Yes, it does seem faintly ridiculous to be discussing medieval problems while The Friendly Sons of Muhammed are over running the place.
Unfortunately the ramifications of that argument are still with us today, made all the worse by being tied to the heady concepts of liberty, nationalism and patriotism. This is not a dead issue, certainly not in some part of the UK. This is why I decry all this Catholic triumphalism - I want my people (the English) to rise and unite again, but I don’t want them to do that on an anti-catholic bandwagon. And that could happen. It really could.