“Muslims who choose to live in the West must accept that we, too, have a right to our values, and to live according to them. Muslims must accept the predominant mores of their adopted culture…. Those Muslims who cannot tolerate the openness and robustness of intellectual debate in the West have perhaps chosen to live in the wrong culture.”

Thus an editorial on the Danish cartoons controversy in the Daily Telegraph, 3 February 2006

Note the familiar use of “we”, evidently referring to the white majority community. “We” are to be distinguished from Muslims, who are presumably to be categorised as “them”. Muslims are instructed that they “must accept” the dominant non-Muslim culture, and are told that, if they refuse to do so, they should go back where they came from.

The Guardian is much more measured: “Yesterday’s acquittal of two British National party officials on race hatred charges for attacking Islam – and the triumphalist scenes as the two freed men emerged from court – are part of the context that must be weighed in asserting any right to publish cartoons that offend Muslims. So too is the political situation in Denmark itself, where the cartoons were first published, and where a large and strongly anti-immigrant party provides part of the parliamentary coalition supporting Denmark’s centre-right government. What is the message that is being sent, both in the BNP acquittal context and in the Danish context, by insisting on publishing such images? Those questions cannot be ducked – and nor can the answers.”

Editorial in Guardian, February 2006