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Well, the first thing, Kate, in all honesty, Thomas Sowell's right
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You've got to understand the wellsprings of the different forces at play here
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The wellsprings of Western democracy are clearly Judeo and Christian, ironical, Judeo and Christian
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And the idea that you've got to love your neighbour, that you, you know, turn the other cheek
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that killing is an unbelievably serious offence, That's very different to, if you like, the Hadith instructions
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that Jews are to be, if you like, pulled into line, if not actually destroyed
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You've got to understand these source materials. You've got to understand the wellsprings
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Thomas Sowell is right. And I would make this charge against the Prime Minister
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and I'm normally very, very reluctant to criticise national leadership. I've been in senior leadership in this country for many years
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on television in another country. But my question to the Prime Minister would be
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and to your Prime Minister, have you actually set out to understand
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as Thomas Sowell insists, is necessary as your first step, if you're to preserve everything
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that's good about your culture, what its origins were, what works, what doesn't work
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what's required to sustain it. And what's required to sustain it is to insist that your citizens in a democracy
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first of all, Abide by the respect for one another that is so basic