My question focused not on Islamist terrorism – the ostensible ground of Trump’s outburst – but on the threat posed by large-scale Muslim immigration to the code of morals that my young friends, like most educated Europeans, now accept without question. Terrorism aside, wouldn’t they worry if Islam came to have a growing influence on British law and politics?
我的问题的重点不是伊斯兰恐怖主义，即特朗普爆发的表面目标，而是大规模穆斯林移民给我的青年朋友（以及大部分受过教育的欧洲人）视为理所当然的道德观所造成的威胁。暂且把恐怖主义放在一边，如果伊斯兰教日益对英国法律和政治形成越来越大的影响，他们难道不会担忧吗？