Terrorism takes many forms

Nissar Hussein was born in Britain and has in fact lived here for most his life. As a typical muslim male, living and working in Bradford, Nissar was doing alright. But then, in 1996, he and his wife converted to Christianity. Well that shouldn’t be a problem, should it? After all, this is the UK. I mean, here in the UK gays can get married in church, you can get a sex change on the NHS, and if you want to practice paganism or perform satanic rituals onboard one of the Royal Navy’s ships… well, that’s ok, too… anything goes here.

Not quite. You see, with Islam things are different. For a start, if you renounce your Islamic faith then strictly speaking you have to be killed. Indeed, all four schools of Islamic jurisprudence agree that it’s just about the worst thing a muslim can do, which is why apostates in many countries are executed. But of course here in Britain we’ve not yet been fully Islamised. It’s still illegal here to kill someone just because they choose not to believe in something. Oh yeah? Try telling that to Nissar.

When Bradford’s muslims discovered they had given up on the Islamic thing, life for Nissar, his wife, and their five children suddenly got very difficult. Bricks were hurled at the windows of his home, and his car was rammed and set on fire. Indeed, over the course of about three years they’ve been regularly abused and intimidated. On one occasion, they even threatened to burn his house down, so Nissar reported the matter to the police. But the police dismissed Nissar and advised him to “move to another place”. A couple of days later the house next door was torched.