Enough lessons from these reactionary bigots!

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Originally Posted by Pharaoh

A substantial minority of muslims here are radical, about 25%, and as the Muslim population is nearly 2 million, that's half a million radical Muslims in the UK. If it was only a small minority causing trouble then there wouldn't be editors getting sacked and top politicians apologising about the cartoons.

A paper firing an employee that they find dentremental to their business, is infact there business. and it isn't out the realm of possibilty that politicians would apologize to make the normal muslims happy that also were offended.

And I don't expect Muslims not to be offended but I do expect our media and government to defend our freedom of speech. If Muslims riot, carry hate speech banners or make death threats then they should be arrested. We shouldn't let multiculturalism errode our freedom.

Death threats and riots are illegal, but sign making isn't. I don't condone what they sayl, but hate speech is in the same branch of freedom of speech as caricatures of "how evil muslims are"

Some 32% of respondents to the poll believed “western society is decadent and immoral and that Muslims should seek to bring it to an end”. Of these, the equivalent of some 16,000 declared themselves willing to resort to violence if necessary to achieve this.'

If you know anything about polling people you would know that to obtain results anything like that the author would not have asked that question.

but lemme also pull out some quotes from the same article

Originally Posted by Times

According to a YouGov poll published yesterday, some 6% of British Muslims consider the attacks were justified.

6% is alot different than 25%

Originally Posted by Telegraph

Among those who hold this view, almost all go on to say that Muslims should only seek to bring about change by non-violent means but one per cent, about 16,000 individuals, declare themselves willing, possibly even eager, to embrace violence.

Thanks for leaving that part out for us..

Originally Posted by Times

Meanwhile, one in four British Muslims — while in no way condoning the bombers’ actions — express some understanding for the feelings and motivations that drove them to commit the crimes.

I see...