Lately, there have been some breaches in that wall of denial, led valiantly by Trevor Phillips, former chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. Devastating data, collected by ICM, suggests that, far from following the normal pattern of integration, a “chasm” is opening up between Muslims and non-Muslims on key issues such as marriage, sexuality, freedom of expression and even the validity of violence.

The prospect of “a country within a country”, of zones where gay people are outlawed, adulterers stoned, women treated as children and little boys tell a primary school headmistress to cover her head “because only slags don’t cover their heads” needs to be resisted with every fibre of our national being. If we have any moral fibre left after thirty years of multiculturalism.

To Phillips’s list, I would add closing down Islamic schools which teach contempt for women and non-Muslims. Ban all Sharia courts immediately and insist on British law for everyone. As for Muslims who think that white girls are fair game or who don’t want to fit in, I can recommend a really good airport.

This is serious. Unless we succeed, the live-and-let-live attitude which makes Britain such a great place could end up being its death warrant.

Much as I wish to defend the gay community, I also want to defend freedom of conscience, expression and religion. The law suit against the bakery was well-intended. It sought to challenge homophobia. But it was a step too far. It pains me to say this, as a long-time supporter of the struggle for LGBT equality in Northern Ireland, where same-sex marriage and gay blood donors remain banned.

The equality laws are intended to protect people against discrimination. A business providing a public service has a legal duty to do so without discrimination based on race, gender, faith and sexuality. However, the court erred by ruling that Lee was discriminated against because of his sexual orientation and political opinions. His cake request was refused not because he was gay, but because of the message he asked for. There is no evidence that his sexuality was the reason Ashers declined his order.

In my view, it is an infringement of freedom to require businesses to aid the promotion of ideas to which they conscientiously object. Discrimination against people should be unlawful, but not against ideas.

So he goes to the authorities and demands that the government punish you for your resistance. The Attorney General takes you to Court, demanding that you pay large fines. You may be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorneys fees. Ridiculous, right? Would never happen in America. It is happening right now. And if this religious service is a same-sex wedding don’t expect the ACLU’s help.

Of all of the principles the left is suddenly willing to sacrifice on the altar of same-sex marriage – free speech, free exercise of religion, the rule of law, the right to vote, etc – perhaps the most surprising and least reported is that it is now effectively demanding compulsory participation and support of religious services. The ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State are perhaps best known for their stand for “separation of church and state.”

But today these organizations and their allies oppose Religious Freedom Restoration Acts and any other conscience protection for those who do not wish to participate in a same-sex wedding. They would have the government fine – even potentially imprison – those who will not participate in certain religious services.

Not every same-sex wedding is a church wedding, but some are. If Christian videographers, wedding coordinators, musicians, and other creative professionals – let alone pastors themselves – are required to provide their services for same-sex weddings, some will even have to be physically present, even participating in religious worship where they believe the prayers prayed, hymns sung, and scriptures read in support are actually blaspheming their own God.

Of the same-sex marriage agenda, Erick Erickson has coined the phrase, “You will be made to care.” But in some cases this is insufficient. You must participate. Even if the left must use the power of the government to fine you if you refuse, you will be made to worship their god.

Events from the last week have exposed the system as an illusion of choice and a farce. They have reinforced at least one study showing the US is an oligarchy rather than a democratic republic. The Wyoming democratic caucus took place on Saturday, purportedly to allow voters to have their voices heard in the race between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

Sanders lost the Wyoming caucus by winning it with a 12 percent margin. Wait, what?

How does one lose by winning 56 percent of the votes? This happens when the political process is, according to the New York Post, “rigged” by superdelegates. The Post summed up this “strange” phenomenon: “Under the Democratic Party’s oddball delegate system, Sanders’ winning streak — he has won seven out of the past eight contests — counts for little. “In fact, despite his win, he splits Wyoming’s 14 pledged delegates 7 to 7 under the caucus calculus.”

“Clinton, meanwhile, also gets the state’s four superdelegates — who had already pledged their allegiance to her in January. So despite ‘losing,’ she triumphs 11-7 in the delegate tally.” Even media pundits on MSNBC openly called the process rigged: The superdelegate process is complicated, as we’ve noted before, but they have one essential function: to prevent candidates like Bernie Sanders from winning the Democratic nomination.

Unsurprisingly, Trump’s non-establishment campaign walked away with zero delegates. They were all “awarded” to Ted Cruz. “How is it possible that the people of the great State of Colorado never got to vote in the Republican Primary? Great anger — totally unfair!” Trump said on Twitter. “The people of Colorado had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians. Biggest story in politics. This will not be allowed!” In an interview on Monday, Trump was even more frank. “The system is rigged, it’s crooked,” he said.

The First Amendment is our most basic right in America. It’s first one on the list. The right includes, “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances”. Lately every time people attempt to peacefully do that, the government sends down their henchmen to arrest them. That’s how they handle the petition, the grievances.

Now Capitol police have decided to arrest yet another 85 people, this time senior citizens, for peacefully assembling at the Capitol to protest our rigged elections. One has to wonder… are the cops sent down to arrest peacefully elderly protesters even remotely starting to feel like schoolyard bullies? Like a goon squad? Like the expendable bad guys in a cartoon who “are going to do what the establishment, the oligarchy, wants from them?”

Like anti-American scum? Because they quite obviously aren’t “serving and protecting” the American people here. They are a Gestapo serving and protecting their masters at “the Capitol,” the elite who uphold and proliferate our corrupt, tyrannical system.

The past Paschal Re-enactments were held in a school courtyard which became more cramped each year due to the growing popularity of the important event. For this reason the organizers decided to move the event this year to the more spacious location of Mitzpeh Beit Orot, between Mount Scopus and the Mount of Olives, near Emek Tzurim, which faces Judaism's holiest and most relevant site for the occasion, the Temple Mount.

The re-enactment will take place next Monday, just four days before the prescribed time of the Paschal Offering. Event organizers say they want to offer a taste of an exciting, authentic Jewish experience, "with its smells, sounds, and colors that have been lost to us these 2000 years, and to thus arouse a longing to renew this Temple ritual in our day."

Performer Mordechai Yitzhar and his band will be on hand to sing the Hallel accompanied by silver trumpets, just as was the practice in the days of the Temple.

Yesterday tremors were also felt as far as 500 miles away at the national park in India where the Royal couple Kate and William were visiting. Today The Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital confirmed admitting 45 injured patients, including five with serious problems after a quake of magnitude 6.2 to 6.5 and a series of strong after shocks ripped through Kumamoto city.

Several buildings were damaged or destroyed and at least six people are believed to be trapped under homes in Mashiki and local reports said one woman was rescued in critical condition. Scientists say there has been an above average number of significant earthquakes across south Asia and the Pacific since the start of the year. The increased frequency has sparked fears of a repeat of the Nepal quake of 2015, when 8,000 people died, or even worse.