One of Britain’s appalling red-top rags – but an influential red-top rag – is calling for the nutcase Anjem Choudary to be arrested.
The Sun carries an appallingly punctuated profile of this self-styled sharia judge and former lawyer – who, apparently, used to break all the Islamic rules by boozing and drug taking when he was a student – and wonders just how long it will be before he’s carted off.
We reported recently on how Choudary had wanted to see “the flag of Allah flying over Downing Street”, women, whether Muslim or not, wearing body bags, floggings, stonings in the streets – all the sorts of things he could find in abundance if he buggered off to Saudi Arabia or some other benighted Islamic theocracy.
So get lost, filth. Decent people don’t want you here. (Oh, dear! Is that sounding a bit like the Sun?)
See also this post on Pink Triangle.
2 comments:
I love that phrase "Red Top Rag". I instantly knew what you meant by it.
Interestingly, we do not have red top dailies in the United States. I believe there used to be one or two in New York City, but no longer.
However, our evening news broadcast on the major networks, is a seamless blend of news and entertainment. And, that's where many Americans get their news. So, we have the same problem, but from a different source.
Glad to see the Sun calling for Choudhary to leave.
It may open the discussion.
Everyone like him, who preaches sedition in the form of Sharia and Jihad against the Infidel, needs to leave.
Thanks, Pasto. I'm always conscious when writing for an internatinal blog (well, Pink Triangle is in terms of visibility, but it's mostly from a UK perspective) of idiom, and so many aren't. I suspect most Yanks know much British idiom and most Limeys know much US idiom. I always think of the idea, though, of, say, of chewing on a faggot, or putting a fag in your mouth. We can do those things over here. Americans may not fancy the idea, depending on their sexuality!
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