As a British Muslim school teacher, I can’t say I’m surprised about this week’s court ruling. The decision to rule in favour of Michaela Community School’s banning of ‘prayer rituals’ – and its clear discrimination of Muslim students – is indicative of this country’s Muslim moral panic. In Britain, innocuous expressions of Muslim identity are now viewed as extreme and anti-British, including five minutes of private prayer at lunchtime. “Israel’s status as a Western ally and the last outpost of Western settler-colonialism in the Middle East has not only legitimised Islamophobia in the UK but ne…