Caroline Petrie, a nurse for the North Somerset Primary Care Trust got suspended for offering to say a Christian prayer for an elderly patient at the hospital. The elderly lady, she offered to do the prayer for, kindly refused and subsequently told another nurse who reported it to the relevant authorities.

Apparently, this was not the first time Caroline Petrie has acted in this manner; past incidents resulting in her being warned. We don’t know enough about the case or Caroline Petrie’s background to discern her motives. What is clear is that she has an overactive missionary zeal. It should be clear to her that not every patient that comes to hospital wants a nurse to become all religious on them, and she should be bright enough to know that not all patients will be from her faith or if any at all.

What people do expect however is good medical care whilst in hospital. Unless Caroline Petrie had any malicious intent, North Somerset Primary Care Trust would be better advised to simply give her another warning and provide her with appropriate training.

The story thus far had no direct relation to Muslims or Islam, and rightly so until you read today’s gutter press. I for one, avoid reading them as they don’t contain anything slightly stimulating to anyone who can even knock two brain cells together. However, I inadvertently found myself reading the Mail. Journalism took a new meaning for me reading two of today’s biggest Islamophobes, Richard Littlejohn, and Melanie Philips.

Littlejohn rants:

“While they genuflect to Islam and ‘respect’ every oddball religion from paganism to devil-worship, they despise Britain’s Judeo-Christian tradition and use every extent of their powers to crush it. It’s only Christianity which is singled out for such vilification…”

Firstly the world ‘genuflect’ seems very odd in the whole article, it’s different, and it’s not a word that everyone at an instant understands. And for such a silly article which draws such preposterous linkages, it’s clearly a thesaurus job.

More importantly, one can see the obvious hypocrisy in the paragraph. Whilst Littlejohn seeks respects and acknowledgment of the Jews and Christians in this country, he with the same breath unjustly vilifies other faiths (Islam) and British people who may have a faiths besides the three Abrahamic faiths.  And just to point out to Littlejohn; Britain was not always a Judeo-Christian nation, do remember your history! Jews were subject to a number of pogroms in Europe. After the expulsion of Jews in 1290, it was not until 1665 that Oliver Cromwell changed the situation and allowed Jews to return.

If we now travel back in time and rewrite the sentence above so that it reads as: “While they genuflect to Judaism and ‘respect’ every oddball religion from paganism to devil-worship, they despise Britain’s Christian tradition and use every extent of their powers to crush it. It’s only Christianity which is singled out for such vilification…”

What would Melanie Phillips think of that? The above sentence does not sound right, does it? In fact she would be outraged and call it anti-Semitic since it goes against her.

Phillips, in covering the same story links a YouTube video of a Gaza demo in which we see some protestors clash with police. She says:

“It was particularly telling to compare this incident with the astounding video footage featured in yesterday’s Mail on Sunday, showing police officers running away from chanting demonstrators who took part in a violent protest in London against Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip”…

“It is hard not to reach the dismal conclusion that a society faced with violence in pursuit of the goal of overturning Christian values and conquering Britain for Islam turns tail and runs away – while at the same time coming down like a ton of bricks on any expression of those Christian values which underpin British society, in the interests of ‘equality and diversity.”

She continues: “This is the way a society dies.”

Firstly, I was at all the demonstrations and from what I can recall, a small minority out of many tens of thousands were violent; and not all were Muslims, definitely not all brown. In fact some of those orchestrating the crowd from the sidelines were young middle class white non-Muslims. And from their actions you can tell they were very experienced at it too.

Secondly, what a far fetched link which attempts to divert the real reason people of all faiths and no faiths were protesting. Phillips very well knows that it was out of disgust, and outraged with Israeli barbarism that people protested. It was not as she likes to spin it, “violence in pursuit of the goal of overturning Christian values and conquering Britain for Islam.”

I can go on but i think you get the picture. Phillips’ and Littlejohn’s dislike for all things Muslim is clear for all to see. Their articles pander to the dark side of human nature. This is the same side that Hitler and his propagandists manipulated and led to the Holocaust.

As a Jew when Philips engages in this kind of xenophobia she tramples on the graves of all the millions of Jews who died under Hitler. To prove my point look at how Nazi discussion forums have received her article:

“She is a most unusual thing, a Jewess who sympathises with the indigenous population, and sees our survival as a good and necessary thing for the future of this nation.”

“Thanks, I’ve read a few articles from her and she seems to agree with many of our views, although she’s still a jew.”

“When the Islamic tidal wave smashes Israel into the sea where else but Europe and the States will there be for Jews to go? They better start using their scheming influence for the better or else the world will just be a big concentration camp for them all ran by their new owners- muzzers.”

So no Mel, diversity and differences do not kill a society. Society does however die due to hatred and bigotry.