The other story that the chattering classes were getting exercised over the weekend was the supposed statement by Tony Bliar that "God made him do it" with regard to the war in Iraq. As Stephen Pollard points out, any reasonable reading of the transcript (below) shows that this is complete cobblers.
"That decision has to be taken and has to be lived with, and in the end there is a judgement that, well, I think if you have faith about these things then you realise that judgement is made by other people, and also by..."
[...] "I mean by other people, by, if you believe in God, it's made by God as well and that judgement in the end has to be, you know, you do your...
"When you're faced with a decision like that, and some of those decisions have been very, very difficult, as I say, most of all because you know there are people's lives, not just, this isn't a matter of a policy here or a thing there but their lives, and in some case, their death.
"The only way you can take a decision like that is to try to do the right thing according to your conscience, and for the rest of it you leave it, as I say, to the judgement that history will make."
Now the fascinating thing about this is how the chatterers - including somebloggers - seem to think that mention of personal faith by a Prime Minister is somehow wrong. Apparently even if A Blair Esq. is in fact a Christian he shouldn't mention this fact lest we all get upset and start thinking we are living in a theocracy. Curiously the same chattering classes think that it is perfectly OK for someone called Ahmadinejad or Sadr to state their beliefs, and indeed it seems that we must not insult Messrs Ahmadinejad, Sadr or their co-religionists by criticising their religion or its founder.
Does anyone see a tiny weeiny inconsistency here?
There are two ways to look at this. The first is that this inconsistency is out and out Dhimmitude. The second is that this is in fact deeply discriminatory and insulting to Muslims because it shows that the chatterers believe that Muslims are basically immature and unable to handle the same cricism of their religion that grown up Christians can.
Actually on more reflection there may be a third way- and how fitting this is when talking about our Dear Leader and his ZANU Labour party - and that is that the chatterers believe in the primacy of their religion of "Secularism" and hate the idea that any of their rulers could possibly not believe in the same things [the creed of the religion of secularism is something like "There is no God and Darwin is our prophet" possibly with some mention of Global Warming, Kyoto and the sacredness of the EU, UN and anything to do with them].