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Is there any hope of peace in the Middle East? I don’t know about that.

What about at our local mosque? All peace, love and harmony? Hardly.

Jummah prayer ended today with shouting, effing and blinding, pushing and shoving.

“If you bring your kids to mosque again,” yells one of the men, “I’ll ducking smash your ducking face in.”

A crowd of men scuffle on the stairs, raising their voices, drowning out the imam’s duas, attacking each other for knowing nothing about their religion.

If the traditional salutation of the Muslims is Salamun Alaikum — peace be upon you — today it’s been replaced with the F-Bomb. Oh, and the sectarian W-Bomb too, reserved for all but the narrow tribal clique who believe themselves alone True Believers™.

What a lovely end to proceedings. So much for Salamun qaulam mir Rabbir Rahim!