Charities, Thinktanks and Book Burning: Dale's Glass House Stoned Again

Iain Dale is getting some stick in the comments on this story where he reports that the charity Commission may get busy over the charitable status of the King Fahd Academy which stills stocks some books with rude things about Christians and Jews in their pages.

Apparently Iain doesn't think this is fair enough considering the regular content of our own media, when they aren't getting all PC over Jade Goody and Shilpa Shetty. I agree. However the school's offer to cut out the offending pages rather than letting booklover Iain Dale burn the books may be a sufficient remedy and a lesson learned.

Iain is taking some stick because he is a Trustee of an apparently politically motivated "Charity" - The Policy Exchange - which has exclusively Tory associates and trustees. He has been attacking The Smith Institute which appears similar if a little less party political, and now the Fahd. Something about glass houses and stones again springs to mind.

Labour of Love says: Pull charitable status from all independent schools. It's not like top english public schools haven't been filling young heads with largely Tory tosh for centuries. You only have to look at that rapscallion Cameron and that jackanape Johnson for evidence of the fuddled and erratic thinking induced behind the bike sheds of Eton, Harrow etc.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? ... Now? ... How about Now? ... And Now?

Here is a note of a meeting at the Saudi Embassy on No Place for Radicalism in Islam which Iain might read now he is finished Blunkett's bletherings.