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The Daily Mail is a British newspaper, currently a tabloid, first published in 1896. It is Britain's most popular paper after The Sun and arguably the most right-wing. Its sister paper, the Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982, and an Irish version of the paper was launched on 6 February 2006. The Daily Mail was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at what is now considered the middle-market and the first to sell 1 million copies a day.
The Mail was originally a broadsheet, but switched to its current tabloid format on 3 May 1971, on the 75th anniversary of its founding (on this date it also absorbed the Daily Sketch, which had previously been published as a tabloid by the same company). Its chief rival, the Daily Express, has a similar political stance and target audience, but sells fewer than half as many copies. As of 2005 the publisher of the Mail, the Daily Mail and General Trust, is a FTSE 100 company and the paper has a circulation of more than two million, the second largest circulation of any English language daily newspaper, and the twelfth highest of any newspaper.
The paper was accused of warmongering before the outbreak of World War I, when it reported that Germany was planning to crush the British Empire. Northcliffe created controversy by advocating conscription when the war broke out. On 21 May 1915, Northcliffe wrote a blistering attack on Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War. Kitchener was considered a national hero, and overnight the paper's circulation dropped from 1,386,000 to 238,000. 1,500 members of the London Stock Exchange ceremonially burned the unsold copies and launched a boycott against the Harmsworth Press. Prime Minister H. H. Asquith accused the paper of being disloyal to the country.
In 1924 the Daily Mail published the forged Zinoviev Letter which indicated that British Communists were planning violent Revolution. It was widely believed that this was a significant factor in the defeat of Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Party in the 1924 general election, held four days later. (In some Labour circles, eg by former Labour leader Michael Foot, the paper is often referred to as 'The Forgers' Journal')
In early 1934 Rothermere and the Mail were sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists. Rothermere wrote an article, Hurrah for the Blackshirts, in January 1934, in which he praised Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine", though after the violence of the 1934 Olympia meeting involving the BUF the Mail withdrew its support for Mosley.
Rothermere was a friend and supporter of both Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, which influenced the Mail's political stance toward them up to 1939. During this period it was the only British newspaper to consistently support the German Nazi Party. Rothermere visited and corresponded with Hitler on many occasions; on 1 Oct 1938, Rothermere sent him a telegram in support of Germany's invasion of the Sudetenland, and expressing the hope that 'Adolf the Great' would become a popular figure in England.
In 1937, the Mail's Chief Correspondent G. Ward Price, to whom Mussolini once personally wrote in support of him and the newspaper, published a book, I Know These Dictators, in defence of Hitler and Mussolini.
"Daily Mail reader" has become something of a phrase in its own right in the UK, as has its nickname 'The Daily Hell'. The stereotypical Daily Mail reader is characterised as an insular, homophobic, aspiring middle-class conservative who lacks the intelligence to read the broadsheet equivalent the Daily Telegraph, and is stuck in the past. A roughly opposite stereotype to "Daily Mail reader" is the "Guardian reader" (denoting left-wing intellectuals); this epitomises the conflict between the classic right- and left-wing viewpoints in British middle-class society.
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Originally posted by mr conspiracy
Terrorists, and proud of it.
Thats the message of the report below.
Shocked?
UK has 3 million muslim citizens.
Islam is gaining converts from all quaters. This is a nightmare senario.
Dr Bari declared... "If that demonisation continues, then Britain will have to deal with two million Muslim terrorists..."
The message from Dr Bari appeared to .... contain a measure of exaggeration - according to the last national census, there are fewer than 1.6 million Muslims in the country.
"If you attack a whole community, it becomes despondent and aggressive."
"When the IRA was blowing people up, the entire Catholic population of Britain was not demonised, so why is it happening to the Muslim community?"
Muslims can be divided into two camps:active terrorists or syphertetic to the cause,period!
Originally posted by infinite
two words
Daily Mail. enough said.
those guys supported Hitler and Mosley
Originally posted by D4rk Kn1ght
"When the IRA was blowing people up, the entire Catholic population of Britain was not demonised, so why is it happening to the Muslim community?"
On the other hand the Quran, Hadiths, and surras, contains not only many justifications for violence, but explicit exhortations by Muhammad himself to engage in violence in order to spread islam.
Originally posted by mr conspiracy
Terrorists, and proud of it.
Treating all Muslims as if they were terrorists will encourage large numbers to become terrorists, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari said.
Islam is gaining converts from all quaters. This is a nightmare senario.
Originally posted by ThinksYouAreAnIdiot
Because, whether you want to admit it or nor, there is virtually no theological basis in christianity for violence, whereas there is massive theological justification for violence in islam.
Originally posted by bodrul
have you read the quran?
if people care to read something before they open their mouths then they woud know more.
the only times the quran allows violance is when one if being prosicuted and not allowed to practice their faith,
it may have a few verses that can be manipulated to ones intrest (which most use to justify the actions of a few)
if you want i will post a link to a translated quran (which is reliable) unlike the one some people use here (no offence skeptic)