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A solution to The Muslim Question

BSSC: "In the autumn of 2007, new Prime Minister John Reid introduced an array of tough new measures in order to win the War on Terror. We’ve long since accepted the necessity of defeating evil so it’s easy to forget that at the time, many of the measures were considered hugely controversial [...] Perhaps the most controversial was the National Muslim Roulette. The idea that one random British Muslim would be killed every day (and two on Bank Holidays) until all Islamists surrendered seemed like a step too for many people. Not everyone had understood that moderate Muslims’ unwillingness to defeat Islamic extremism made them equally responsible for terrorism and that they could be punished accordingly [...] When the license to operate the NMR and to broadcast the daily executions was first awarded to Killalot (of Muslims), some even attempted to take to the streets in protest. Their applications to protest were of course refused under the new Defence of Democracy Act 2007 but the intention was there. Looking back, it is remarkable to think that it took so long for the self-evident justice of the NMR to be fully absorbed into the national conscience."

(This post has clearly been written with inspiration from the excellent Time Trumpet.)

The post follows a recent poll which claimed that over half the country feared Islam as a religion.

The three-letter acronyms

Whilst some concentrate on "exclusion" and "alientation" debate to highlight differences between Muslims in the US and the UK, I think one crucial point has been missed by bloggers, pundits and critics: the TLAs.

American Muslims have four-letter acronyms to speak in their name: ICNA, ISNA, CAIR. Muslims in Britain, however, have three-letter acronyms to speak in our name: MCB, MAB, SMC. We do have MPAC; however, their inspiration is clearly AIPAC (being Jews they're one step ahead of Muslims with a five-letter acronym).

So, I propose all Muslim institutions in the United Kingdom adopt another letter to aid our integration into mainstream society.

I will be writing to Ruth Kelly to let her know about my startling findings.