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Originally Posted by Tom Wilde
Then the answer is to improve people's understanding of Islam so that they can see the vast ideological gulf separating Islamic nationalist terrorists from other Muslims. This may not be such a good short-term vote winner as the BNP scare tactic of smearing all Muslims as being the same - but it is a lot more honest.
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I have previously stated that most of the opponents of Islam who support the BNP know next to nothing about Islam - and do not want to learn anything about Islam - but the fact is, they hate it and want it out of Britain.
There is an old saying that you can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink. If the British people do not want to know anything about Islam other than anything to do with it being a thoroughly evil cult, then how do you propose to change this? Who exactly do you expect to teach Islam to the masses?
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So you think we should get into a competition with the BNP to see who can lie most outrageously about Muslims? I don't think so. 
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I don't want any lies. I only want the truth.
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I assume by ethnic Muslims you mean ones belonging to ethnic minorities?
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Yes, as opposed to those of British or European bloodlines.
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I have read some bits of it, but not all. (Haven't read the entire Bible either. Who has the time?)
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Some members of the BNP have put in the time and effort to read the Koran. Why haven't you?
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I once knew a Muslim woman who did an academic study on the status of women in Islam. Her conclusion was that the Koran is pretty forward looking on women's equality, and it was misunderstandings of the Koran by the tribes in 7th century Arabia which are to blame. They read into the Koran all the various repressive attitudes they already had previously about the place of women, what they could and couldn't do, what they should wear, etc etc. Much of which 'illiberal stuff' then became incorporated in sharia law. She gave me various examples. Anyway, this is handy because the Koran is fixed and unchangeable (being supposedly the direct words of God) but the interpretations of God's will are agreed to be human inventions and can be changed by scholarship and argument. Which is what is gradually happening. So I would say that as a liberal I have nothing against Islam itself but that I greatly prefer some interpretations of Islam over others.
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Then why isn't this woman more outspoken against the fundamentalist imams and Islamic community leaders in Britain?