The author Martin Amis has claimed he feels 'morally superior' to Muslim states which are not as 'evolved' as the Western world.
Responding to long-running accusations that he is Islamophobic, Amis launched a fresh invective against the Muslim faith and many of its followers.
He admitted his late father and grandfather had been racist but then claimed radical Muslims were the real racists, misogynists and homophobes.
Responding to long-running accusations that he is Islamophobic, Amis launched a fresh invective against the Muslim faith and many of its followers.
He admitted his late father and grandfather had been racist but then claimed radical Muslims were the real racists, misogynists and homophobes. The 58-year-old defended a proposal he made last year that Muslims be deported and strip-searched in a crackdown on terrorism. - Makes sense as whenever someone blows themselves up these days these are usually whittering on about Allah.
His latest comments came in a TV news interview last night and during the Cheltenham Literature Festival last week.
The Muslim Council of Britain branded them racist and 'shameful'. - But the bombing of kuffir buses in London and attacks on non moslems merit not a word. Shame on the MCB.
In an interview with Jon Snow on Channel Four News, Amis declared: 'I feel morally superior to Islamists, by some distance. I feel an intellectual distance to Islam. **So do most free thinking people who chose not to worship a faith that is called submission.
'There are great problems with Islam. The Koran recommends the beating of women.
'The anti-Semites, the psychotic misogynists and the homophobes are the Islamists.'
Days earlier, Amis shocked festivalgoers in Cheltenham with claims that Muslim states are less 'civilised' than Western society.
'Some societies are just more evolved than others,' he said. 'I am not saying these people are genetically incapable of not being terrorists.
'These societies are arming themselves with weapons like the AK47 and blowing people up on buses and Tubes.'
When one member of his audience suggested not all Muslims were terrorists he retorted: 'No one else is doing it.
'Here in the West we have the most evolved society in the world and we are not blowing people up.
'I am just saying some societies are more evolved than others. Young men in those kinds of societies are growing up full of loathing and hatred. Something has to be done about it.'
His latest comments came in a TV news interview last night and during the Cheltenham Literature Festival last week.
The Muslim Council of Britain branded them racist and 'shameful'. - But the bombing of kuffir buses in London and attacks on non moslems merit not a word. Shame on the MCB.In an interview with Jon Snow on Channel Four News, Amis declared: 'I feel morally superior to Islamists, by some distance. I feel an intellectual distance to Islam. **So do most free thinking people who chose not to worship a faith that is called submission.
'There are great problems with Islam. The Koran recommends the beating of women.
'The anti-Semites, the psychotic misogynists and the homophobes are the Islamists.'
Days earlier, Amis shocked festivalgoers in Cheltenham with claims that Muslim states are less 'civilised' than Western society.'Some societies are just more evolved than others,' he said. 'I am not saying these people are genetically incapable of not being terrorists.
'These societies are arming themselves with weapons like the AK47 and blowing people up on buses and Tubes.'When one member of his audience suggested not all Muslims were terrorists he retorted: 'No one else is doing it.
'Here in the West we have the most evolved society in the world and we are not blowing people up.
'I am just saying some societies are more evolved than others. Young men in those kinds of societies are growing up full of loathing and hatred. Something has to be done about it.' He added: 'I do not mean British Muslims - they are part of our society. I mean Muslim states.
'They used to be more evolved than us, but now we are more evolved than them.
'There is no inoffensive way to put this - by evolved, I mean more civilised. We have more respect for civil society.'
These remarks echo the controversial comments he made during an interview in 2006. On the subject of curbing terrorism, he said: 'There is a definite urge - don't you have it? - to say, "The Muslim community will have to suffer until it gets its house in order".
'Not letting them travel. Deportation - further down the road. Curtailing of freedoms. Strip-searching people who look like they're from the Middle East or from Pakistan.
Discriminatory stuff, until it hurts the whole community and they start getting tough with their children.'
Since that interview Amis, the author of London Fields and eight other novels, has taken up a post as professor of creative writing at Manchester University.
A colleague at the university, the Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton, recently attacked Amis and his father in the preface to his book Ideology.
'They used to be more evolved than us, but now we are more evolved than them.
'There is no inoffensive way to put this - by evolved, I mean more civilised. We have more respect for civil society.'
These remarks echo the controversial comments he made during an interview in 2006. On the subject of curbing terrorism, he said: 'There is a definite urge - don't you have it? - to say, "The Muslim community will have to suffer until it gets its house in order".'Not letting them travel. Deportation - further down the road. Curtailing of freedoms. Strip-searching people who look like they're from the Middle East or from Pakistan.
Discriminatory stuff, until it hurts the whole community and they start getting tough with their children.'
Since that interview Amis, the author of London Fields and eight other novels, has taken up a post as professor of creative writing at Manchester University.A colleague at the university, the Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton, recently attacked Amis and his father in the preface to his book Ideology.
He described Sir Kingsley Amis as a 'racist, anti-Semitic boor, a drinksodden, self-hating reviler of women, gays and liberals' and compared his son to a 'British National Party thug'. - Although I would rather be a free thug than a dhimmi to the moslems.
At last week's literature festival, Amis admitted that racist tendencies run in his family, declaring: 'My grandfather was racist, my father was a bit dodgy and I consider myself pretty free of it but get little urges and impulses now and then.'
In the Channel Four interview, he tried to draw a distinction between Islamists - the radical followers - and Islam, the religion.
'I blame Islamists, the ideology within a religion,' he said.
'All the perpetrators, with a few exceptions, are young men from Pakistan.
'Islamism will be a sink for every Walter Mitty of murder, every functioning schizophrenic, every rampant anti-Semite.
'There is a rage which has been building for the past century which is hoping to rebuild its (Islam's) superiority through violence.'
He went on to insist: 'I do not believe in any persecution of the Muslim community. I think that would be counter productive.'
Condemning his comments, a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain said: 'Amis clearly seems to believe many Muslim communities are primitive. - Again as stated civilized people talk over differences, primitives reach for the gun/explosives or knife first as many a moslem terrorist is doing.
But just because some extremists have committed terrorist acts does not give him licence to denigrate an entire faith community.
'He should be ashamed of himself.' - As should the moslem community for not doing more to tackle the terrorists in the mosques.
Tags: Martin Amis, Moslems, Terrorism, Jihadists, Political Correctness, Cool Britannia New Labour
At last week's literature festival, Amis admitted that racist tendencies run in his family, declaring: 'My grandfather was racist, my father was a bit dodgy and I consider myself pretty free of it but get little urges and impulses now and then.'
In the Channel Four interview, he tried to draw a distinction between Islamists - the radical followers - and Islam, the religion.
'I blame Islamists, the ideology within a religion,' he said.
'All the perpetrators, with a few exceptions, are young men from Pakistan.
'Islamism will be a sink for every Walter Mitty of murder, every functioning schizophrenic, every rampant anti-Semite.
'There is a rage which has been building for the past century which is hoping to rebuild its (Islam's) superiority through violence.'
He went on to insist: 'I do not believe in any persecution of the Muslim community. I think that would be counter productive.'
Condemning his comments, a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain said: 'Amis clearly seems to believe many Muslim communities are primitive. - Again as stated civilized people talk over differences, primitives reach for the gun/explosives or knife first as many a moslem terrorist is doing. But just because some extremists have committed terrorist acts does not give him licence to denigrate an entire faith community.
'He should be ashamed of himself.' - As should the moslem community for not doing more to tackle the terrorists in the mosques.
Tags: Martin Amis, Moslems, Terrorism, Jihadists, Political Correctness, Cool Britannia New Labour
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1 people have spoken:
In 1933 the Jews had no record of trying to blow up the Globe. Our good friends the Moslems, on the other hand, have a clear, traceable
record of violence and chaos since 1948.
In truth, their imprint of murder and mayhem dates back to those early days of the origial Moe-ham-mud.
Sometimes one does have to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
If there is cacer, all of it is excised.
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