“The chief constable of Nottinghamshire police, Steve Green, has just bought 20,000 green ribbons for his officers to wear to that they can ‘show solidarity’ with the county’s Muslim community…. I suppose some people might find it a little sinister that the politically neutral police should have started making such a public declaration of allegiance. If you were gay, for example, you might wonder if the green ribbon meant that the entire police force supported Islam’s rigorous approach to homosexuality.”

Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times, 14 August 2005