Try to take this in. In England, in 2025, police are pandering to the religious whims of an aspiring Islamic State soldier. Like a sad tribute act to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, they replaced a ‘sinful’ image of a female terrorist with a halal one in which her features were hidden beneath black cloth in the fashion of hardcore Islam. We all know Britain’s cops have lost the plot, but doing the pious bidding of an extremist who dreamed of joining the mass murderers of ISIS? That’s a new low.
Discussion
This case raises so many troubling questions about 21st-century Britain. It reminds us there are people in our midst so consumed by hatred for the UK, and the West more broadly, that they dream of joining our implacable foes in the Christophobic, misogynistic, savagely intolerant army of IS. And it confirms that our institutions of state are now so far down the well of self-hating moral relativism that they’re willing to appease the feelings of a woman found guilty of terror offences. A woman who wanted to submit to the Islamist tyranny. A woman who even fantasised about sacrificing her own kids in the name of Islamo-fascism. In what kind of messed-up country do the nutty sensitivities of a woman like that trump the hard-won right of ordinary citizens to see the face of a person convicted of terror?