We should be apoplectic with rage about this

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The vast majority of muslims are peaceful tolerant people. The only bit that gets the publicity is the extremists.

Unfortunately it is practiced in some backward countries which need dictatorial rule to hold them together.

The main branches of Islam, like all religions, have normal distributions of belief but there is no getting away from the facts that it is also a political, not simply a religious, creed, and that that distribution is greatly skewed towards religious conservatism when compared to Christianity.

There are 21 Officially Islamic states and almost as many that are pretty close to it. In "secular" Bangladesh for example there is no chance whatever of any non Muslim rising above the lowest rank in government. How can you have democracy or equality for all if laws and even rights to citizenship are governed by Islamic law?

According to polls published in The Guardian, over a third of young Muslims in the UK support the idea of Shariah law and almost a third that converts from Islam should be executed. Those are not tiny minorities. How many Christian young men think in a similar way?

I agree we should not cast all Muslims as extremists, that is counterproductive, but we need to face up to the extremist problem and stop this PC pretence about the nature of Islam.