On January 11 2015, I was one of two million people who marched slowly and silently through Paris to honour the memory of the people slaughtered days earlier for being blasphemers and Jewish.
It was an extraordinary day, an emotional one, too, soured only a little by the sight of presidents and prime ministers at the head of the march. These were the people who for years had been pretending there wasn’t a problem with the rise throughout the West of political Islam. Now, following the murder of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and the shoppers in the Kosher supermarket, they had muscled their way to the front to claim they were the standard-bearers of liberty in the fight against an evil ideology.
Among those present in Paris were David Cameron and Theresa May, then Prime Minister and Home Secretary, members of a government which had until recently included Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the first Muslim Cabinet minister.
On the day of the march in Paris Warsi wrote
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