The Muslim grapevines are still buzzing over the victory of 16-year old Shabina Begum over her British school's authorities. The Islamists, predictably, are crowing, forgetting that just mere months ago they were busily lambasting Western governments for tyranny against the Muslims.

France was evil because it banned the wearing of headscarves in public schools, and now Britain is saintly because it allowed one girl to wear what she likes to school. It's nice to live in such a black and white world where things are so neatly ordered.

"People should not be barred from wearing what their religions demand," they say, nodding to one another sagely (never mind, for now, the question of who

interprets those religious demands for us Muslims, and whether their interpretations are actually true to the spirit of the Quran).

They forget the sword swings both ways. God only knows what these Islamists would say should a Hindu suddenly demand that she be given the right to wear a saree to school in their strict Muslim countries, in line with her religious beliefs.