Like a great many other controversies, this one stems from the impressive determination of freerange Muslim “communities” to take charge of their immediate surroundings by any means necessary. I was already mulling over the performative circus of vote-casting when the “Muslim Vote” suddenly became an electoral hot-potato.
There’s nothing like blood in the water to bring sharks to the surface, but so far the upcoming Rochdale by-election doesn’t seem to have attracted any Great Whites. Perhaps because the blood is being spilled over 2000 miles away. On paper, this minor election has somehow devolved into a pro-Palestine toss-up between front-line Muslim sympathiser Azhar Ali and a back-door Islamophile called George Galloway.
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