Former British MP accused of Extreme anti-Arab and anti-Muslim views

Originally posted by HURRICANE 477
We might not agree with what Kilroy said, I don’t even like the man, but shouldn’t he have freedom of speech? There are many arab groups who say extremely questionable accusations but we don’t complain so much about them do we. I would say that the BBC’s action is saying, if anybody says anything we don’t like or agree with, yo’ll have to go. That’s not fair is it?

There is free speech and there is free speech…

As I put before, being a former MP and a TV presenter he should have known better – it is the fact that he was using a position of responsibility that is the reason why it is being blown up like it is. Yes some Arabic groups might have said things that could be regarded as questionable – but then they are desperately trying to gain publicity for themselves and be recognised as the voice of their people.
Kilroy-Silk, on the other hand, is already recognised from being an MP and from his TV program – his job as a columnist is to make people think, not to incite hatred. Imagine he had said ‘blacks’ instead of ‘Arabs’, for example, and that had led to rioting in racially sensitive hotspots and maybe serious injury and possibly death? Would you all be climbing on your soapboxes and heralding him as the voice of reason then?
Personally – and without making any checks – I suspect he made sweeping statements about a huge variety of people that we in the west would lazily call Arabs in the same way that someone who may once have met an over-weight and vocally forthright American from the bible-belt would call all white westerners fat christian fundamentalist loudmouths; or, in the same way, that all Germans are Nazis, all Frenchmen wear berets and striped jumpers while eating frogs legs, all Brits wear bowler hats, drink tea on the dot at 4, and say ‘Jolly good, show’.
And again personally I think that Kilroy-Silk makes victim TV to exploit the suffering and stupidity of the shell-suit wearing percentage of the population – TV would be better off without him and his sort.

Flood.

We might not agree with what Kilroy said, I don’t even like the man, but shouldn’t he have freedom of speech? There are many arab groups who say extremely questionable accusations but we don’t complain so much about them do we. I would say that the BBC’s action is saying, if anybody says anything we don’t like or agree with, yo’ll have to go. That’s not fair is it?

If he has ended his career i hardly doubt he is short of a few quid and could retire on what money he has made from others going on his show,I personally won’t miss him.

Now that the BBC have seen the light and removed him from our screens, maybe Ricky, Springer and Ophra could say something controversial and we could have them done away with as well.

Originally posted by duxfordhawk
I am neither for or against what he said partly as i know many people feel that way currently the difference is if you or i say it in a pub its not a big deal but if a “b”list ex MP says it,its headline news he is not inportant in anyway and makes his money out of other peoples dirty laundary which i hate,but he is entitled to his own views however stupid they maybe.

It is headline news when he uses a daily tabloid to put his views across. Being a former MP and a TV presenter he should have known better…

Flood.

Silk

I am neither for or against what he said partly as i know many people feel that way currently the difference is if you or i say it in a pub its not a big deal but if a “b”list ex MP says it,its headline news he is not inportant in anyway and makes his money out of other peoples dirty laundary which i hate,but he is entitled to his own views however stupid they maybe.

Still, I think he should have his right to free speech, which is supposed to be important in western democracies. We mustn’t insult other cultures when we can barely uphold our own culture.:p

Ha! Now the BBC can stick up a notice when his program should be on that reads “Kilroy was here!”;)

Flood.

I dont agree that all arabs are terrible at all, but he has got a very very big point

I wouldn’t like to be where you are Old Git.
Wouldn’t really know what to expect, as we only really here what the media say, at least you know for yourself.;)

Yeah his shows are crap but from where I am sitting some of what he says makes sense.

He’s probably only trying to get publicity, even if negative because it draws attention to him, as nobody watches his terrible talkshows.

He is not an MP and is not an active member of a political party (although he was and did stand for an MP candidate in a London ward ) . I think any political ideas he had are now in tatters .

He certainly is a joke but I’m not sure he is an active MP. After a while nobody would vote for him.