The Guardian, Britain's leading left-wing newspaper, has--naturally!--a policy of "diversity" in hiring newsroom staff.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)

The Guardian, Britain's leading left-wing newspaper, has--naturally!--a policy of "diversity" in hiring newsroom staff. One of their recent "diversity" hires was a bright 22-year-old named Dilpazier Aslam, a British-born person of the Muslim persuasion. A few days after the London bombings, Aslam wrote a nasty little column taking a moral-equivalence line on the attacks, with many indignant references to Fallujah and the weeping mothers of Iraq. Young British Muslims, Aslam exulted, are much more willing to rock the boat (a euphemism, presumably, for "blow up the bus") than their cowed, compromising elders. A few days later we learned from an Internet blogger--and the Guardian ...