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The Guardian, Dirty Politics, and Me

Well there I was out there in Winklebury, Basingstoke, delivering my UKIP leaflets when my mobile rang. "Come home Dad, you are all over the Guardian and UKIP wants to speak to you. Imagine that, little me all over the Guardian (it turned out to be just the Guardian website). I found the website at home and there I found my Catholic Blog Catholic Rights being quoted. It quoted me accurately on its first charge that anyone who did not fear Islam was a fool in relation to Islamaphobia but then I was talking about the universal picture and how Christians are facing martyrdom by Islamist militants and suffering just as Christians in the early church. What the Guardian was trying to do was slant the story into a local setting where our Moslem neighbours were going to rise up against us. They were trying to paint me as anti-Moslem. To this I had the perfect answer. When the soldier Lee Rigby was killed in London the very next morning I sent an e-mail to the Hasingstoke Mosque