It's funny isn't it. On the Ched Evans thread you have people saying they would stop supporting Spurs if we signed a rapist.
Yet you don't see many Muslims turning in their badges when **** like this goes down.
This is precisely the problem.
Imagine the massive uproar if a main-line Christian (say Catholic or Church of England) Bishop came out and said women shouldn't work and should be segregated from men and that their education should be limited, that it is forbidden for a muslim woman to marry a non-muslim, that it is forbidden for a muslim man to marry a non-muslim, unless they are 'people of the book' (Christian or Jew), that homosexuality is forbidden, that the education curriculum should be curtailed in terms of the sciences and geography to remove 'anti-islamic' parts such as evolution of man, that art, music, photography and film are forbidden.
These are all doctrines currently being taught by a variety of mainline, considered-moderate, islamic leaders right here in the UK.
Leaving extremism and terrorism aside, you look at what happened with the trojan-horse stuff at school.
This was a variety of schools in Birmingham, Greater Manchester and Bradford areas, where the intake is largely from local muslim communities. Pressure was put on the school governers and teaching staff, who were often non-muslims, white/british, to segregate men from women, to restrict the teaching of certain parts of the curriculum, to exclude women from sports/games. This was often with the full support of majority of parents and local religious leaders, hence the massive pressure put on the school governors and teaching staff and hence why they caved in and gave in to the pressure, so school inspectors found schools where men and women were segregated, where men were taught a reduced curriculum which ommiitted stuff like the fact that humans evolved from apes and the universe and Earth were billions of years old and women were taught an even more reduced curriculum and were excluded from careers advice and sports.
This was not only approved, but encouraged by the local muslim communities and the white british people in charge of the schools gave into them out of fear of being seen to be 'intolerant' of their religion.
Actually, some of the attitudes on this thread are a massive symptom of the problem.
Young muslims from the UK, even though they are born here, are isolated, because the teachings of islam in their current form isolate them. Mixing with non-believers is frowned upon. Marriage or relationships are actively prohibited. The requirement of Halal and the prohibiting of alcohol, music and arts isolate them from socialising with the rest of society.
These are MODERATE islamic views currently put forward by religious leaders. Is it no wonder that currently young muslims are ending up feeling isolated from the society they grew up in and full of confusion and anger? Is it no wonder that there is a problem with young gangs of muslim men using women as sex slaves and objects with no thought of them being fellow human-beings? Its not much of a leap from current moderate islamic teaching to the extremist teaching.
What Islam needs to do is modernise and adjust its central ideology, in order to marginalise and expose the extremist ideology and better integrate muslims with the rest of the world. If this isn't done then things are only going to get a lot worse.
