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Thread #126240   Message #2808111
Posted By: Ruth Archer
10-Jan-10 - 06:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: Islamic Protest in Wootton Bassett
Subject: RE: BS: Islamic Protest in Wootton Bassett
But Lizzie, what you SAID was "How do we turn Islam BACK to peace?"

That doesn't imply an understanding that we are dealing with a few extremists who are giving the whole of the Muslim world a bad name. That implies a belief that all, or a majority, of Muslims is on a path which is not about peaceful co-existence, but about war-mongering and intolerance.

Early on in this thread you despaired that moderate Muslims do not speak out against the extremists. Since then you've been presented with example after example of the fact that they DO, but it clearly isn't an interesting enough news story to be reported in a way that gives balance and proportion to the whole issue. So maybe you'd like to retract your question above, and acknowledge that we do not need to "turn Islam BACK to peace," but instead have to find a way to accommodate all sorts of beliefs within this multi-cultural society. That includes many in the "host nation" developing a bit more tolerance, and not using isolated acts of extremism to justify their bigotry.