Delingpole’s victims
Sir: In his most recent column (You know it makes sense, 17 April), James Delingpole suggests that ‘even as the wall is pushed on top of’ me by anti-gay Islamists, I ‘will be squealing with [my] last breath that it’s all the fault of Western imperialism and white heterosexist Islamophobia.’ I found this slightly odd, since I am so critical of Islamic fundamentalists that I have received a substantial number of death threats from them. I worked undercover at the Finsbury Park mosque after 9/11 to expose Islamists; I have debunked Hizb ut Tahrir as a bunch of theocratic fascists on live television; and after I wrote an article criticising the ‘Prophet’ Mohammed for having sex with a pre-pubescent girl when he was 53 years old, there was a three-day riot by over 3,000 people in Calcutta calling for me to be imprisoned or killed.
At no point did I blame ‘Islamophobia’ for this lunatic behaviour.
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