The quote below from this article is supposed to make us think, I think, "oh my goodness what a horrid and Islamophobic thing to say"!". But it is in fact a true statement. I've written elsewhere about the correlation between the percent Islamic and the civil and political rights of countries.
Here is the quote, referring to a speech Scruton made in 2014:
The lecture, first picked up by the Red Roar website, also argued that the nation-state is a Christian, European construct, which explained why a country such as Pakistan was a "failure". Focusing on Islam, Scruton wrote: "The same is true of many other countries in which Islam is the dominant faith. Even if such countries do function as states, like Pakistan, they are often failures as nations."
Now, it is true that the Peace of Westphalia created nation states in a then Christian Europe. Therefore it is true to say it's a "Christian, European construct...". And it's also true that Islamic states are laggards if not failed states.
But to The Guardian, this is heresy. They won't even touch whether it's true or not. We're supposed to yell, in unison, "bigot!"
