British Muslims: 'You are lazy if you say extremism is not Islamic'

as far as I'm aware most religions have extremism, its unfair that the rest of the faith get blamed for the extremists stupid behaviour

Agreed.

The problem is that we haven't seen Christian, Hindu, Seikh, Buddhist or any other religious nutters operating in the UK, Europe or North America

And because the wealthy places don't get affected people don't realise they don't exist. It was like the Ebola thing no one cared when africans died then the minute they think rich people will get it they start caring

I didn't care about Ebola because it didn't impact on me, or anybody else I know in the slightest. That doesn't make me, or anybody else bad. It's human nature only to care about you're immediate environment.

as far as I'm aware most religions have extremism, its unfair that the rest of the faith get blamed for the extremists stupid behaviour

You don't even think thats sad?

Who's blaming ordinary Muslims? Blaming someone isn't the same as saying that their intervention would be valuable, which is what we are (or should be) saying.

Also, extremism in other faiths patently isn't as prominent as Islamic extremism. You've identified that people seem to care about it more because it hits 'rich people' or whatever, but that isn't the issue. What is the issue, is that if religious extremists massacre people in Africa, it is extremely difficult to know how to deal with it, because it is already so fraught with other problems. Conversely, we know something seriously out of the ordinary is happening if there are deaths here.

This doesn't mean we care less about Africans or extremism from other groups, it just means that its something we're less able to deal with, or that the steps with which to deal with it are less obvious.

as far as I'm aware most religions have extremism, its unfair that the rest of the faith get blamed for the extremists stupid behaviour

Non-violent muslims being complicit is part of the problem.

what do you mean complicit?

What I mean is not standing up and saying that these attacks are wrong. We hear a lot about about how islam wants itself to take over the world and how jihad is mentioned in holy texts, so non muslims often assume that moderate muslims secretly support islamification and jihad.

They need to make it clear that they don't.

Otherwise, many will assume that they do. As I said, it should be in muslim's best interests to denounce terrorism if they are to better assimilate into western society.

"The Prime Minister's official spokesman confirmed Mr Cameron agreed with Culture Secretary Sajid Javid who yesterday said it was "absolutely fair to say that there is a special burden on Muslim communities because, whether we like it or not, these terrorists call themselves Muslims".

"Speaking on Radio 5 Live, Mr Javid added that it was "lazy" and "wrong" to say that France's terror attacks had nothing to do with Muslims."

I tend to agree with Mr Javid. It is concerning that not all muslims are condemning extremism, despite it being in their best interest to distance themselves from it.

Is it the case that many muslims secretly sympathise with the terrorists?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/paris-terror-attacks-muslims-have-a-special-burden-to-track-down-islamist-extremists-says-david-cameron-9972878.html

Well, anybody who tolerates me and my way of life shall be tolerated in return. I seek only to defend my way of life, not attack others'.