Yes but crucially it does sort of hole the idea of blaming the whole religion below the water line
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?
Radical Islam didn't come from the Indian subcontinent, j. It came from the Middle East.
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.
Ok, let's leave the polls as we can always question their veracity
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?
Yeah, but you believe in Arsene Wenger

And Arsene Wenger Himself believes in "belief".
Ultimately it's all about how you manage the thing.
Yeah, those poor disenfranchised PhD students who flew those planes into the Twin Towers
But they're still coming, j. That rather hurts your point, doesn't it?
No I'm not! There was that one unfortunate incident, I admit.
But that was just a slip.
Of course, they had a proud history of enthusiastic subjugating themselves, didn't they?
Not many moderate ones, no
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.