If you're boorish enough to draw attention to such unpleasantness, you'll be committing a hate crime, and Cameron's even squishier successors will explain why there's "no right to shout fire in a crowded theatre", which is a polite way of saying we can't afford this freedom-of-expression stuff, but will be an even more impenetrable metaphor by then, because a Muslim city won't have theatres, or a music scene. But it's possible to foresee a moment when the British Government concludes that the Slavic and Central Asian dosh isn't worth the trouble, and erects severe obstacles to any more of their ilk settling in the United Kingdom. To entertain the faint, furtive thought that becoming 15, 20, 30 per cent Muslim might not be a good idea would be less a rebuke to Islam than to the animating spirit of post-war western elites.
Author: Mark Steyn
Published at: 2025-11-07 14:00:00
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