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==''Kilroy'' and 'anti-Arab' controversy==
His show ''Kilroy'', started on [[24 November]] [[1986]] as ''Day To Day'' and ran until [[2004]], when the programme was cancelled by the [[BBC]] after an article entitled 'We owe Arabs nothing' by Kilroy-Silk[http://www.caabu.org/campaigns/kilroy-article.html] was published in the ''[[Sunday Express]]'' on [[January 4]]. The article had originally been published in [[April 2003]] by the same paper and 'republished in error' according to Kilroy-Silk [http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1055475/posts], although during its first incarnation the article failed to attract the same furore from the national press or provoke any (ostensible) disciplinary action from the BBC. While the article attacks the [[human rights]] record of Arab states, it also makes little distinction between this and Arabic people in general (whom Kilroy has, in a BBC [[Hard Talk]] interview erroneously associated with [[Afghans]], demonstrating - according to critics like Emeka Onono - a general ignorance about Arabs
:'We're told that the Arabs loathe us. Really? For [[2003_invasion_of_Iraq|liberating the Iraqis]]? For subsidising the lifestyles of people in [[Egypt]] and [[Jordan]], to name but two, for giving them vast amounts of aid? For providing them with [[science]], [[medicine]], [[technology]] and all the other benefits of the West? They should go down on their knees and thank God for the munificence of the United States. What do they think we feel about them? That we adore them for the way they murdered more than 3,000 civilians on [[September 11, 2001 attacks|September 11]] and then danced in the hot, dusty streets to celebrate the murders? That we admire them for the cold-blooded killings in [[Mombasa]], [[Yemen]] and elsewhere? That we admire them for being [[Suicide_bombing|suicide bombers]], [[amputation|limb-amputators]], women repressors?'
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