As I noted in Standpoint at the time, the programme did not find any evidence that Treblinka or Auschwitz had reopened in the UK. But they did find a Muslim leader at the Basildon Islamic Centre in Essex called Sarfraz Sarwar, who complained of attacks by vandals, including arson, on his prayer hall, house and car.

"What is happening is mainly to do with misunderstanding," he explained. Oborne presented this in the way Warsi presented her case. Yet no one presenting the programme thought to note Mr Sarwar's current and high-profile calls, in the local newspaper and elsewhere, for Sharia law to be imposed in the UK and Sharia-style public floggings to take place in the town centres of Essex. "Sharia law is not controversial. It's a deterrent. Muslim countries don't have half the problems we have because Sharia law is there," he said.Needless to say, nobody should throw stones through anybody's windows, but mightn't people end up doing so because of statements like this?

A few months later, when another round of fighting between Israel and Hamas broke out Mr Sarwar — who like most such leaders boasts of "interfaith" work — could be found demonstrating outside the Israeli embassy in London. He told a reporter, "I met hundreds of young Muslims who are in no way fanatical. They haven't been brainwashed and aren't religious zealots, they are normal young men, but see what is happening and they are getting frustrated. It's senseless violence like this that will feed their anger and will make them want to fight." The next year, explaining the benefits of Sharia law for Britain to a journalist, he explained how British society could be improved by Sharia punishments. What would his punishment be for underage sex? "If they're caught doing it, you stone the woman."

He explained, "In Victorian days they applied Sharia. They held people in stocks. There were public floggings, hangings. Why not go back to it? What's the big beef now? Too many goody-two-shoes talking about human rights." It seemed that the only thing even more confused than Mr Sarwar's attitudes towards Victorianism is what our opinion should be towards him.

Mr Sarwar is not the most prominent Muslim leader in Britain, but he is symptomatic. On the one hand, he says of someone throwing a stone through his window, "I thought we were living in a modern European country, but it is like Victorian times. There is a lot of hate." One the other, he promotes punishments which are pre-Victorian, indeed medieval, such as stoning women to death. On the one hand, he can say that fear of the Muslim community is inexplicable. On the other, he can threaten that hundreds of young Muslims in Britain are standing on the cusp of violence.