Melanie Phillips, In Her Own Words

Melanie Phillips, In Her Own Words

On War with Iran:
“In order to win in Iraq, it is essential to defeat Iran... As I said last month and on many other occasions, the coalition cannot secure Iraq without first defeating Iran” – “The War Against the Free World” (01/05/07)

On Islam:
“A continuum links peaceful law-abiding ideological Muslims at one end and murderous jihadists at the other.” The British establishment is "transfixed by the artificial division it has erected between those who actively espouse violence and those who do not." – “The Multicultural Menace, Anti-Semitism, and Me,” Guardian Interview (06/16/06)

Understanding the Gibberish: This “artificial division” implies that there is no real distinction between peaceful Muslims and terrorists. The same flawed logic would suggest a link between peaceful Christians and those who bomb abortion clinics.

On Palestine:
“The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.” - “The breaching of NATO's defences” (06/03/05)

On Jews Who Criticize Israeli Actions:
“Jewish history has always given rise to Jews who, for a variety of inglorious reasons, have been in the forefront of demonising and persecuting the Jewish people to which they belong. It is a pathology as tragic as it is lethal. In its contemporary guise, its target now is the collective Jew in the form of the State of Israel, and its impact is no less devastating than when a Jewish convert dreamed up the first blood libel in the Middle Ages and unleashed mass murder on the basis of a terrible lie. So what’s new.” – “Jews who hate other Jews” (08/31/06)

Understanding the Gibberish: This suggests that all Jews, like us, who question Israeli actions are not only anti-Jewish, but committing the equivalent of mass-murder.

On Feminism:
“Extreme, man-hating feminis[ts]” have “lied and distorted” the issue of domestic violence. – “The BBC and gender fascism” (02/13/03)

On Adoption and Gay Rights:
“Yet the interests of children are served principally by being brought up by their mother and father. Such children have simply been abandoned and betrayed by those in public life who have imposed the doctrinaire ideology that all lifestyles are equal, and who have used minority rights to destroy the special status that is essential to protect the unique institution of marriage...But at the core of the gay rights movement lies an attack on the very idea of majority norms — in which it has joined heterosexual family- wreckers in their own onslaught on mainstream values.” – “Saying the unsayable” (12/11/06)

On Global Warming:
“Global warming is a scam... Natural resources are not running out but becoming more abundant.” – “The global warming con-trick” (02/25/02)

On Evolution:
“Evolution is not a fact. It is a theory with holes in it... Scientists such as the physicist Stephen Hawking still haven’t managed to produce their grand theory of everything that can explain the mysteries of creation.” – “Intolerance against religion” (03/15/02)

On Church & State:
“Secularism has infested our National Curriculum. It promotes, for example, unproven environmental propaganda [global warming] as fact, a subversive idea of citizenship [multiculturalism], a sexual free-for-all [gay rights, contraception] and above all, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth [say what??].” - “Intolerance against religion” (03/15/02)


This pamphlet was assembled by the Iranian Student Network and Jews for Justice to provide a more comprehensive assessment of Melanie Phillips’ views on .. well.. everything. Email struggle(at)gmail(dot)com for more information or to get involved with either organization. Thanks!