he relentless growth of multiculturalism across twenty-first-century Europe has had many unexpected consequences—one of the most unexpected being the sudden explosion in belief in genies.
Known in Arabic as ‘djinn’ (singular = djinni), genies are repeatedly mentioned in the Quran and are a required element of belief for all good Muslims. This explains how, last month, a case was able to come before a British court in which a London imam was convicted for the crime, hitherto wholly alien to UK shores, of pretending to be a genie, thereby tricking a series of underage girls into having illegal sex with him in the back of his car.
