these camps. She finds it far more convenient to blame perceived British racism.