"Now, can you honestly say that Islamic teachings have no political or forensic influence in Yemen, Saudi, Brunei, N Nigeria, Malaysia, Sudan, Somalia (cont p 94)?"
Of course they have, just as Christian teaching has an effect in Ireland, Spain, France, Italy - and everywhere that calls itself a Christian/Catholic country - and that effect can be just as align as Muslim extremism when it as allowed to be.
It is disingenuous to claim Israel is not a religious state - in theory maybe, but the Zionist right have made religion a major feature in its development.
In the end, religion is immaterial anyway - the setting up of a mono-religious/cultural state in the manner that is taking place is the threat, and would be, no matter what religion was involved.
Israel's role is one of an expansionist aggressor - nuclear capability is the icing on the cake.
If I am being "silly", you are being evasive.
A nuclear power behaving as Israel is just as, if not far more dangerous as Islamism.
The Muslim communities in Britain have more than proved they are capable of avoiding the extremes of their religion, otherwise the streets would have been awash with Powell's "Rivers of Blood" long before now.
These tried and trusted law-abiding people are the ones you would throw back into the arms of the Islamic extremists, making them bitter and resentful enemies (not without reason) rather than the friends and good citizens they have proven to be - all to feed your own personal bigotry.
I wonder what the final count would have been if those fleeing the rise of Nazism in Germany had been given the same welcome you are offering Muslims
Doesn't bear thinking about - so you obviously haven't bothered.
Jim Carroll