Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, Director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity describes the futility of asking Muslim leaders and community leaders to work for integration with British society:
- Tony Blair and the other ministers don't take the religious hatred and glorification of terrorism in Islam seriously;
- they see through the prism of their own secularism;
- Muslim clerics, on the other hand, take their religion seriously and regard themselves as locked in mortal combat with secularism;
- secular society values choice but there is no such animal in Islam as all is divinely ordained and "Man must obey";
- Islamic clerics do not believe in pluralism and believe that Islam "must be the dominant religion" and they aim to achieve dominance;
- these clerics do not believe in integration;
- the Islamic Council of Europe established the fundamental rule, namely, never dilute, never integrate
- Muslim areas will then push for autonomy and cry discrimination, racism, and Islamophobia of any object;
- a Sharia Law Council for the UK already exists;
- concessions are already being made; and
- some Muslims now even advocate the legalization of polygamy.
As solutions to the problems caused by hard line Muslim zealots, Dr. Sookhdeo advocates:
- dealing with the "real Muslim majority, not with the self-appointed "community leaders" who don't actually represent anyone;
- prohibiting faith-based education;
- requiring English only as the language of education;
- reversing the policy of political multiculturalism; and
- insisting on acceptance of secularism as a non-negotiable condition of living in Britain.
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The day is coming when British Muslims form a state within a state." By Alasdair Palmer, telegraph.co.uk, 2/19/06.
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