Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Nah, sorry. Salman Rushdie was the canary in this particular coalmine. We watched a community in this country call for a man to be killed for blasphemy and threatened to the point that the state had to protect him full-time and it didn't wake us up to the fact that something had gone very, very wrong in our muslim population. That was in 1989. We pussyfooted around them then and they saw we were weak.
That's a fair point in terms of demonstrating the touchy sensitivity, murderous fanaticism and intolerance of apostacy, but you can trace all that back a very long way. Probably to the start, in fact.