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Very interesting article -
Original article can be seen at :http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3683481/Moderate-Muslims-failing-to-combat-extremism-says-Islamic-Foundation.html
Moderate Muslims have failed to do enough to combat the rise of extremism, a leading Islamic commentator has said.
Dilwar Hussain, head of the policy research centre at the Islamic Foundation, said Muslims did not challenge sufficiently strongly so-called "preachers of hate".
"Much could be said about Britain's foreign policy mistakes in stoking injustice, leading to anger and frustration," he said in a report published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)
"But to blame only such foreign affairs for terrorism is not nearly enough.
"Muslims did not challenge strongly enough the preachers of hate and the peddlers of simplistic, yet nihilistic, solutions that were able to tap into that anger and frustration.
"Nor did they create adequate religious institutions or leadership that could connect with young people and educate them in an idiom they would understand, something that could have protected them when challenged by extremists' discourse."
In his essay, Mr Hussain argued for the development of a liberal brand of Islam tailored to British conditions.
His remarks were made in the report Faith in the Nation, a collection of essays by leading figures from the five largest faith communities about areas such as British identity and faith.
The report, with a foreword by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, includes essays by the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster.
Co-editors Zaki Cooper and Guy Lodge, said: "Faith-based activities, that are consistent with the core principles of British democracy, can make an important contribution to the life and cohesion of communities and provide vital sources of civic mobilisation and social campaigning."
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