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  • The rise and rise of a pity-for-Osama lobby

    05/07/2011 7:32:49 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Spiked Online ^ | 05/07/2011 | Brendan O'Neill
    How did ‘I hate bin Laden and I’m glad he’s dead’ become the most shocking thing one can say in polite society? This week we have shuttled from an atmosphere of congratulation, even muted celebration, over the killing of OBL to what Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and High Priest of the Chattering Classes, describes as a ‘very uncomfortable feeling’ about the killing of OBL. Those who dare to celebrate his death – mainly young American jocks – have been denounced as ‘abhorrent’ and ‘sickening’, and now the main way you advertise your decency, your membership of the civilised, upstanding,...