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The King’s (Islamophobic) Speech

March 4, 2011 islamoyankee

National Security — The King’s (Islamophobic) Speech.

King’s public statements have revealed a deeply Islamophobic and paranoid streak in his thinking, and his list of proposed witnesses has shown a brazen anti-Islamic slant.

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