Why the elites are terrified of talking about radical Islam

'Islamism' is the great unutterable in 21st-century Britain. Representatives of the state have even flirted with erasing the i-word from public discourse – remember when counter-terrorist police considered ditching phrases like 'Islamist terrorism' and 'jihadis' and replacing them with 'faith-claimed terrorism' and 'terrorists abusing religious motivations'? In the end, such brazen Orwellian meddling in everyday speech wasn't necessary. Instead, as Anderson found out, an informal moratorium on open chatter about Islamism has been enforced by our fretful cultural elite, who wield the charge of 'Islamophobe' against anyone who asks too many questions or feels too many feelings about the scourge of radical Islam.

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