Islam allows rape.
Don’t believe me? Check out Shabir Ally, who is widely considered a progressive scholar.
I challenge any Muslim scholar to refute this. This is why Hamas so brazenly raped Israeli women—because their religion, Islam, permits it.
Point 1: at a party last week to mark the departure of the Italian ambassador in London, the joke doing the rounds was that Britain should send for the ex-Italian Prime minister, Mario Draghi, to act as a stand-in PM - a non-partisan technocrat who could reassure the markets.