Marchers, rioters and McDowell share the shame
First, President McAleese shamed us all by siding with Saudi fundamentalism against the enlightened Danes. Now Michael McDowell claims that the anti-Orange riot was ‘sectarian’.
Protesting against the Orange Order is sectarian? What kind of topsy-turvy world does McDowell inhabit? The answer is a multi-cultural world, where all beliefs are equal and reason has no privileged place. If the rioters had actually cloaked their anger in the garb of a ‘deeply-held religious belief’ would the tabloids and phone-in radio have felt so free to use the words ‘scum’ and ‘skanger’?
