The Biters Bit

The UK Establishment, which includes HM's Government and the BBC, has been applying the false label of Islamophobia to anyone who distrusts Muslims, as though it's abnormal to be wary of loonies who riot over cartoons, plot mayhem, kidnap journalists and self-detonate when they don't get their own way. So Sunday's news that Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini has accused British officials of "Islamophobia" for awarding the "detested apostate" Salman Rushdie a knighthood is most welcome. Nice one, Mohammad Ali. You tell 'em. (Salman miffed Muslims with his novel The Satanic Verses and has been under sentence of death since 1989.) Apostate or not, Sir Salman has a beautiful wife: Padma Lakshmi. She doesn't give a fig for his fatwa and wore her best mini skirt to Buckingham Palace on Saturday.