Honeydip I know Muslims and there just like anyone else I know, but they are secular in outlook and life style, nice people, nice kids – religious in name.
I would expect people to people to base the UK on Ian Huntley, if we had a religious system that said he was tempted by females and the fact that they were uncovered, led to those deaths. He received a fine and the government went along with it.
I am very sure there are a lot of people in the Muslim world who find it distasteful and wrong, but they don’t speak up, no democracy and a barbaric society.
In the west I rarely hear any dissenting voices by the Islamic community, because the “devout” believe in the Quran and the word of god. I truly believe that they agree with these actions and until these people, who have the freedoms of a modern western society, speak out in a consistent, rational and humane way against these barbarities, how can you expect those of us who see and understand the barbarity, inhumanity and downright irrationality of these acts, to defend them?