Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1843380)

To try and add perspective again. The O2 arena in London has a capacity of 20,000. That's a lot of people. Let's say there's 1 million people who are willing to commit acts of terror in the name of Islam. You'd have to fill the O2 arena 50 times to accomodate a million people.

Based on the number of terrorist acts currently being committed I'd say that 1 million is a pretty generous assumption.

1 million would represent 0.0625% of the total Muslim population.

Again, people need to put away their broad brushes.

Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1843371)

ftfy

Implying that not being British equates to not speaking (or refusing to speak!) English and that being British would deter people from reading the Quran to people in Arabic (oh the horror!) sounds like pretty plain racism to me.

Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1843381)

You should post this point a few more times in a row.

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1843382)

Actually the second bit is about an Arabic-reading imam who wouldn't want to translate the Quran to English for a student because it's forbidden.

Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1843384)

I will if people still stop getting the point.

Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1843388)

Everyone has understood that point for 91 pages.

Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1843385)

And it's racist to assume that all non-British imams will abide by that (widely contested) fatwa.

Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1843393)

Then why still all of the broad brush strokes?

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1843394)

I get how it's prejudiced but how is it racist? Is the guy talking about white British imams being the preferred alternative? Sounds more like nationalism to me.