Kilroy and the Arabs

Robert Kilroy-Silk was Celia's tutor at Liverpool in the mid-60s. I think it would be true to say that they didn't get on well. One of the main reasons being he was a committed smoker of Capstan Full Strength.

Now he is in trouble for saying that Arabs were "suicide bombers, limb amputators, women repressors".

Well, the once-great Muslim religion that protected and then enhanced the science that we use today through the Dark Ages, has now lost it's way.

Where is the great Arab nation? Where is a working Arab democracy? Where is the great Arab University doing ground-breaking science?

On the same day that Kilroy was being vilified for his views, there was a news item in the Evening Standard which said that a girl in the Muslim Sudan was to suffer a public beating for getting pregnant. It didn't say what punishment the man got!

I like to define an Axis of Evil that countries can join. Basically, if you've got the death penalty or corporal punishment, you oppress a minority, no democracy or no women's or gay rights you're in!

Judge for yourself who's in that Axis.