{"id":15127,"date":"2011-02-04T12:07:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T18:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15127"},"modified":"2011-02-04T12:07:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T18:07:52","slug":"brendan-oneill-the-egypt-protests-have-exposed-the-hypocrisy-of-mealy-mouthed-western-commentators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15127","title":{"rendered":"Brendan O&#8217;Neill: The Egypt protests have exposed the hypocrisy of mealy-mouthed Western commentators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <a title=\"Posts by Brendan O'Neill\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/author\/brendanoneill2\/\">Brendan O&#8217;Neill<\/a><br \/>\nFebruary 4th, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The last time I was on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00y2snp\">Moral Maze<\/a> I was hauled over the coals for saying that political violence \u2013 as  part of a radical protest, say \u2013 is sometimes justifiable. Yet on this  week\u2019s Moral Maze, some of the guests had a calm, polite discussion  about the possibility of enacting a far more massive form of political  violence against the freedom-hungry people of Egypt. One of the guests,  Professor David Cesarani, floated the idea of there being a Tiananmen  Square-style massacre in Egypt as a way of quelling potential  post-Mubarak anarchy. And there has been no outrage. No Twitterstorm, no  blog-based apoplexy, no heated radio phone-ins. Perhaps talking about  the massacre of Egyptians is normal these days.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/brendanoneill2\/100074767\/the-egypt-protests-have-exposed-the-hypocrisy-of-mealy-mouthed-western-commentators\/\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;The Egypt protests have exposed the hypocrisy of mealy-mouthed Western commentators&#8221; by Brendan O&#8217;Neill<\/a><\/strong>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brendan O&#8217;Neill February 4th, 2011 The last time I was on the Moral Maze I was hauled over the coals for saying that political violence \u2013 as part of a radical protest, say \u2013 is sometimes justifiable. Yet on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3VZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15130,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15127\/revisions\/15130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}