Stare Master

By JAMES TARANTO
Opinion Journal

"A headline in London's Sunday Times reads "Don't Stare at Muslims Says Advice to Schools":

Pupils and teachers have been told by an official body not to stare at Muslims for fear of causing offence.

A document intended to educate against religious intolerance and sectarianism urges teachers to "make pupils aware of the various forms of Islamophobia, ie stares, verbal abuse, physical abuse." . . .

Osama Saeed, a spokesman for the Muslim Association of Britain, accused officials of going too far. "There are far more serious elements of Islamophobia. People look at all sorts of things--that can just be a glance. A glance and a stare are two different things--glances happen naturally when all sorts of things catch your eye whereas a stare is probably gawking at something. "Personally I have not encountered much of a problem with people staring. I don't know how you legislate for that."

Good for Saeed for speaking out against this especially condescending manifestation of multiculturalism."