"Christianity went on and grew out of its bad habits.
Islam can and will do the same"...

Do you not here implicitly or even explicitly, accept my view as to the 'bad habits' of present day Islam?

"but not if we insist on tarin all Muslims with the same brush"

which was what I avoided doing, except insofar as pointing out that their presence in numbers provides the breeding ground for those unacceptable dissident elements with their 'bad habits' to flourish. And to convert outsiders from the indigenous population, especially among those who are antisocially inclined in the first place: it is a much observed commonplace that prisons are particularly fertile breeding grounds for such conversions to extremism, as occurred at time leading to 7/7; tho I must concede that the two involved in this present thread-topic appear to have had other, so far not entirely comprehended, motivations. I am not one to assert any invariable patterns; but certain trends and tendencies can surely be made out?

~M~