When it comes to solving the Muslim problem, nothing will come of nothing

Writing in the Mail, Melanie Phillips criticizes the

government’s utterly flawed strategy for dealing with Islamist extremism. The flaw lies in its definition of the problem as ‘violent’ extremism.

It refuses to acknowledge that even people who do not themselves advocate violence but who promote extremist and seditious views, such as the overthrow of British society and the imposition of Islamic sharia law, are a threat to this country by inciting hatred and resentment, thus swelling the sea in which violence swims. [Emphasis added.]

Not only, she continues, does the government fail to recognize this threat, but it goes to the insane and evil extreme of using the “non-violent” Muslim extremists as advisors on what to do about the violent Muslim extremists. Thus, as Phillips describes it, there are two sides to the problem: “the government’s dalliance with extremists,” and its “refusal to address the core of the Islamist threat to this country.”

Concerning the dalliance, she calls on the government to stop using “non-violent” Muslim extremists as advisors. And concerning the threat that she says these “non-violent” Muslim extremists represent to Britain, whether they are used as government advisors or not, what does she propose doing?

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LA writes:

Following Phillips’s article, there is a comment by Jack in Liverpool, concerning the incident with which the article began—Muslim protests in Luton against British soldiers returning from Iraq. I don’t know if Jack means what he’s saying or if he’s sending up the left:

I have to say these protests are uncalled for. These soldiers are only doing what they were told to do. However as a multicultural society we must not be biased towards any religious groups. If these were christian protesters this would not have even been on the news. You must now realise our society is now based around atheism and multiculturalism. Protests are allowed through our constitution. They are completely within the law and are certainly not extreme. Nationalism is the true enemy we must fight it at all costs and embrace people of all backgrounds. We are all human. Not one species and another.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 11, 2009 02:55 PM | Send