I had to rub my eyes a couple of times this morning as I opened the BBC website to find two more stories about the ongoing violence against Christians in Egypt. In the wake of the massacre of 23 Christians at Christmas, the first related the latest incident in which an Egyptian policeman had sprayed gun fire at a group of Coptic Christians on a train, killing one and wounding several others. The second relayed details of how the Egyptian authorities are now responding to these appalling events: by withdrawing their ambassador to the Vatican after the Pope had had the temerity to call on Egypt to take “effective measures for the protection of religious minorities”. The Egyptian foreign ministry described the Pope’s remarks as “an unacceptable interference in {Egypt’s] internal affairs.”

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In another one of those this-is-all-you-really-need-to-know stories from the Middle East, the Jerusalem Post is reporting today that a vulture has been detained in Saudi Arabia for being an Israeli spy. The bird carried an Israeli tag and a transmitter of the kind that is standard for tracking avian migration patterns.

The Saudi newspaper Al-Weeam said the bird was part of a “Zionist plot”, while Arabic language websites were said to be now awash with talk about Zionists training birds for spying missions.

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Douglas Murray has an immensely important piece in the latest issue of Standpoint, detailing America, Britain and Europe’s fatal miscalculations in dealing with militant Islam. This is the sort of piece that deserves to be read far and wide. So take a look and pass it on to all your contacts. To read the piece, click here.

Just sneaking in before the December 31 deadline, I think we have a winner for the 2010 Politically Correct Idiot Of The Year competition. Writing in today’s Guardian (where else?), we have the celebrated Henning Mankell, crime writer and dramatist. He is assessing the motivations of Taimour Abdulwahab, the Islamist terrorist radicalised in Britain who self-detonated in Stockholm last week, but thankfully failed to kill anyone but himself. What is so impressive about this piece is its all round, no-stone-left-unturned, right-from the get-go, cretin-level stupidity.

It all begins with the headline, and the subheading explaining that headline: “Stockholm bombing: We need action not just words to prevent it happening again“. And now the subheading: “In the wake of the Stockholm bomber, all of us Swedes must unite against Islamophobia“‘

If it looks like a dog, smells like a dog and barks like a dog, chances are it’s a dog. But this is no ordinary dog. This is the Hound of the Baskervilles.

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It is being reported in the British media today that at least 5,000 British Muslim schoolchildren are being educated according to the curriculum of Saudi Arabia, a curriculum which encourages extreme hatred of Jews and homosexuals amongst others. The reports peg off a BBC Panorama documentary to be aired on Monday evening. According to a report on the BBC’s website, Saudi education is a growing phenomenon in Britain and takes place in part-time schools and clubs rather than in normal day schools.

However, the documentary will also show how full-time Muslim school websites are disseminating extreme hostility to the British way of life including one saying: “Our children are exposed to a culture that is in opposition to almost everything Islam stands for… We need to defend our children from the forces of evil”.

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