Tough talk from Martin Amis

There’s a definite urge—don’t you have it?—to say, “The Muslim community will have to suffer until it gets its house in order.” What sort of suffering? Not letting them travel. Deportation—further down the road. Curtailing of freedoms. Strip-searching people who look like they’re from the Middle East or from Pakistan. . . . Discriminatory stuff, until it hurts the whole community and they start getting tough with their children. . . . They hate us for letting our children have sex and take drugs—well, they’ve got to stop their children killing people.

Martin Amis

I never really thought much of Mr Amis, but he's definitely starting to talk like a very large majority of English people think. Problem is, he's not in charge of a government department, or a budget or a newspaper or a TV station.