the irony being that nirpal dhaliwal made an entire career out of being 'victimised' by liz jones in her column.
it would be a mistake to presume that because nirpal is muslim he has any kind of privileged insight. after all,
he does live in a world of his own. perhaps--rather than identifying that, yes, paranoid delusions about an oppressive, omnipresent power (like The West) help people (like young muslims) to structure a reality in which their powerlessness has a responsible, culpable agency--he should be asking why these people feel powerless in the first place. jonathan evans is perfectly correct to ask for a better understanding of the 'root causes' here, and it is a testament to nirpals ignorance that he thinks it is merely a fad.
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