反向證明伊斯蘭恐懼症存在於英國的例子
Imagine in one of London’s
central districts, a Muslim group representing a significant
section of the local community puts up notices before a street event
telling women to confine themselves to one side of the road only.
The posters, in Arabic and English, state: “Women should please walk along this
side of the road only.”
How much coverage in the UK media do
you think this would receive? Would we see articles about Muslims trying to
bring sharia law to the streets of London? Would
commentators fall over themselves to decry Islam as a religion of extremism and
intolerance? Would our media and politicians call on Muslim leaders to denounce
such primitive practices?
From long experience, we all know the
answer.
So how to
explain the near-silence about exactly this happening last week in the
London district of Hackney, except that religious
Jews rather than Muslims were the party responsible. The Shomrim
organisation put up the signs in preparation for the Torah
procession in Stamford Hill. The posters were removed after local residents
complained.