Mudar Zahran, A Jordanian Muslim living in the UK, asks the question: Who is to blame for Islamophobia in the UK? He also answers his own question: "It is our own fault", says he. Read on.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4186/islamophobia-uk
"If you look at the London Tube Bombing of 7/7; the Madrid Train Bombing; two attacks on the World Trade Center; the murders of Lee Rigby, Theo Van Gogh, Daniel Pearl, Nick Berg, Ilan Halimi, and countless other attack and threats, how can we honestly expect people not to be "Islamophobic"? It would appear we have no one to blame but ourselves.
If we Muslims are actually opposed to these Islamist hate preachers, why are we failing to take a unanimous public stance against them, to disown and isolate them from our community?"
"A phobia, by definition, is an irrational fear: a fear of something that is not real -- such as being afraid that there are snakes in the next room."
Thank you, Mr Zahran.
Does this gentleman not put it in perfect perspective? You may be the most decent, peace-loving, pluralistic Muslim in the world, but if you are not speaking out like Mr Zahran, you are irrelevant. If you are silent and yet complaining about Islamophobia in the face of all the horrors going on around the world and in this case in the UK with Anjem Choudary and his gang of thugs, then I have no sympathy for you. My sympathy goes to the man who wrote this piece.
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