IN a perverse way I enjoy reading the outpourings of Peter Mullen.
He seems to want a permanent crusade against the Muslims and produces his summary of historical military encounters between Christians and Muslims (Echo, Oct 1).
I heartily agree with what he has to say about David Cameron and Barack Obama, who can be carried by the wind in any direction, but Reverend Mullen’s prescription has been carried out repeatedly in history and just leads to more turmoil.
He would do well to listen to what Baroness Warsi had to say about the Conservative Party and ethnic-minority voters.
Many are in personal and economic circumstances which would make them natural Conservative voters but the Conservative Party antagonises them. The baroness is a Muslim and is not likely to be recruited for any jihad I don’t care how many natural allies the Conservatives antagonise.
My historical loyalties are to the Kent preacher John Balls during the peasants’ revolt: “By what right do those who call themselves our lords say they are better men than we?”
I am for the Labour Party when it remembers its origins.
G Bulmer, Billingham
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