Rhythm Thief:
But Islamic leaders have also - for the most part - strongly condemned the more extreme sharia law nutters. Sure, there’s the odd one who doesn’t, but then I’m tolerably certain there were catholic leaders preaching hatred against the proddies back in the day. Probably still are. You can believe otherwise, but you’re just falling for the oldest trick in the book … muslims are today’s bogeymen, just as catholics (and, by extension, the Irish generally) were in the 1970s and 1980s.
Being warned beforehand is little consolation for being blown to bits, by the way. Remember the Birmingham pub bombings? Or Omagh? Just as cowardly and despicable as the London tube bombings, and about as representative of the religion as a whole.
The Catholic community is basically governed,at least in it’s moral thinking,by what the Vatican says and which is reflected in the countries with majority catholic populations like Italy and Spain etc.Whereas the Muslim community admittedly has different sub cultures and sects but it’s fair to say that,with the exception of places like Bosnia,it’s basically governed in it’s moral thinking by it’s leadership and example in places like Saudi Arabia,Iran,and Pakistan,none of which are exactly shining examples of tolerance and civilised morals and it’s the latter of those examples where the uk muslim population mostly takes it’s leadership from.IE comparing those who take their leadership from what the Vatican says as opposed to what the leadership of Saudi,Iran,and Pakistan says is like comparing chalk and cheese.