Just another Brit attacking a whole religion and all Muslims for the actions of a tiny minority. Another Brit who is now 'intellectually' not different from the far-right neo-fascists. Another Brit who has planned a show in Israel, i.e. unashamedly being complicit in the genocidal war. Another leaning far right Brit who quotes from the Quran without historical or present context. Related As Brooke Ivey Johnson put it on the Metro , “ There is something uniquely deflating about watching a figure once synonymous with sharp, absurdist brilliance slip into reactionary cliché… Watching him railing against imaginary enemies online, you can’t help but feel that what’s really being lost isn’t ‘Englishness’, but perspective. ” British historian Simon Schama needs a history lesson
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51