Boxtops - “Fear is often born of lack of understanding...”
Agreed. But the reverse is also equally true – fear can be borne from a genuine understanding.
“Having said that, the fact that the bombers etc who are high profile are (mostly) from an extreme branch of Islam does the rest of the Muslim world no favours at all, and leads to all Muslims being tarred with the same brush.”
Agreed. Violent acts committed in the name of Islam do your average muslim no favours at all. Another thing that does your average muslim no favours at all is 'average muslims' talking amongst themselves (when no one's looking of course!) at their distrust, contempt and outright loathing of non-muslims, as depicted in the Channel 4 documentary, 'Undercover Mosque' – a documentary that has been verified in the High Court as being an accurate representation of reality.
http://video.google.c...=2515587181120245843#
And Baroness Warsi wonders why non-muslims seem to dislike and/or distrust Islam?