Mel Philips perhaps feels she's angering swathes of Muslim opinion for all the right reasons, but its her clear double standards that would frustrate anyone on the more rational and objective plane, regardless of religious partisanship. Its true 'Mad Mel' spends significant time promulgating a state of 'war on our society' being waged by 'radical islamists' in her column and indeed in the sensationalist 'Londonistan', but her writing wades through quite a number of 'controversial' topics thanks to out oppressively PC society.

Incidentally she's spot on about a 'prejudice against telling the truth', and the way certain 'attitudes' are attacked, and others are ignored or encouraged. Unfortunately she provides a quintessential example in her own column of "misrepresenting" ostensibly contentious comments as being completely unfounded bigotry.

She cites the rapid denunciation of Martin Amis after he said he felt 'morally superior' to Muslims who were 'anti-Semites', 'misogynists and homophobes', and disagrees with him being smeared as a 'racist' and 'bigoted'. But then mentions the academics John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walts' thesis on the 'Israel Lobby' and its effect on US foreign policy. The doublethink is triggered into effect as she completely 'misrepresents' this study as a 'pernicious' polemic that argues 'Jews run the world and put it at risk to advance their own interests'. The same way she feels Martin Amis was 'misrepresented' (by the 'other side' presumably).

Mearsheimer and Walts' 'Israel Lobby' deals with serious issues, cites sources, and deals with facts. The same type of facts she encourages us to debate and engage with when assessing Dr Watson's study on race and intelligence. Its OK to argue the superior intelligence of Caucasians over Africans, but we can't deal soberly with a study on Israeli influence on US foreign policy, without shouting racism/anti-Semites.

About the Dr Watson study she states 'its a debate to be had', and 'very different from a prejudice which has no basis in fact at all'. Quite so, and if this ostensible attempt to squeeze prejudice out of our society is making it more and more difficult to tell the truth" then one should encourage debate about all issues, including the ones you're sensitive about.