Extremists, both of the European white-supremacist kind and of the Islamist kind, are rubbing their hands together in glee. What the Islamists want more than anything is to have a proper culture war between Islam and the West. Yet what the Islamists want more than anything is to have a proper culture war between Islam and the West. In both cases, such a culture war would legitimise their respective world views and prejudices. What we have with the burkini ban is a move into the mainstream of politics of just this kind of culture war: “Are you a Muslim?

Source: Dhaka Tribune August 27, 2016 18:00 UTC