Fabian UK out-Islams the Muslim Brotherhood |
So, the United Arab Emirates has decided to protect its Muslim youth from radicalisation by discouraging them from studying at British universities. That is, Fabian surrealism, groomed at home by woke cosplaying as governance, is finally colliding with the real world abroad.
And like any decent farce, the joke lies in the reversal: when a Gulf state concludes that the safest way to preserve religious moderation is to keep its students away from Britain, you know that the nation that once exported administrative sobriety has achieved a rare feat of cultural inversion.
Alas, the instinctive British response still does not get the point. Officials speak of academic freedom, universities issue pious statements about inclusion, and nobody pauses to enjoy the comic precision of the charge. The UAE is not accusing Britain of Islamophobia. Quite the opposite. Britain, in Emirati eyes, has become excessively enthusiastic, dangerously indulgent, and recklessly naïve in its handling of Islamist currents. To protect Muslims, they must now be protected from Britain.
That is the core of the embarrassment. British campuses have spent years presenting themselves as the safest possible environment for Muslim students, padded with trigger warnings, sensitivity training, and an allergy to judgement. The result has been a culture........