Tim Blair

Sound more like a recruiting drive.

Cheers
JMH

The biggest source of "anti-Muslim Propaganda" is the unadorned description of the facts about the acts of the jihadis, such as those of the scum who massacred a woman and her four daughters the other day. If these people want to combat anti-Muslim hatred they would do it best by Muslims themselves killing all the jihadis and renouncing the whole concept of jihad. I'm not holding my breath.

Hey, it's the website of the Lakemba car owners' association!

Modified cars. How boring.

Now this is a modification with a purpose.

I read that rather differently I think. It looks to me like a push from "moderate" islamic groups to separate themselves from the fundamentalist crazys.

From the paragraph immediately preceding the one Tim quotes:
"Jihad means struggle but not necessarily a violent struggle. It can mean the struggle for tolerance and freedom."

And so in presenting this point of view it seems to be implying a position of "when the whackjobs talk about jihads and blowing up buses in the same sentence - we don't agree with that".

Seems like Bruce is rather good at self-delusion and er, other self things.

I think Bruce is right. One problem is that sometimes mainstream Moslems have no problem with terrorism and sometimes they deny it has anything to do with Islam. Open conversations (assuming students can actually converse openly) may force Moslems to take a consistent stand, allowing everyone else to decide how worthy they are of our respect.

We wouldn't want to condemn suicide bombings now would we? Jenny Tonge must be extremely pleased to see her apologist line taken in this case.

We will be leaving issues like suicide bombing up for discussion to encourage pupils, having heard about the general principles of Islam and jihad, to discuss and decide for themselves whether suicide bombers are carrying out their principles of jihad.

Wha....???

They have to "discuss" and "decide" whether suicide bombings are worthy acts of principle?

When I lived in London last year the troubles with the local Muslim youth were nearly out of control. Twice, fire engines were called to false fires and pelted with stones while the youths chanted ``Osama.'' The firemen found a case of molotov cocktails nearby. The government is scared witless to confront the problem and the pick through it like a minefield.
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