The story sounds silly, but hold on a minute, did anyone check the source? (I know that that's the subject of a thread by Tex right now). Click on that link. This story is brought to you by The Sun "newspaper". For those who fondly imagine that the British press is only made up of august broadsheets thundering 'truth to power', a little background may be required.
The Sun newspaper is 'edutainment' for those that the British education system has failed. It is written by cynical and highly educated middle-class 'journalists' for those 'left behind' in their schooling. It requires a reading age of eight. It is sometimes very amusing [Favourite Sun headline, announcing the opening up of part of Buckingham Palace to the public: "NOT IN HERE. I'M ON THE THRONE"], but it's hardly cutting edge quality journalism.
More importantly this thread has given me a valuable insight in to the American conservative mind. Let's see, America is involved in a War on Terror against islamist terrorists; let's quickly conflate that with Islam itself; the yellow Europeans didn't back us in Iraq (and they have socialised medicine too, the bastards), and, hey! there are muslims in Europe too - lot's of them!; and we all know that the Europeans are all a bunch of anti-semites and nazis under the skin, even though we've never been there... Yawn.
Just look in the mirror, because this is the mirror image of the lazy, uninformed, cliche ridden anti-Americanism that your opposite numbers in Europe have (many of whom have never been to the USA either).
So how did we get from a ban on porcine stress relievers to the Friday Call To Prayer echoing from Trafalgar Square? People, come on!
