Hysteria is not just a Def Leppard album

Of course it was bound to happen: a Daily Mail columnist - on this occasion, Melanie Phillips - calling for the Human Rights Act to be repealed in the wake of last week's London bombings. Because keeping it would be political correctness gone mad / "moral madness".

Apparently, multiculturalism is a "disastrous doctrine", religious fanaticism is a phenomenon observable only amongst Muslims and if things don't change we're all going to die. Oh yes.

A staggering assault on the Muslim faith - not surprising, though, from someone who is an unashamed apologist for Israeli policy in the Middle East. And, in the contrast between Muslims as a "minority group" and the "indigenous majority", there's a disturbing undertone of far-right rhetoric.

"We have to tackle all the sources of this poison" - indeed we do, Ms Phillips, starting by stopping the Mail publishing such hysterical, scaremongering, racist crap.

(Thanks to New Links for the link.)