21 October 2009

Which Islam are you afraid of?

.... Over lunch after the London bombings a very old friend of mine, who might be regarded by some as such a caricature of the relativist British liberal that he is even the son of a "gay vicar", told me he was scared about "Muslims".

"What do you mean," I asked. "Which ones?" "All of them," he replied. I found this honest response profoundly chilling - not least for the ignorance it showed about the many and varied shades of Islam as it is practised around the world. [New Statesman] Read more