It really is a mad, mad world…
In Gorton and Denton, Muslim community leaders threw their weight behind the Green Party — apparently deciding that ideological indigestion is a small price to pay for electoral strategy. Principles? Park them at the door. The party has long flirted with drug policy liberalisation that would make even hardened libertarians blink.
Polanski’s defence — that the “war on drugs is lost” — is less a rallying cry than a shrug. It’s the political equivalent of “well, we tried.” Meanwhile, Islam is unambiguous on intoxicants and hardly renowned for its theological flexibility on sexuality. Cognitive dissonance, meet campaign leaflet.
Then there’s Cllr Mona Adam in Kensington and Chelsea — educated in Saudi Arabia, a state not exactly famous for its relaxed approach to narcotics or alcohol. As for homosexuality….being thrown off roof tops or strangulation by hanging deals with that. In Islamic states enforcement is less “harm reduction” and more “swift reduction.” One can only marvel at the intellectual gymnastics required to square that background with the Greens’ breezy, anything-goes urban liberalism.
If the Greens ever do become “Islamified,” their younger, rainbow-flag-waving libertines may discover that revolutionary alliances have expiry dates. Political coalitions are funny things: everyone smiles for the photo, and no one mentions the contradictions — until they matter.
So yes, Cllr Adam, do enlighten us: how does one reconcile uncompromising religious orthodoxy with a party whose social philosophy is essentially “live and let live — and legalise it”? The electorate would be fascinated to hear the footnotes.
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