Both Reform and Conservatives are now officially Islamophobic

 After 9/11, when George W Bush declared a war on terror, he at first described it as a crusade. European leaders, and especially Tony Blair, warned him against that. The crusades were a religious war, a clash of civilisations, and that was not what the war on terror was supposed to be about. Unfortunately the US media took no notice, in part because a clash of civilisations was easier to write about than, for example, the politics of the Israel/Palestine conflict. A key component of tigh...