It’s particularly repellent when Muslim women respond to criticism of the misogyny of radical Islam by denying there’s any repression—and by spouting the same lunatic victimhood as their mujahideen brothers: Muslims are the new Jews. (Hat tip: Killian Bundy.)

Especially since July 7 [when British Muslims carried out an appalling act of mass murder —ed.], it has become acceptable to say the most ignorant, degrading things about Islam. And then we all sit around wondering why young Muslim men appear to be getting angrier and more politicised [“criticize us and we’ll turn violent!” —ed], or why “westernised” young Muslim women whose mothers go bare-headed are suddenly, defiantly, opting for the full-on niqab-style veil that leaves only a slit for the eyes [“criticize us and we’ll repress ourselves even more!” —ed.].

I am particularly irked by ancient old “feminists” wheeling out themselves and their 30-years-out-of-date opinions to reiterate the old chestnut that Islam, by its nature, oppresses women (unlike the Bible, eh,?) and that the veil compounds the blanket oppression.

In their view all Muslim women are crushed because they can’t wear visible lipstick or flash their thongs [really? is that what they’re saying? —ed.]. Does it occur to these idiots that not necessarily everyone swoons with admiration at the fact that they have won the freedom to dress like 55-year-old slappers?