Round-up

1. A newspaper cartoon comparing Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee which was gunned down by police has sparked a race row in the U.S.

This is NOT racist, but the paper should have known better than to run this cartoon and create an unnecessarily bad reputation for themselves. I believe they should have been allowed to publish it; however, from their own point of view, it would have been better for them not to.

2. Melanie Phillips: "Our police were never guilty of 'institutional racism' and it's time this witch-hunt ended."

3. As Geert Wilders is banned from the country, look who's already here - not only Abu Qatadah, "bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe", who "issued a 1995 fatwa or religious edict justifying the killing of converts from Islam, their wives and children in Algeria...[and] [i]n a 1999 sermon he called for the killing of Jews and praised attacks on Americans," but also Anjem Choudary, who thinks non-Muslims are not innocent people and thus can be killed with impunity, and has recently argued that people who get drunk should be flogged.

But remember, Wilders is the real dangerous extremist.