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A comment on a weblog regarding the current tendency for those opposed to Muslims to quote a piece of research which suggests that a quarter of us believe in conspiracy theories regarding the massacres on the London transport system in July 2005:

redleader, Comment No. 626343, June 8 15:12, GBR

EdmundWest,

I agree that the 24% of Muslims polled, who believe that the London tube attacks were carried out by some third party unknown, are deluding themselves. And, of course, ignorance is always, to a greater or lesser degree, an evil to be combatted.

What I don’t understand about you, and those like you, is why you’re brandishing this finding in our faces as something terribly sinister and an omen of terrible things to come.

I mean, there’s one thing for sure about this 24%, isn’t there? The sort of person so convinced of the essential goodness of Islam that they cannot accept that even the most red-handed co-religionist can possibly have committed an act of violence – that’s not the sort of person whose ever going to cause you any trouble, is it? That is the sort of person you can happily ask to babysit your teenage daughter, to take your used notes to the bank, or happily sit next to on the tube. Maybe you wouldn’t want their help with your Political Studies homework, that’s all. So – what’s your point?

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/inayat_bunglawala/2007/06/mystery_demo.html