There has been much hullabaloo in the press about the recent anti-Islam rallies, and the corresponding anti-anti-Islam-rallies-rallies. In Melbourne, where the clash was most vigorous, the police went so far as to deploy pepper spray upon the throbbing hordes in an effort to ‘preserve the peace’. The event I spectated in Adelaide was, as all things are in my native city, rather milder and much more pleasant.