.... The last thing the West should be doing at this moment is talking of “good Islam” against “bad Islam” or making this into a religious conflict. It isn’t. It’s the reflection of a feeling among Muslims, here as in the Middle East, that the past has failed them, and that they need to recover their self-belief, without provocations from a West which has does so much to damage them in the past.
[A COMMENT] Oh please, spare us this apologia. Islam has always been and always will be a conservative, reactionary religion. And as long as the majority of Muslims stay silent and do not shout from the rooftops their condemnation of - for example - the fact that in Islington alone, in Britain, in 2010, 30 under-age Muslim girls were forced into paedophile marriages against their will with the blessing and sanction of self-styled imams, nothing is going to change.
If there is a "good Islam" - and I'd say the jury is most definitely out on that question - it's a strangely cowed, muted, fearful Islam. [independent.co.uk] Read more
