Now Lambert's old employer has had to pay compensation to the woman with whom he fathered the child. And perhaps the time has come to raise a less salacious but equally worrying question about this apparent agent provocateur.
For some years Lambert has been saying some very disobliging things about me and a number of other critics of Islamic extremism. Indeed, he has turned this into a kind of travelling show. At mosques and other locations Lambert used to give a presentation in which he presented a small number of people, including me, as Cold War-style enemies of Islam. His presentation included a slide-show of photographs identifying the culprits. A contact who attended one such presentation told me there was a clear and dangerous undertone to the whole presentation. On at least one occasion a member of the largely Muslim audience was inspired to declare that now was "the time for actions, not words".
I had always thought that Lambert could only be one of two things: a dupe or a plant. Given his previous history it now seems more likely that he was the latter. And since this is question season for him and his former employers I wonder if the Metropolitan Police could explain exactly what he was doing from 2005 onwards. On whose authority? And to what ends? In particular I would like to know if Lambert's efforts to stir up Muslim audiences against me and others constituted some kind of effort to smoke out radicals by using people like me as bait. Lambert, and the Metropolitan Police, still have some serious questions to answer.
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On a brief speaking visit to Florida I spot one remaining copy of Mark Steyn's new book, The Undocumented Mark Steyn (Regnery, £19.99), in a shop. I am reminded of his story of a reader being told in a Canadian bookshop that there was "no call" for one of his books while someone at the end of the very same counter was being told the same thing about the same book. Accordingly I buy the last copy and check with the nice lady at the till that she'll be reordering. "Sure!" she replies. A bookshop seeking profits and not trying to push Noam Chomsky onto me? Truly America remains the land of the free.
For some years Lambert has been saying some very disobliging things about me and a number of other critics of Islamic extremism. Indeed, he has turned this into a kind of travelling show. At mosques and other locations Lambert used to give a presentation in which he presented a small number of people, including me, as Cold War-style enemies of Islam. His presentation included a slide-show of photographs identifying the culprits. A contact who attended one such presentation told me there was a clear and dangerous undertone to the whole presentation. On at least one occasion a member of the largely Muslim audience was inspired to declare that now was "the time for actions, not words".
I had always thought that Lambert could only be one of two things: a dupe or a plant. Given his previous history it now seems more likely that he was the latter. And since this is question season for him and his former employers I wonder if the Metropolitan Police could explain exactly what he was doing from 2005 onwards. On whose authority? And to what ends? In particular I would like to know if Lambert's efforts to stir up Muslim audiences against me and others constituted some kind of effort to smoke out radicals by using people like me as bait. Lambert, and the Metropolitan Police, still have some serious questions to answer.
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On a brief speaking visit to Florida I spot one remaining copy of Mark Steyn's new book, The Undocumented Mark Steyn (Regnery, £19.99), in a shop. I am reminded of his story of a reader being told in a Canadian bookshop that there was "no call" for one of his books while someone at the end of the very same counter was being told the same thing about the same book. Accordingly I buy the last copy and check with the nice lady at the till that she'll be reordering. "Sure!" she replies. A bookshop seeking profits and not trying to push Noam Chomsky onto me? Truly America remains the land of the free.
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