by Andrew Doyle, Telegraph
We might be sleepwalking into a future in which religious conflicts become significant drivers in the political sphere
Woke is on the way out. The scandal of “gender-affirming medicine” continues to be exposed; multiple sporting bodies have barred trans-identifying males from competing in female categories; the Black Lives Matter movement has been largely discredited due to revelations of fraud; and corporate DEI initiatives are being dismantled quicker than you can say “intersectional paradigms of structural oppression”.
But what comes next? […] Is it not feasible, in other words, that a radical shift in demographics could result in citizens voting for less freedom?
The fear is not as histrionic as it sounds. A recent poll by the Henry Jackson Society found that 52 per cent of British Muslims would make it illegal to display an image of the Prophet Mohammed. A further 32 per cent would like to see the implementation of Sharia law, and the same proportion would support establishing Islam as the national religion.
An extensive survey conducted for Channel 4 in 2016 found that 39 per cent of British Muslims believed that wives should always be obedient to husbands, 31 per cent agreed that bigamy was acceptable, 47 per cent said that gay people should never be allowed to teach in schools, and 52 per cent thought that homosexuality ought to be criminalised.
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