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Another painful lesson. (London journal).

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| November 01, 2001 | Gross, John | COPYRIGHT 2001 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

You start thinking you can't be surprised anymore--not when it comes to left-wing opinion-makers, at least--but you end up being surprised nonetheless. Most of their reactions are predictable in broad outline; but reality has a way of going one better, or one worse.

Two days after the assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, BBC television broadcast that week's edition of the current affairs program "Question Time," a panel discussion with questions and comments from the floor. Almost at once it became clear that the audience contained a large contingent of Muslim extremists and left-wing sympathizers, who proceeded to hijack the program. Instead of ...

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