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Thu 3 Feb 2005 4:11pm (UK) Man Discharged after Manure Attack on Kilroy-Silk By Pat Hurst, PA A man who covered TV pundit and politician Robert Kilroy-Silk with a bucket of manure walked free from court today. David McGrath, 37, was given a conditional discharge by JPs at Manchester Magistrates Court. Unemployed McGrath, of Wilmslow, Cheshire threw the bucket of slurry over Mr Kilroy-Silk because of his disparaging comments about Arabs and Muslims, the court heard. McGrath pleaded guilty to three charges of causing criminal damage and one public order offence following the attack in Manchester on December 3 last...

PROTESTER COVERS KILROY-SILK IN SLURRY LONDON (Reuters) - Broadcaster-turned-politician Robert Kilroy-Silk, who lost his television show this year after making controversial remarks about Arabs, has been showered in slurry by a protester who said he was acting in the name of Islam. The BBC said the attack occurred when Kilroy-Silk, a European parliament member representing the UK Independence Party, arrived on Friday night for the radio show "Any Questions?" in Manchester, northern England. A transcript of the radio programme quoted Kilroy-Silk as saying the attacker, who disappeared, had said he was "doing it in the name of Islam". "That's what...

Robert Kilroy-Silk will not face prosecution over his inflammatory Sunday Express article condemning the Arab people as "limb-amputators and women repressors", it was revealed today. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) declared it could not establish that Mr Kilroy-Silk, who was forced to quit his lucrative daytime BBC TV show after the piece appeared and has since become an MEP for the Europhobic UK Independence party, had intended to stir up racial hatred with the article. However, it did find that the piece, entitled "We Owe Arabs Nothing", was insulting and abusive to Arab people. Sue Taylor, head of division for...

Britain's hottest export to the continent, the UK Independence party, pledged to fight for an "amicable divorce" from the European Union when its new MEPs visited the European parliament yesterday. Robert Kilroy Silk insisted he did not intend to wreck the union's only directly-elected institution. But he was "not interested in making it work" and would spend as little time there as possible. "Our prime task is to get our country back from Brussels. That is why we are here. We have no other function, no other purpose. We want to govern ourselves." Nigel Farage, leader of the 12 Ukip...

KILROY: BEEB HAS GIVEN IN Television presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk says the BBC has "given way" to a lobby demanding his resignation. The Corporation has suspended his talk show while there is an investigation into anti-Arab comments in a newspaper report. Mr Kilroy-Silk said he had hoped the Corporation would have "kept the programme going and dealt with the criticisms". The 61-year-old caused a furore last week in his Sunday Express column by describing Arabs as "suicide bombers, limb-amputators, women repressors". Speaking on Tonight with Trevor McDonald, on ITV1 tonight, Mr Kilroy-Silk admitted he was in a "difficult position". However, he...

The Americans have Daniel Pipe, the Dutch had Pim Fortuyn, the French have Brigit Bardot, the Italians have Oriana Fallaci, and the British have Robert Kilroy-Silk. They are all anti-Islamic bigots, zealots, extremists and fanatics, driven by their intense hatred and racism. The words of such people have contributed towards the legitimisation of the violence inflicted in place like Iraq. Furthermore, it encourages brutality amongst their soldiers, no surprise to hear the incident of an Iraqi prisoner viciously kicked to death. One can only imagine, all the other cases that do not get reported. Torture and execution has become routine...

The British Broadcasting Corporation ["BBC" -- uk-Taxpayer-funded Propaganda Arm of the uk's Labour Party -- B A] suspended its Kilroy programme yesterday after the "Muslim Council of Great Britain" and "other groups" professed "outrage" that the presenter, Robert Kilroy-Silk, had written a newspaper article which, the protesters claimed, "attacked Arabs." Yesterday's edition of the BBC daytime discussion show went ahead but it will not appear from Monday while allegations of racism over the article in the Sunday Express are investigated. Embarrassingly for all involved, it emerged that Kilroy-Silk, a regular columnist, actually wrote the piece for the paper nine months...