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| Muslims are a threat to our way of life |
| 2004-07-25 |
| In 1748, the novelist Horace Walpole had cause to draw attention, in a letter, to the outrageous behaviour in France of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the exiled leader of 1745's failed Jacobite revolt. Prince Charles Edward Stuart was terrorising Louis XV - the rebellion's mentor, on whom Charles relied for everything - with endless threats and the most insolent demands. Walpole could not help remarking on the narrowness of Britain's escape. "What a mercy," he wrote to the Duke of Newcastle, the then Prime Minister, "that we had not him here!" If, said Walpole, the Pretender was prepared to bully the government of France, even though he was entirely in its power, what would he have done with a British government under his control? And what, I have been asking in recent articles, would Islam's equally insouciant "exiles" in Britain do with a UK government in their power? Indications from the Leicester South and Birmingham Hodge Hill by-elections were not encouraging. |
| Posted by:tipper |