“Islamophobia”

Let me begin by quoting the brilliant Mr. Bean, AKA Rowan Atkinson:

“To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.”

Let’s get on with critiquing the world’s most troublesome religion. As is our right and obligation.

On Monday, the Communities Secretary Steve Reed rose in the House of Commons to unveil ‘Protecting What Matters’, the government’s new ‘action plan’ to ‘strengthen social cohesion’ and ‘tackle division’. According to the accompanying press release: ‘Millions of families, friends and neighbours will feel a stronger sense of community, unity and national pride thanks to renewed efforts to stamp out extremism, hate and division announced today.’

I was not among those millions. Conspicuous by omission in the announcement was any mention of Islamism. The impression given by the minister was that ‘those who try to divide us’ and ‘subvert our shared values’ are not the Muslim students mourning the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader or people like Mothin Ali, the deputy leader of the Green party, who tweeted on the day Hamas slaughtered 1,200 Jews: ‘White supremacist European settler colonialism must end!’ Instead, it is politicians like Nigel Farage and Katie Lam who draw attention to the small boats and the grooming gangs.

THIS IS where we are in the UK. Muslims take over Trafalgar Square for open-air prayers. It’s a display designed to intimidate all non-Muslims. It’s a ritual of conquest. It’s saying ‘we control this country’. It’s a warning to anyone who isn’t Muslim.

The Muslim Mayor of London gives this official support and protection. Of course he does. Taxpayers’ money is spent protecting these people as they take over one of the most iconic public spaces in London.

Good on Nick Timothy for smoking out the hypocrisy, muddled thinking and cant that obscures the debate over Islamism in Britain. He must have known the furore that would follow when he branded the Muslim prayer session in Trafalgar Square an ‘act of domination’. He must have known it would attract the worst and weakest criticisms from the worst and weakest people. And lo it came to pass.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani joins a crowd of Muslims who took over Prospect Park and held a public prayer session.

This is New York City now.pic.twitter.com/MolkeCbNHt

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 20, 2026

Would you rather live in a society where a man is free to criticise religious practices or one where such a man might be dragged to the public square to be damned and shamed as a blasphemer? For me it’s a no-brainer. It’s the former. I want the freedom to object, as scurrilously as I like, to every pious ritual and godly doctrine. We used to call it ‘freedom of thought’, and our ancestors gave their lives to gift us that most cherished of liberties.

It’s the Islamic holy month, when it’s a terrible insult to Muslims who are praying and fasting to bomb a rogue state that threatens the U.S. and its allies, right? Ilhan Omar said that. Yet as Ramadan draws to a close this year, the jihad death toll worldwide is 499 infidels murdered in 133 jihad attacks. No adherents of any other religion, or even any “right-wing extremists,” committed any terror attacks during this period.

Muslims in Britain have a more favourable view of Communist China, Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and the theocratic Islamist regime in Iran than the United States, a poll has found.

According to a survey by JL Partners for the Policy Exchange Think Tank, which polled a nationally representative sample of 2,223 adults in Britain, as well as 1,031 Muslims living in the UK, found a stark difference in worldview.