I think I get asked to appear on NPR, oh, every other decade or so, so I was tickled to find that, though I was not present in person, my notorious hatemongering was the subject of discussion on today’s edition of On The Media. Naseem Mithoowani was given eight minutes to put her side of the story on my “flagrant Islamophobia”, and, despite a skeptical host not entirely on board with the idea of government micro-regulating the content of media outlets, she managed to get in most of the talking-points, including yet another casual attribution to me of the “breeding like mosquitoes” line.

For the umpteenth time, they were the words of Mullah Krekar, a famous Norwegian imam. If she’s got a problem with that statement, she should take it up with her fellow Muslim – although the mullah may be rather less amenable to giving her face time than my editors were.