A very muddled article. Your final point was about Tariq Ramadan, a relatively safe target, but what do Mick Jagger, advertising billboards and so on have to do with him?

Besides which, you would be more credible if one could escape the feeling that you are simply an advocate of the Old Order — which in was every bit as morally corrupt and wrong-headed as the New Order.

We would never have had the revolutions of the 60s and beyond — containing as they did some positive elements and many unfortunate ones — if the old order had not been full of hypocrisy, entrenched power and immovable privilege. The fault is probably all mine, but what I hear from your meandering prose is the bitter envy of one illegitimate clique usurped by another.