They took the one flower Britain keeps for its dead, cut it into another flag’s colours, and sold it in the very weeks of mourning, partly to fund a group the Home Office has reportedly called Islamist. A week after poppy wreaths were trampled on the Embankment, the Home Secretary still has nothing to say. The fallen are owed better than counterfeits and silence. If ye break faith with us who die…

Christian writers who critique sharīʿa are often called racist. This letter shows why the charge is usually a category error (Islam is not a race), yet urges writers to answer arguments, not motives, and to tell strategists from the wounded. Drawing on Scripture, the Fathers and history, it calls for self-examination, courtesy and love: our struggle is not against flesh and blood.