Is Muslim inaction being seen as Tacit approval....

[Loosehead]

For terrorism? Should the Islamic Community do more to fight terror as suggested by the PM?
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13 531290,00.html

[Oneeyedvic]

Yes of course - it is everyone's fault except the PMs

[whiffey]

Loosehead, in a word, yes.

Islam is implacably opposed to the 'Christian' West and most especially Israel. Talks, discussions with imams ? Waste of time. It is too late - and this country has brought it upon itself.

[noxlumos]

Might have helped if we hadn't killed thousands of innocent Muslims in Iraq though might it not in our attempts to crawl even further up America? Tony Blair still cannot see, years later, what the thousands of people who marched against the war in Iraq could at the time, despite being given a bloody nose in elections and promising to listen more carefully he is still missing the point. All he is doing is blaming other people for his own shortcomings. Critisising millions of decent Muslim people will not make this go away, if anything his blunt and foolish remarks will alienate them even more.

[jno]

13% of Muslims believe in jihad? That means 87% don't. That sounds like a pretty large number of Muslims who aren't implacably opposed to the west at all. Indeed, the evidence has been that moderate Muslims have for years been horrified at some of their mosques being taken over by extremists and told the police, who weren't interested. (I did read a story to this effect quite recently but can't find it to provide a link, sorry.)

[anotheoldgit]

Why doesn't the BBC or Channel 4 send a reporter to infiltrate a Mosque as they did a Police station, and a BMP meeting. Perhaps then we might see what actually goes off in these so called religious buildings.

[brachiopod]

"13% [of Muslims] believe in Jihad"

And?

Sorry, fender, but do you actually understand what Jihad means to most Muslims? Or are your opinions as blindly plucked from the tabloids along with the statistics?

Should we also eye with suspicion those Christians (decent, honest, Middle-England, C of E, of course) that sing "Fight the good fight with all Thy might...."

If you were asked in the street "Do you believe in the fight against Evil?" what would your reply be?

Try to understand the concept of Jihad before making such leading statements.

[Booldawg]

I suppose asking an honest, clean living muslim to grass on someone in their mosque who is or may be engaging in terrorsist activity is about as likely as getting an honest, clean living catholic from belfast to dob in someone they suspect as being a republican terrorsist. ever heard of the word 'sympathiser' ?

[admarlow]

nice one Losehead, don't listen to all the bleeding hearts, this is a rare occasion wherwe Mr Blair has got it spot on. No doing anything is as good as condoning it, for instance the average german in the 1930's and the Jews.

[noxlumos]

As a Catholic from West Belfast with a Jewish wife you don't know how amusing those last two statements were to us.
Do the words "clutching at straws" mean anything to either of you?

[Booldawg]

my statement stands firm. unless of course we imagined the scenes of british muslims partying in the street after 9/11. I'm not saying 100% of irish catholics supported the IRA, I'm not saying that 100% of muslims support terrorism. What I was saying is that a certain percentage ANY group will sympathise with a cause related to their beleif.

[brionon]

A Dutch TV programme did smuggle a microfone into a Mosque and heard the young men being instructed to ''Carry themselves like Victors for the West and all unbelievers are doomed'' and the ''Islam will conqer.''