27.05.2013-8:44:24 :: Remember, remember, the velvet November

Now Britain has had its Aboutaleb moment, in the wake of the ghastly killing of a soldier on the streets of London. This time, the bonne parole came from Ajmal Masroor, a telegenic imam-cum-broadcaster-cum-budding politician of Bangladeshi origin. "If you dislike Britain so much...why don't you just hand your passport over and leave? And if you dislike the policies of the government...participate in the electoral process, stand for election," he rhetorically told the soldier's attacker, in an interview with Sky TV which won big approval ratings on social media. At a time when ugly and vindictive threats were starting to hurtle through cyber-space, this was just the sort of message that many citizens wanted to hear...from a Muslim.

link - http://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2013/05/new-voices-european-islam