The Head of the Church of England, HM King Charles III, issued a statement celebrating Eid, the conclusion of the Islamic month of fasting called Ramadan. Then, last month, more than 350 people gathered in St. George’s Hall, in Windsor Castle, to break their Ramadan fast. 

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer had also celebrated Ramadan, at what he called a “difficult time for Muslims in the UK” during an iftar event in Parliament. At the event, the Prime Minister took the opportunity to condemn the “wave of hatred we have seen directed towards British Muslims,” which he said was “whipped up by far-right rhetoric and disinformation.” 

Even the West Yorkshire Police took to the streets—no, not to prevent crime or do anything resembling policing—to hand out boxes of dates to Muslims, with which to break their daily fast at sundown.

Brits are not expecting, in their country where Christianity is the religion by law established, to see any such celebrations by the establishment of the resurrection of Jesus Christ this Easter, or any acknowledgement that Christians have just spent the last forty days undertaking Lenten fasts and penances. It is difficult not to conclude that the country’s institutions are preparing to be on the ‘right side of history’ as the United Kingdom enters its Islamic period in history.