https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-keir-starmer-wishing-us-eid-mubarak/
Unsurprisingly, this has aroused much anger on social media, with accusations of cultural cringe, opportunism, servility and double standards. Many noticed that Prime Minister Keir Starmer was keen to release his message on Sunday, but chose not to use that occasion to wish Happy Mother’s Day to the nation. The fact that the Royal Family has marked the date, but has been not so forthcoming on Christian festivals, has also generated resentment. One X user captured the mood: ’The King of England has spent an incredible amount of time and talent acknowledging and celebrating Ramadan. Yet, Charles is the head of the Church of England. A Christian Church, which he flatly ignored on Ash Wednesday and Lent.’
People are right to feel aggrieved. Such gestures seem symptomatic of a society beholden to asymmetrical multiculturalism, a self-contradictory but widespread form of thinking which simultaneously dictates that all cultures are equal, except that of the host nation, which is automatically deemed worse. This deference to Islam seems especially unmerited, given that such gestures of generosity are seldom reciprocated by spokesmen for that faith, and rarely made in countries under the sway of Islamic rulers.
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