I hope you are right. Please bear in mind that if Islamic countries wage a jihad on Europe, we’ll be the first nation on the receiving end.

[Daphne – It doesn’t follow that if you’re Muslim you wish to eradicate Europeans. Some Muslims are as bigoted, small-minded and stupid as some Roman-Catholics, but that’s where it ends. It is only our laws in Europe which protect us against the fundamentalist extremes of Catholicism. Before those laws, we were completely exposed to homegrown religious maniacs.]

But another dictator might emerge or worse still, should political parties like the Muslim Brotherhood take control of Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, we could be seeing a united Arab world whose number one enemy is Israel.

Guess who’s on their doorstep?

[Daphne – Think about it. Nothing and nobody could be worse than Gaddafi.]

[Daphne – Libyan national hero Omar al-Mukhtar, who was executed by Italian colonial authorities in the 1930s. ]

Not to mention the fact that Al Megrahi’s trial was a sham.

The enforcement of a no-fly zone is an act of war. It’s not simple diplomatic bullshit, of the type beloved of our politicians.

We’re seeing Kosovo 1999 being replayed scrum by scrum. Back then, the US and the UK, together with their allies, declared a no-fly zone. Soon they were forced to declare a no-military movement zone. When that wasn’t enough, they had to send in ground troops.

And then we’d never hear the end of it from Graffitti and the pacifist brigade.

No anorak remarks this time. I’m not, as someone put it “into GI Joe stuff”. Soldiering means being in a position to take someone’s life, or supporting someone else who’s doing so, and it’s not some game, but a very serious moral choice.

[Daphne – The internet is wasted on you people when you use it to disseminate and absorb rumours in the same way your mothers used to do at the corner shop. All you had to do was Google ‘British Petroleum Libya’ and ‘Al Megrahi release’ to discover that the first took place in 2007 and the second in 2009. In other words, the BP agreement came two years before Al Megrahi’s release.]

Or is it because there are still foreigners in the country who are still trying to get out on the first available plane?

What I saw were fireworks of the sort sold to the public and that are let off among crowds (even in civilised countries). Pretty much harmless unless let off in someone’s face. The labelling was in Italian.

Although I didn’t understand a word of what was being said, I just made the connection between what I saw and Berlusconi’s assurance to Muammar.

Can’t figure out though why he went to the trouble of denying anything, but then he is Berlusconi after all.

“Some people in Malta and Italy make me sick. They are afraid to act because of “illegal immigrant influx”.. well, enjoy the genocide then
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