.... Islamophobia is the moral blind spot of 21st-century Britain. Warsi got the emphasis wrong in placing responsibility for this at the door of hostility to religion per se – though the tone of that debate is sometimes a proxy for much uglier sentiments.
David Hume was right: reason is a slave to the passions, especially our darker ones. The real driver is that otherwise polite people have given themselves permission to be racist. Now is the time to disturb the cosy rules of the dinner party and speak up against the bigots. There may well be a row. You might not get invited back. But so what?
[COMMENT] Rubbish. Stop trying to confuse the issue. Islam is a nonethnically homogeneous religion. What people who object to Islam object to are a) Its objectionable practices and beliefs and b) Its militancy. Get that though your head and stop defending a homophobic, mysognistic, racist creed. [22 Jan. Guardian Cif] Read more
