RE: 10 dead in Paris after attack on Magazine
January 7, 2015 at 3:24 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2015 at 6:01 pm by Fidel_Castronaut.)
Islam is the elephant in the room.
Whilst obviously true that not all Muslims are extremists, too often this truism is translated into inaction in the face of the very real threat of extremism which is prevalent in many if not all Islamic communities throughout (at least) the UK and further abroad in Europe. In my own city here in England extremism has been found in schools and local councils, but every attempt to confront it has been decried as islamophobia (in the school case, the people who were warning about extremism were themselves Muslims!)
We need to confront extremism, not kowtow to it. We need to ensure that nobody is afraid of calling Mohammed a pig fucker or publishing a picture of him. We need to unite against it and not be afraid, and it starts with the political elite confronting the elephant of extremism that we all know exists but are afraid of outing in case they become the target of that extremism.
Edited for spelling and grammar (damn iphone )
Whilst obviously true that not all Muslims are extremists, too often this truism is translated into inaction in the face of the very real threat of extremism which is prevalent in many if not all Islamic communities throughout (at least) the UK and further abroad in Europe. In my own city here in England extremism has been found in schools and local councils, but every attempt to confront it has been decried as islamophobia (in the school case, the people who were warning about extremism were themselves Muslims!)
We need to confront extremism, not kowtow to it. We need to ensure that nobody is afraid of calling Mohammed a pig fucker or publishing a picture of him. We need to unite against it and not be afraid, and it starts with the political elite confronting the elephant of extremism that we all know exists but are afraid of outing in case they become the target of that extremism.
Edited for spelling and grammar (damn iphone )
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