清楚解析當前英國社會的穆斯林議題:面紗、犯罪者、伊斯蘭法、伊斯蘭銀行與清真食物。
In Britain, there is now a cycle of Islamic scare stories so
regular that it is almost comforting, like the changing of the seasons. Sadly,
this rotation is not as natural, or as benign, although it is beginning to feel
just as inevitable. We had the niqab winter last year, as the country lurched into the
niqab debate for the second time in three years. Now we are in the spring of
halal slaughter.
Add to this schedule the routine reports
about gender segregation in UK universities and Muslim schools (as
if the concept of gender segregation was somehow exotic to non-faith schools
in the UK), claims of grand plans to
"overthrow" non-Muslim heads of certain schools and you
have a steady flow of creeping sharia messages, stoking a fear of a stealthy, incremental
Islamicisation.
Channel 4's Ramadan coverage last year drew 2,011 complaints,
the majority objecting to the broadcast of the call to prayer, a two-minute transmission.
This reflects an increasing nationwide umbrage towards visible British Muslims,
informed by repetitive stories that inaccurately amplify their religiously
motivated activity.