Breeding antagonism

Surf the discussion threads this weekend and you’ll read bumper levels of invective aimed at Muslims and Islam, fuelled by this kind of reporting. It’s not difficult to find examples of real hatred, of furiously resentful people. The level of antagonism seems so out of proportion – after all, Islam isn’t taking over the UK, [...]

Muslims under Attack

Yet he uses the issue of cousin marriages to justify bashing specifically Muslims (even more specifically Pakistanis), without acknowledging the greater public health concern is arranged marriages among Uncle-Niece couples that is still occasionally practiced among Hindus (even though illegal in India since 1955, it is not universally enforced). Indeed, Islam does not allow Uncle-Niece [...]