I saw a great 90-minute special on the recent history of the Nazi-style book-burning of The Satanic Verses.
Watch it quick – it’s only on iplayer for one week (I think).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00j6bnt/The_Satanic_Verses_Affair/
Read: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00j6bnt
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/14/newsid_2541000/2541149.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7883308.stm
A lesson from history I hope never to be repeated again. This is covered very well in the excellent book The Fallout – How a guilty liberal lost his innocence
The problem with arguing about stuff which may be uncomfortable to “people of the left”, is that whenever you try to argue a fact about religion, immigration or events like this, the default retort from the left is “read it in The Daily Mail, did you?”. Andrew Anthony is a Guardian journalist – kind of kills off that argument! Here’s a good example.
