Prime Minister’s aide insults Islam in tweet

Published: February 16, 2015 at 7:45pm

We laugh at our prime minister’s aide, Glenn Bedingfield, for tweeting the world about what wine he’s drinking, but let’s face it, he does far less damage if he sticks to his bottles.

He’s just tweeted an insult to Islam. Not an anti-ISIS tweet, but an insult to the religion as a whole. Maybe he can’t tell the difference.

Doesn’t he share an office with the prime minister’s special consultant on Islam, Mario Farrugia Borg? The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing, and not in a good way.

Glenn Bedingfield Islam

Joseph Muscat's special aide, Glenn Bedingfield

Joseph Muscat’s special aide, Glenn Bedingfield




30 Comments Comment

  1. Mila says:

    Is this another ‘person of trust’ perhaps whose qualifications to work where he does will remain shrouded forever?

    This government has quite a few major flops to claim its own but one of the very major ones must surely be its recruitment fiasco.

  2. Observer says:

    Independently of how much vintage wine he may really imbibe, Bedding Field will remain as stupid about international affairs as the rest of them.

    His wine intake, I should presume, accompanies quite a plentiful intake of solid items. The effect is there for all to see – no matter how blind some may be.

  3. Francis Saliba M.D. says:

    The alcohol in his wine is a much bigger supplier of calories than any more solid items (including fries) contributing to his rotundity and double chins.

  4. edgar says:

    In any civilized country a special aide to a prime minister uttering such insults to Islam would be fired immediately.

  5. Plagarised says:

    And parts of the Quran and parts of the laws of Malta are similar,

    Your women are a tilth for you (to cultivate) so go to your tilth as ye will. Quran 2:223

    Sections 199(1) and 200 of Malta’s Criminal Code reduce the penalty for abduction if the perpetrator intends to marry the victim on abduction and exempts the perpetrator from prosecution and punishment if that person does in fact marry the person abducted.

    Before 1991, the law only protected Men see below:

    http://www.equalitynow.org/law/criminal_code

  6. the chemist says:

    Just thinking this f*ckwit is getting paid from my taxes makes it worse.

  7. ian says:

    Stupid fat tnuc.

  8. Denis says:

    They are all fakes, the truth is gradually coming out.

  9. anthony says:

    It’s nothing to do with his fluid and solid intake.

    He has a condition.

    The Joe Grima Syndrome.

  10. Space Bones says:

    Are you sure that Mario Farrugia Borg is still working at the OPM. According to reliable information, he is no longer there, nor is he still in Malta with his wife and child(ren).

  11. Jon says:

    So is the government’s official position anti Koran but neutral on ISIS?

  12. Lizz says:

    He should cut down on his wine intake.

    That double chin screams ‘gout’.

  13. Banana Republic .... again says:

    In any normal European country, this would call for an immediate resignation.

  14. pablo says:

    This idiot should be thrown out.

    The mere fact that we are made to pay for this chump to eat and sleep and make an an occasional dumb or insulting tweet is enough to show the immaturity of whoever put him there.

  15. rob says:

    I hope everyone realises that history does and can repeat itself.

    Some may think the days of the Ottoman empire trying to take over Europe are long gone, as well as the Hitler crazy Nazi days, because we have supposedly ‘matured’ and become more united as a Europe and as united nations (not referring to UN).

    However, the madness of the past still exists amongst our civilisation and that is why we are seeing this IS group (aka nation) grow so quickly.

    Malta is a convenient place for them to put solid footing from Libya, since this island has hardly adequate defences for armies of their kind.

    Malta needs to enforce its borders NOW and enlist help of those nations with appropriate sea and air patrols before IS starts to infiltrate Malta.

    • H.P. Baxxter says:

      How exactly is ISIS the successor state of the Ottoman Empire?

      I wish you people would stop writing this sort of science fiction.

      Because ISIS have ALREADY infiltrated Malta, but not in the way you think. They did so officially, through the main gate, on a red carpet, through Qatari, Saudi, and Emirati finance in Malta.

      SmartCity belongs to ISIS. How’s that for alarmism?

  16. Gobsmacked says:

    Was he in his right senses when he wrote the above or was he sipping his wine?

  17. U Le! says:

    Maybe some journalist can ask Farrugia Borg at the OPM for his opinion on this tweet or are they all covering the carnival activities?

  18. Diane Abbott says:

    This is resignation material. Truly disgraceful.

    • mc says:

      You are right. Any public official who shows this kind of immaturity and irresponsibility should not be allowed to hold public office. But then what else do you expect from Joseph Muscat’s government.

  19. Neo says:

    As if he has ever read any of those books.

    And even if he did, he would not have understood anything in either.He is one of the Sensiela Kotba Socjalisti type.

  20. Neil says:

    In a normal country he’d have been marched out of his office, while an official apology would have been issued by a normal version of Kurt the Coconut.

    Maybe the twit was off his nut on Lachryma Vitis at the time he tweeted his tweet. Twat.

    • Fred the Red says:

      But this is never a normal country under Labour. Standards tumble to the pits and such howlers are the order of the day. Nobody bats an eyelid, nobody seems to care.

  21. David says:

    The horrors we are seeing carried out in the name of Islam are worse than the Nazi horrors.

    [Daphne – Don’t be ridiculous, David. You’re better than that.]

  22. Liberal says:

    I’m not surprised. The Malta Labour Party is a far-right party.

  23. RC says:

    Got a funny feeling that he read neither of the books. He just liked the post from “Stop Islam” and retweeted it.

    And how exactly is he going to stop Islam? Start shooting Muslims? De-Islamise them by force?

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