gnjsdad,
Here is an interesting article for you:
** The New York Times reports that the forward engagement of Islamofascists have empowered Muslim moderates and liberals to
marginalize the radicals as never before, even within the mosques themselves:**
Inayat Bunglawala had just finished his talk on “Islamophobia and the Media” at the London Muslim Center when a man stood and berated him. “Where is your beard and your thobe?” Mr. Bunglawala said the man shouted, referring to the long garment worn by some Muslim men. “How dare you come to the mosque without them. How dare you preach about the new Koran.” Then something unusual happened on that day in January, said Mr. Bunglawala and others who were there. The several Islamic militants in the room were chased outside by the crowd, and a fistfight broke out. The militants, followers of Abu Abdullah, a firebrand imam, quickly retreated. “These jihadis are like schoolhouse bullies,” said Mr. Bunglawala, the communications director for the Muslim Council of Britain, the country’s largest Muslim organization. “We sense a feeling of enough is enough now.”
If the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks plunged the Islamic population in Britain and elsewhere into a state of alarm and dread, then the Iraq war and its aftermath have had an unforeseen consequence here: they have helped galvanize and embolden a core group of mainstream British Muslims to find its voice and make demands.
Mainstream Muslims have lined up against the war and Prime Minister Tony Blair, opposed new restrictive antiterror laws and warned of the dangers of Islamophobia. But they are also speaking out with uncharacteristic fervor against Islamic militants, making sharp moves to isolate them, and working to strengthen ties between moderates and the British establishment.
