And don't jump on me: that's a quote from Muslim Irshad Manji commenting on the latest displays of OTT offendedness. He also says something very significant, I think. "I am offended that so many other Muslims are not offended enough to demonstrate widely against God’s self-appointed ambassadors. We complain to the world that Islam is being exploited by fundamentalists, yet when reckoning with the opportunity to resist their clamour en masse, we fall curiously silent. In a battle between flaming fundamentalists and mute moderates, who do you think is going to win?"
He then goes on to show how the odd time when people have demonstrated in favour of more moderation, there have been good things come of it.
Salman Rushdie is not the problem. Muslims are -Times Online:
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