The Outsider
The ventriloquism that occurs after terrorist incidents is always striking. Planes fly into towers, trains explode, gunmen run amok torturing and murdering Jews and whatever your particular grievance the terrorists all of sudden become your mouthpiece.
The travel-writer William Dalrymple used the pages of the Observer the Sunday after Mumbai to explain that the perpetrators of the attacks (still, then, unidentified) were "furious at the gross injustice they perceive being done to Muslims by Israel, the US, the UK and India in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Kashmir respectively".
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DOUGLAS MURRAY
December 2008
‘I have finished yet another round of talks at universities. I am both impressed and disheartened’
DOUGLAS MURRAY
November 2008
‘Airing the truth is not the same as concocting a lie; but neither must be made impossible’
DOUGLAS MURRAY
October 2008
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DOUGLAS MURRAY
September 2008
‘ The past 11 years have shown that security isn't an issue that divides along party lines’
DOUGLAS MURRAY
August 2008
‘ “Islamophobia” is a nonsense term. There are reasons to be fearful of some aspects and versions of Islam’
DOUGLAS MURRAY
July 2008
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DOUGLAS MURRAY
June 2008
‘Some artists have finally had the courage to admit that they are scared. But we need them to do better than that. We need people with a voice to show that they aren’t scared’
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