"Can't quite make out what you mean by this"
Simple enough Mike - Keith has been hiding behind invented non-existent statements by Jack Straw.... et al - because of their claimed expertise and experience
You have now joined him in his Islamophobic campaign, putting up the same people - yet, when what they actually said is put up, your response is "they would say that, wouldn't they"
You really can't have it both ways - they are either experts whose word is to be relied on, or they are not to be trusted.
Academic as far as their opinions anyway - they were a figment of Keith's imagination - any shame here should be yours for going along with such a clumsy and disgusting campaign aimed at demonising an entire racial/cultural group - but as you say - I don't expect you are.   
"I expect Jim is going to denounce that as a racist remark..."
I really do know a racist when I see one - Keith is one, you are a bigot who defends racism.
For the record - I find all football equally boring.
Are you going to deal with the points I have made about culture?
I've given up on the idea that you might want to discuss Britain, and the West's role in encouraging groups of Islamic fundamentalists for their own interests
I hope you are keeping a close eye on your ward before he gets himself into even hotter water and has to open up yet another Islamophobic thread to extract himself - two at the same time are more than enough to handle - he has never done too well with one.
"[I am being serious]"
I was not, nay more than I believe you are when you fly into one of your somewhat embarrassing baby-talking hissy-fits   
It was a flippant remark aimed at your own behaviour here, nothing more.
I owe much my of deeper involvement in folk music to a mutual friend and Cambridge graduate, Bob Thomson - someone who I have the deepest respect for.
You on the other hand.....
Please stop trying to smear me with your and Keith's own racist and cultural bigotry - your really are a unique pair - at least I've never come across such vitriolic hatred elsewhere from adults.
Jim Carroll