Jezbollah Corbyn (31/08/15)
Jeremy Corbyn's 'jezbollah' tendencies have been laid bare with the revelation that the London Labour MP described Osama bin Laden's death as a "tragedy" in an interview with Iranian state television back in 2011.
Apparently while speaking to the Iranian government's Press TV channel in 2011, Jezza said:
"This was an assassination attempt, and is yet another tragedy, upon a tragedy, upon a tragedy. The World Trade Center was a tragedy, the attack on Afghanistan was a tragedy, the war in Iraq was a tragedy."
Now if you ask me, the attack on 9/11 was a terrible crime not a tragedy, cold-blooded murder on an industrial scale involving innocent civilians, people of all religious faiths and others with no religious convictions at all.
Jeremy went on to portray himself a fully paid up member of the Conspiracy Party with comments suggesting that the US may have faked bin Laden's death:
"We can only guess that there is something fishy here. Either Bin Laden wasn’t there, therefore there has to be a story. Or, the pictures ... show something else."
Yet in less than two weeks time Jezbollah Corbyn will be unveiled as the next leader of the Labour Party and while that's funny in some ways it's also a very sad reflection on the scale of Labour's decline.
Murderer Brought to Justice (02/05/11)
The news that Osama Bin Laden has finally paid for his crimes will bring a sense of grim satisfaction to all, except the extreme religious warriors or 'jihadists' who seek to follow in his footsteps.
The murder of thousands of innocent civilians, including many Muslims it should be recalled, in New York on 9/11 is the most obvious example of Bin Laden's casual disregard for human life.
Contrast that with the behaviour of US special forces earlier today who spared the lives of Bin Laden's wives and children, as they stormed the 'safe' compound in which he was hiding in North Parkistan.
On a smaller scale and much nearer to home - a young British woman, a young Muslim - is facing the same poisonous cocktail of religious extremism, hatred and intolerence.
Shanna Bukhari is a young Muslim woman from Manchester who hopes to be the first British entrant to win the Miss Universe competition.
So what?
So did Kate Middleton when she was a student at St Andrews University and no one batted an eyelid about the behaviour of the country's possible future queen.
To my mind a young woman like Shanna Bukhari represents the future of Islam - a future where young women have the right to be educated, hopeful and ambitious.
And that's the best answer of all - to vile murderers like Bin Laden.
