Not in our name

An article in Today by Asim Siddique, chairman of the City Circle, a network of young British Muslim professionals, which organises weekly public forums to debate issues of mutual concern between British Muslim communities and the wider society.

It is worth reading.... excerpts below...

NOT IN OUR NAME
Blaming foreign policy not the answer. Where are Muslim marches in revulsion against acts of terrors in Islam's name?

"The events of the last few days (terror attacks in Britain) have been sobering for all" ...


...." Diverting attention from the problems within the Muslim communities and blaming others- especially the West- is always more popular than the difficult task of self-scrutiny"....


...." And what part of UK foreign policy do the Islamist want the UK to change to tackle terrorism? Withdrawal from Iraq?"....


..." Even after British troops leave Iraq will these Mulsim groups be satisfied? of course not. Their list of grievances is endless: Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine, Burma...s long as the world is presented as one where the West is forever at war with Islam and Muslims there is nothing we can do to appease the terrorists and those who share their world view. Instead it is the extremist world view that must change"...


..."Where is their outrage at the 400 000 Muslims slaughtered in Darfu?"...


..."It is nowhere to be seen because the Darfurians have been masscred by fellow Muslims, not by the West. Hence it does not appear on the Islamist radar screen as 'grievance'. Such is the moral bankruptcy of this ideology"...


..."The radical Islamist ideology needs to be exposed to young Muslims for what it really is. A tool for the introduction of a medieval form of government that describes itself as an 'Islamic State' that is violent, retrogressive, discriminatory, a perversion of the sacred texts and a totalitarion dictatorship"...


..." What is required is for those that claim to represent and have influence among young British Muslims to proactively counter the extremist Islamic narrative."