The Queen: putting Britain in danger

What a week for the Blair haters. Now they haven't just got meaty accusations such as him being a war criminal and a dictator to gorge themselves upon, they can also now jeer at him for losing the vote in the House last week. Knock yourselves out guys.

But it seems in their desperate lust for the blood of the Prime Minister all these years, they've missed something quite important. All this time they've been blaming Blair for everything, when in fact there's another British figure they can also wet their pants over hating - the Queen.

Yup, it seems that al Qaeda has pronounced the Queen as "one of the severest enemies of Islam". It's just been revealed that in the video message released by al Qaeda after the July bombings in London, that Ayman al-Zawahri denounced the queen, stating that she is ultimately responsible for Britain's "crusader laws", and calling her the enemy of Muslims.

You got that people? It's not just Blair we've got to blame for the terrorist attacks in London - it's also her Majesty! My God! If only we'd known we'd have had her head off years ago!

Of course, people like myself who tend to blame al Qaeda for al Qaeda attacks, won't be swayed by this revelation. I no more think that a posh old woman pottering about in wellies is to blame for the terrorist attacks than I am for walking about with my head uncovered, but that's just me.

But of course there are those who fell upon Mohammad Sidique Khan's video and his mention of the Iraq war as proof that Blair was personally responsible for the attacks. I presume now then that those same people will heap upon the Queen the same naked hatred they heap upon Blair. I'll expect a protest movement and rallies through London anyday now, demanding the Queen and her office be removed for the safety of the British public. Musn't be doing anything that upsets those Islamasists now must we? And if they find the Queen offensive, then who are we to argue, right?

How far, I wonder, would they have us go, those who simply cannot blame anybody but ourselves for the civilians we lost in the July terrorist attacks? If you thought Blair should go, then now the Queen must go to. Because you can't pick and choose the choicest bits from al Qaeda's book of hate. You can't just read along to the passages you like and then turn the pages of the ones you don't. You have to swallow it whole, chapter and verse, and try not to choke whilst you're doing it.