Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Just Because You Got Stabbed Doesn't Make You An Expert

We have laws against inciting violence so what exactly is Stephen Timms proposing here:
An MP stabbed by a high-flying university student inspired by al Qaeda told how it was like a "bolt out of the blue".
Stephen Timms backed calls for an overhaul of websites hosting terror videos as he said Roshonara Choudhry's online radicalisation was "puzzling and alarming".
Indeed given that he acknowledges that his assailants radicalisation is "puzzling" he appears to acknowledge that he doesn't actually understand what motivated her so he is essentially calling for a ban on a wide range of unspecified material.

2 comments:

JuliaM said...

*sigh*

A whole host of ppl seem content to use this case to give their inner control-freak some free rein. To whit, the demand that the US censor YouTube videos on the grounds that 'they would be illegal here'...

James Higham said...

I wonder how high she was actually flying at the time.