The head of the Muslim Council of Britain said that -
Britain will face have to deal with up to two million Islamic terrorists unless there is an end to 'demonising' of Muslims, the leader of the most influential Muslim organisation has said. Treating all Muslims as if they were terrorists will encourage large numbers to become terrorists. … Dr Bari declared: "Some police officers and sections of the media are demonising Muslims, treating them as if they are all terrorists, and that encourages other people to do the same. If that demonisation continues, then Britain will have to deal with two million Muslim terrorists, 700,000 of them in London. "If you attack a whole community, it becomes despondent and aggressive."
 Will this aggressive tactic be effective? Take a look at this article by Daniel Pipes.
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3914
Best regards, Ben
Author "Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed" http://www.bensimonton.com
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Comments: 6
When the Germans demonised the Jews in the 1930's, these did not become despondent nor aggressive. That did not help them at all, did it?
Are Muslims being harassed in the UK? Is the article correctly characterizing the Muslim response?
Thanks, Ben
Years ago I published a blog suggesting Germans were still being lightly discriminated in the UK, and amid the "No we don't" cries of my British networkers there was this German lady confirming my feeling
It may all be down to minutiae. Say, for example, if a German starts talking and people in the pub start doing "goose steps", they may think it as a funny joke: for the German it may be a significan humiliation.
All this can easily add up and become hard to tolerate.
In Italy years ago a foreign journalist protested the fact that his adopted Asian son was the only person in the whole family routinely searched at airports. Were the border police consciously racist? I don't think so. Were they racist in the eyes of the boy, and the family? Yes they were
I would take Dr Bari's words about demonization very seriously then, and act as if they were true.
The alternative means dumping a few terrorists and a large, peaceful population together. Hardly the best way forward
Best regards, Ben
Author "Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed"
I am rather surprised that Daniel Pipes believes the UK public is "the weakest link". The immediate, unanimous, courageous reaction to the July 7 bombings seems to contradict that thought