“Islamophobia? It seems as if we are suffering more from Muslim-mania – an unhealthy obsession with all things Islamic, and a paranoid fixation with looking at the world from behind a veil…. Jacqui Smith has even officially renamed Islamic terrorism as ‘anti-Islamic activity’. Never mind walking Hackney’s mean streets, the Home Secretary appears most scared of treading on Muslim toes.”

Times, 29 January 2008