Since the present UK government and the one major opposition political party both support Turkey's entry to the EU, Britain can be expected to be a more agreeable place for the new EU citizens than Germany appears to be at present.

Embedded in Scottish ethnic identity is the same political and harmonising value tacitly held in common by the diversity of the peoples of the UK that the mandate for the laws they live by must always be derived from their popular sovereignty.
Since Islam is committed to revealed divine sovereignty as the un-negotiable and unavoidably, discordant mandate, it is hard to see how free and definitive communal acknowledgement of Scottish identity can be possible without it - even with haggis and kilts.

The Islamic mind does not entertain the idea of an 'unconscious and sees all human actions as motivated by consciously arrived at decisions. Since Islam eschewing of mystery as a strategic tool against other religions everything within it must be easily comprehendable or appealingly 'logical'. and leaves little sympathetic room for that inner conflict or turmoil that has been so characteristic of Western literature.. No 'to be or not to be' autonomous Hamlet moments. Imagine the response to 'to believe in Allah or not to believe'.. No 'doubting Thomas' either. Doubt and conscience can not be allowed to draw a boundary..
In response a theological offensive could make clear than Islam is not something of a eccentric cousin of Judaism and Christianity but a religico- political movement foundered on a conception of a Deity whose moral essence is incompatible with that of the moral essence of the Judeo-Christian conception. That is, Islam's inculcation that the killing of others can be a pious and sacramental act of obedience to the will of an Allah putatively revealed by the prophet Muhammed. However, in Britain the Archbishop Rowan Williams instead of safeguarding society from the incursion of this morally alien and dangerously warranting conception - actually aggrandizes Islam by promoting Sharia 'law' on the insensible grounds of 'community cohesion' rather than looking to the perilous task of liberating captive Muslims from this aspect of Islam.

A sardonic mockery of the dominant liberal hegemony in the West that has ignorantly, recklessly, fearfully-and conceitedly, embedded into its governing power structures of influence, education,and policy, a religiously based political movement that hostile to the core values that gave it this inclusion is piously bound, and increasingly better advantaged to subvert them and appropriate these structures as their own - by hook or by crook.

Back to the thirties progressive liberal policies.

Since Islam is a religico -political faith that can only achieve its fullest worldly realisation by subverting democratic institutions - and thereafter, sustain itself by demonizing any residual or nascent democratic activism as the blasphemous work of Shaitan (and his jinns) punishable by the 'smiting at the neck' - the hijab therefore must be at least a notional symbol of that political intent - and for the pious a radical and resurgent one too.
If symbols of other political movements and ideologies are proscribed in schools, by the same rationale so should hijabs (and veils) too.
In Madrid, at least, they're smart enough to see the political wood lurking behind the religious trees. One invasion, it seems, was enough.

I don't know if Nick Griffin knows that although the black flag of Jihad is not as of yet flying over 10 Downing Street it does in fact fly over the Saturday market in Barking, where, I understand, he is standing for Parliament at the forthcoming election.

Would the interlopers reciprocate their logic by conceding that Hagia Sophia in Istanbul is still a cathedral?
Since Muslims maintain -with the acquiesce of the Anglican intelligensia -that they, and Christians, worship the same Deity, is it only a matter of time before radical elements will want to pray in the cathedrals and churches i n the guise to fostering a specious fellowship and community cohesion. How would Church leaders handle such 'inclusion' without losing capital all round to Islam by seeming to be intolerant,divisive and in particular, intellectually self contradictory if they were to state the actual truth that the moral attributes of the Christian and Muslim conceptions of Deity are so mutually exclusive that they could not possibly be the same 'One' Deity - and therefore, liturgical Islamic presence in a church would be theologically inappropriate, although indiividual Muslims would always be more than welcome.

Two minutes is not bad by UK standards.

The ban can't be 'Islamophobia' since the reasoning supporting it has been carefully elucidated. Implicit in it may be an abhorrence of an aspect of Islamic social practice but if we are to lose control of language and meaning by pathologizing dissent as an involuntary mental illness(and without the ministering of compassion) then Europe is recklessly moving back to an age it thought it had escaped.