OMG - Stick in hornets nest !

[tamborine]

http://www.dailymail....hardline-parents.html

[Gromit]

Emotive headline used on purpose. I do not like fundamental Islam, and I am sad that a small number of British Muslims practice it and inflict it on their children, but that does not make them Taleban.

They are following a form of Islam called wahhabism which originates in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis are our friends (allegedly) but the Taleban are not.

[anotheoldgit]

/// I do not like fundamental Islam, and I am sad that a small number of British Muslims practice it ///

Phrases like these Gromit are often quoted, but who actually knows and can back it up with facts, that there are only a small number of fundamental Muslims in Britain?

[naomi24]

Superb article - good for her - and for the religious apologists among us, I think this says it all.

//Liberals tolerate the intolerable because they don't have to live with the consequences.//

[birdie1971]

The phrase the man used should send a shiver down the spine of everyone who has the capacity to think for themselves...

“I am not an educated man, so I must listen to them.”


The man is a fool. Not because he's uneducated but because he's clearly aware that he's uneducated and yet armed with that self realisation, still seems resigned to living a life of intellectual and religious slavery.

[naomi24]

Birdie, unfortunately that doesn't apply solely to the uneducated.

[birdie1971]

Naomi – True. It's such a shame.

[lindapinda]

What concerns me most here,is that i would consider yasmin to be a very middle of the road/liberal British muslim...not given to undue scare articles!! I respect her worries accordingly :-(

[naomi24]

Linda, that's precisely the point. When someone like her says what she's saying, only a blinkered fool would refuse to listen.