It turns out that I have found something to agree with Keir Starmer about. During Ramadan this year, the prime minister described Muslims as “the face of modern Britain.” I think that is correct. Whether it is also something to be happy about is another question. The PM, for his part, couldn’t be more pleased. Muslims in Britain, he went on to say, are “a success story when it comes to diversity.” Was that qualification—“when it comes to diversity”—a nod to reality? Or was it merely his capitulation to some sort of self-imposed linguistic quota according to which he must punctuate two out of three pronouncements with the word “diversity” or go without his pudding?
The jury is still out on that. But it is clear that the prime minister is very concerned about linguistic rectitude. For the last couple of years he has been trying to come up with a definition of “Islamophobia” that he could get past the troublesome partisans of free speech and enroll on the statute books as a hate crime. To date, he has had to compromise and substitute “anti-Muslim hostility” for the crisper-sounding “Islamophobia.”
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