Libya

And again! Hizb ut Tahrir holds yet another rally in London and is, for the third consecutive time, decisively rejected by ordinary Muslims.

Al-Jazeera reports:

Pity the Islamists; the rug has been pulled out from under their feet.

There is a lot of debate at the moment about what the fallout from the Middle East’s uprisings will mean for the region. Is this the start of an Islamist uprising or the birth pangs of a more liberal and pluralistic Arab world?

‘Megrahi’s terminal cancer was good news to everyone but him’

Although I could do without the crude aspersions being made about “the British” by the neo-Jacobins of the AEI, it is heartening that some of the politicians in New Jersey who keep the flame with the victims of the Lockerbie mass atrocity are calling for a House investigation into the full circumstances surrounding the release of the mass murderer Megrahi.

Here is another reason why I am highly dubious about the claims that the Lockerbie trial was a miscarriage of justice. In the late 1990s, David Shayler left MI5 and blew every secret he could to the press. He worked on the Lockerbie files, however, and insisted that the case was above board. (I should add that Shayler has since become the nuttiest of conspiracy theorists and insists that Jews – or “Zionists” as modern anti-semites say – are everywhere. If even he doesn’t believe there is was a conspiracy in the Lockerbie case, then there wasn’t.)