Re: muslum march
Originally Posted by tomcat
If you remember back last year a group of muslems shouted abuse at the coffins of our brave soldiers..
And plenty of Muslims disagreed with them and spoke out at the time.
Most of the Muslim peace marches and calls for moderation and tolerance get drowned out by the press which overwhelmingly right wing and, in the interest of sales, only too happy to stoke the flames of outrage.
Very occasionally, the odd peaceful message will get through...
Muslims drive off protestors
...but mostly coverage of those peace marches and calls for moderation are only covered by the likes of the Guardian and Indie, which the bulk of the country are not with-it enough to read.
Originally Posted by tomcat
these muslems come to our country and say to the British people they want to be British .
If by "these Muslims" you mean extremist groups like Islam4UK, al-Muhajiroun, then I agree with you. But people need to remember that away from the screaming headlines and radical preachers, there really are normal moderate Muslims getting on with life like anyone else - and they make up the bulk of Muslims, not the extremists - just like extremists like the BNP don't make for the bulk of Brits.
In this case, the best thing the press could do is not give them the oxygen of publicity.
I think we need to be very careful not to let the extremists at both ends hijack this debate. It always strikes me as ironic how the likes of the BNP and the extremist Muslim groups seem to be engaged in this odd dance where each group's actions and statements fuel each other. My own view is that it's non-progressives from both sides that are the problem, in their own way. If it was just us progressives and moderates in the middle, both within and outside Islam, there would be no problem. That's where the solution lies - in the middle, not at the extreme ends. Not through ramping up the rhetoric and driving the wedge of division in further.
But that's not what the press does...