Martin Townsend,
Editor,
Sunday Express
Wednesday 4th February 2004
Re: Robert Kilroy-Silk�s column in Sunday Express, 1st Feb 2004

Dear Mr Townsend,

It is highly regrettable that Mr Kilroy-Silk is still parading the lie that all he was doing in his now infamous Sunday Express column on 4th January 2004 was �writing the truth about some evil Arab regimes.�
For a number of years now, Kilroy-Silk has been making racist comments about Arabs as a people � not just Arab regimes as he is disingenuously insisting. Below are a few examples. We wonder if you will let your readers make up their own minds by allowing them to read the following extracts from Kilroy's past columns together.
While the Iraqis - and the Palestinians, and the Algerians, and the Yemenis, and others - force their children and civilians to sacrifice themselves as suicide bombers to kill other children and civilians, the Americans put their lives on the line to rescue a solitary Private Jessica Lynch. (Sunday Express, 4th January 2004)
CAN everyone stop blaming the British and Americans for the fact that there are a load of thieving Arabs in Iraq?� The orgy of thieving in Iraq has more to do with the character of the people than the absence of restraining troops. (Sunday Express, 4th May 2003)
It is also the behaviour, as some analysts have pointed out, that we have come to expect from Arabs. They speak in very violent terms, they strike macho postures, like those demonstrating on the streets of Jordan calling for the creation of an Arab army, and "death to all Americans", but who never dream of actually stepping across the narrow border to fight to help their Arab comrades. Indeed, Al-Jazeera TV made the point itself when it responded to complaints about showing dead coalition soldiers by saying that Arabs are less sensitive to atrocities. Moreover, we see how they behave every day in Palestine and Israel. We know that their gunmen hide in churches, cower with their Kalashnikovs behind the skirts of women, and send children on suicide missions while blowing up Israeli children. (Sunday Express, 30th March 2003)

Yours sincerely,

Mr Inayat Bunglawala, Secretary, Media Committee, The Muslim Council of Britain

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