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You seem to find no moral problem with taking out a whole village of them in an air strike, calling the people who scream for "death to the inidels" as barbaric and evil. Then when the next terrorist atrocity happens over here you call for whatever the turn-em-to-glass de jour is with a straight face.
How's that for moral relativism?
You don't think the Burqa is a Bengali or Pakistani garment, do you? No, it's a Saudi fashion that has caught on and deliberately radicalised what were moderate muslims to such an extent that it has almost become the mainstream.
So I'm afraid this isn't one you can lay at the Raj's door. This has been a choice taken by large groups of muslims in this country.
But let me ask you, do you believe - instinctively or anecedotely - that many or some moderate Muslims hold values and beliefs about women and freedom of speech that are in conflict with those that we can agree are pillars of contemporary western society?
I was poking fun at the idea of "all those muslamics, coming over here".
Not only as we'd managed to sujugate their entire continent but also as a great deal of the islamic immigration in this country was people being invited over to prop up failing industry, which subsequently failed anyway.
And Arsene Wenger Himself believes in "belief".
Ultimately it's all about how you manage the thing.
But that was just a slip.
Quite a lot, but not all, of the first generation ones do though.
The thing is, since the turn of the century I've seen a hardening of positions on both sides with "modern secular" fundamentalists one one side and traditional muslims on the other entrenching further into positions of mutual suspicion and mistrust. You only have to look at the whole Trojan Horse hysteria to see how that actually materialises in real life.
I'm trying to point out just how unhelpful to the whole idea of defeating isis this thing about all muslims being accountable is but I dont seem to be making headway.