(January 7, 2015 at 3:24 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Islam is the elephant in the room.
Whilet 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 prevelant 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 where 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.
In short, we need to cleave to our own values, not kowtow to theirs.