I am angry, and have been for days. This time the reason was not the catastrophic, bleeding injustice of what is happening day after day to our Palestinian brothers and sisters in the Middle East. They will understandably sigh at our domestic plight, given their immense pain, suffering and the world’s criminal indifference to their survival. But this is not to undermine the global seriousness of the state of the Ummah; rather, it is a recognition that the very same malice that is destroying Palestine and its people is being allowed to fester unchecked on the streets of Europe.

Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, warned explicitly against reckless anger, famously stating in a narration found in Sahih al-Bukhari that, “The strong man is not the one who can wrestle, but the one who can control himself when he is angry.” So, I have stepped away from my laptop several times since Friday evening while I seek to master my temper. Now, I feel ready to speak with a clear mind and a righteous anger driven purely to seek justice and truth, and to defend the oppressed.

Let us strip away the polite political euphemisms and confront the ugly, bleeding truth: across Europe and the West, Muslim lives are treated as cheap, disposable, second-class currency. The evidence is not subtle. It is written in blood on our streets, in the charred remains of our places of worship, and in the deafening, complicit silence of our state institutions and media networks.

It will no doubt come as news to some of you that, on Friday night, in Edinburgh, a white supremacist went on the rampage with a multi-site stabbing spree, hunting down and plunging blades into five people while screaming anti-Muslim slurs.

There were no ministerial photo ops and wall-to-wall media coverage; no calls for revenge; and definitely no anti-white riots of the kind we saw in Belfast recently against foreigners.

There were no ministerial photo ops and wall-to-wall media coverage; no calls for revenge; and definitely no anti-white riots of the kind we saw in Belfast recently against foreigners.

This was nothing new. Does anyone recall the incident at the Manchester Central Mosque on 24 February this year, when a man armed with an axe and a cache of weapons entered the building with the intention of slaughtering people in prayer.........

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