Yeah, I can see the irony, but its not just the Qur'an. In fact, I'd guess most of these people wouldn't know the Qur'an from a hole in the ground. They're fed on a daily diet of tabloid nonsense - muslim sues employer for millions after refusing to handle a can of beer, muslim complains about cute puppy, muslims cause cancellation of school nativity plays, muslim country arrests nice white woman for showing her ankles in public, muslim plot to blow up something, etc, ad nauseam.
Its got nothing to do with ex-muslims criticising their former faith, its sensationalist, rabble rousing journalism.
Agreed!
The tabloid media and even Newsnight focus on the nutters too much which makes people think that all Muslims are unhinged. Which I suppose is the reason why there are so many programs out there that try to paint Islam as a tolerant font of infinite wisdom.
But lets be fair, the media is reacting to supremacist Islamic terrorism and the trend of many young Muslims to have sympathy with the terrorists or become ultra conservative in their world view.
Undercover Mosque wasn't a fabrication, the nutters are out there and they are active.
I don't think the media attention is coming from some desire to persecute Muslims as much as it is genuine outrage at the outrageous actions of the loud Muslim minority.
Lets not pretend that a lot of Muslims aren't creating the rope that the media hangs them with.
Their parents are liberal but many young Muslims now conform to the most extreme dress codes and religious practices to separate themselves from everyone else.
There are areas of Britain that make Istanbul or Kuala Lumpa look like shining open beacons of religious liberalism. It can feel very alienating to many liberal minded people to see so many young Muslims becoming very aloof, superior and disrespectful to everything a liberal society stands for.
This creates an unspoken desire (even amongst us liberals) undermine the sense of superiority and destroy the self created walls of separation.
Too many young Muslims are abusing the liberal human rights legislation through the court system to force secular public institutions to comply to their extra rigid conservative religious demands.
It's not the whole Muslim community but it's enough to feed a public hunger to get back at this assertive and subversive community. The media are just feeding that desire.
The problem is the loud minority of radicals have the most visible dress code and shout as loud as they can "Muslim and proud" Whereas for moderates their religion is a private affair so they become invisible.
The thugs who attack people because of their colour really are a separate issue. They are not attacking people because they saw Hass debunking the Koran or they saw Ayaan Hirsi Ali talk of the innate misogyny in Islam.
I don't think for a second that they would care if the guy was a Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or Jain. This guy or Stephen Lawrence, it don't matter they just hate the other.
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