Mick Hartley

Twenty years ago today, I left work early and hurried home to be with my husband as it became clear that London had been attacked by members of a murdered Islamist death cult. In the days that followed, a formula that would become all too familiar after many further atrocities…

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Twenty years ago today, I left work early and hurried home to be with my husband as it became clear that London had been attacked by members of a murdered Islamist death cult. In the days that followed, a formula that would become all too familiar after many further atrocities was deployed: keep calm, carry on, don't let the terrorists divide us and let's do everything we can to avert the tsunami of Islamophobia these events would undoubtedly unleash among the lower orders.
The tsunami never came; in all of the 20 intervening years, it's never happened, even in spite of there having been so many Islamist attacks, I've lost track.
And yet, now we have a government trying to create a new definition of Islamophobia while allowing rampant Jew-hatred to be paraded through the streets of London every week. We have a man convicted of burning a Koran as if blasphemy laws existed in this country. We have ministers so in thrall to the Muslim vote, they had to be dragged kicking and screaming into setting up a national inquiry into Pakistani-dominated grooming gangs. We may be safer, on the whole, than we were on 7/7/2005, but we seem to have learned little else.