Murray Doug His Own Grave

While many in and around our free and fearless press strive to distance themselves and their publications from the years of systematic deployment of hate speech and creative storytelling aimed at all those Scary Muslims™, one pundit has owned up to all the worst excesses of those genres in a way that has caused serious embarrassment, even to those out there on the right.

To no surprise at all, Doug Murray The K has let the world know that his infamous assertion “conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board: Europe must look like a less attractive proposition” was not an isolated incident, and nor was it out of character. Murray is an Islamophobe, he is a racist bigot, he is intolerant, and he is ignorant.

He stated, during a discussion with John Anderson, that, for those Muslims numbering “Probably hundreds of thousands... We have a couple of choices. One of them is - and I say this metaphorically *for the time being*, BUT it’s NOT that metaphorical. One is to stand up and the other is to beg on your knees ... the British soul is awakening and stirring with rage”.

There was more, with Doug affecting his best faux-posh Eton Sixth Form sneer: “If the army will not be sent in then the public will have to sort this out themselves and it'll be very brutal. I don't want them to live here. I don't want them here. They came under false pretences”. Why is he suddenly wanting to expel all these people? Well, they abused our hospitality, apparently.

“These people came into our house. Many of them broke into our house illegally. Many of them were never wanted here. They have betrayed all of our attempts at hospitality. They've spat in all of our faces and now they want to trample everything we have underfoot”. Ah, he subscribes to the “Illegals” claim, as in the “Illegals” claim that is wrong in law. So it isn’t legal.

He told us who he was the first time; many took that on board, but sadly, those at the increasingly alt-right Spectator magazine did not. So it was that the mag’s management found themselves in one of those Very Difficult Positions over Murray’s latest swerve across the bigotry line. One of those was former long-serving Murdoch editor Andrew Neil.

After Jonathan Portes observed “A very explicit call for violent racist pogroms in the UK from Spectator ‘Associate Editor’ Douglas Murray”, Neil countered with “And in your usual weasel way you fail to point out he has not written this for The Spectator or said it on our TV or podcasts. I wonder why. Nor have we published anything like it. So much for academic rigour”.

Some of the responses verged on the incredulous. “And you're fine to have him write for the Spectator as long as he makes his calls for violence elsewhere?” was one. “Murray, who is under your employ, has called for harm to other human beings and is explicitly racist. Are his views defensible in your eyes? They shouldn’t be” was another. And what of his editor?

That would be Fraser Nelson, he of the faux-posh sneering dismissal. And he’s Re-Tweeting Murray’s advert for the article “An unfashionable truth about the UK riots”. Doesn’t appear fussed at all at Doug’s apparent call for violent racist pogroms, so long as Murray doesn’t make his exposition part of a piece for the Speccy. But then, Nelson did defend Taki for so many years.

Doug Murray The K just sprayed what was left of his reputation up the wall. The least his bosses at the Speccy could do was admit it. And sack the SOB.

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