Blackburn, one of the most segregated towns in Britain

The findings came as a shock to everyone except the people of Blackburn.

Some areas of the town are 95 percent Asian and some shopkeepers have never served a white person.

Many locals feel that over a handful of decades Blackburn, and many nearby northern towns, has been sleepwalking to ghettoization, separation and nothing short of a neo-apartheid.

Apartheid on the streets of Blackburn: How political correctness killed integration

I ask Muhammad the worried westerner’s prime question about the Koran – why are their so many passages and verses which seem to want to kill me?

He initially disputes the claim so I quote Koran 8:12 which is basically about striking terror into the hearts of disbelievers before removing their heads from their body – a practice which, unless you’ve really not been paying attention to the recent murderous geo-politics of the Middle East, will seem depressingly familiar. The 8:12 verse is one of many of the Koran’s darker passages which are used by ISIS and their literal cohorts to justify ever more inhuman levels of barbarity.

I ask whether the nasty passages couldn’t be simply erased from the Koran just leaving the good bits but my scholarly interviewee laughs. He says: “See, you’re already calling them nasty passages. “It’s the Koran, it’s more than 1400 years old, you have to see it in the context of the time to understand it.”

Yes. Context. And then you have to read it in Arabic. Which doesn’t change the fact that Islam an Arabic ideology based on rape, murder and plunder.