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Quote: “I am rather getting tired of the deafening silence of an immense majority of British Muslims when it comes to condemning terrorism.”

Deafening silence? What, do we each run newspapers that have a daily circulation of 7,800,000 like The Sun? Or do we have access to an audience like BBC Radio 1 (9.8 million listeners daily), Radio 2 (13 million), Radio 4 (9.6 million) or Radio Five Live (6.5 million)? Do we have megaphones connected to our flag poles, from which we broadcast our daily sermons to passers-by? Do we get invited to stand on soap boxes in our town centres to preach to the locals? Do we, the immense majority of British Muslims, get invited to scrawl our condemnation on the walls with cans of spray paint? Are we invited to send spam to every mailbox in the land, five times an hour day after day in which we provide a hyperlink to our comdemnation? Must each of us send a mailout to the United Kingdom’s 60,776,238 residents just to make sure? And must each of us who possesses a website continually reiterate our stance, just on the offchance that our readership has grown from eight to three million?

I am not getting tired of the deafening silence of the immense majority of the British public on any number of issues, because I recognise that the immense majority only ever talk to members of their own family, friends and work colleagues. Or am I mistaken? Have sixty million people informed me what they had for dinner tonight? Have they told me they enjoyed tonight’s TV? Have they explained their political views? Have they made everything clear, beyond any doubt?

I believe I have made absolutely clear my comdemnation of all forms of terrorism. The deafening silence is because nobody is listening.