WATCH: Noble Lords Again Struggle With A Simple Question On Islam

Lord Ahmed of Wimbledon responding to Lord Pearson in House of Lords

Once again the almost sole voice of reason in the UK’s House of Lords on Islam, Lord Pearson of Rannoch, has been annoying everybody with a simple question.

This edition of How Many People Can Avoid Answering A Simple Question™ dates from the 21st December. This Simple Question™ is, as simple questions go, a pretty simple one. To wit it is:

“To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, as part of their antiterrorism strategy, they will encourage leaders of the United Kingdom’s Muslim communities to identify, confront and expose their violent co-religionists.”

Does the noble Lord agree that our Muslim leaders also face the problem that there are more than 100 verses in the Koran which order violence towards non-Muslims and so give theological justification to the jihadists? What does the noble Lord have to say about those verses, not to mention the bellicose example of Muhammad himself, which all Muslims are supposed to follow and which therefore undermine the Government’s strategy?

The bile and vitriol directed at Lord Pearson (in such an insufferably polite way) is pretty barbed. They’re all clinging desperately to the “Religion of Peace™” delusion instead of facing up to some pretty stark conclusions.
Lord Lamont, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered this gem stemming from talking to one, friendly Imam (who must clearly speak for all branches of Sunni And Shia Islam and must be considered by Lord Lamont to be the last word in Islamic studies):

… where it was explained to me that, contrary to what he has said, the word “infidel” or “kafir” does not mean non-Muslims—Christians and Jews—but people who do not act according to God’s will and can apply to Muslims as well.

And which version of “God’s will” is that Mr Imam? Why, of course, it’s the version laid out in the Koran and not the Torah or the Christian Bible. The version of “God’s will” that often contains some fairly repugnant commands as far as Jews and Christians are concerned.
And, yes, that’s exactly the argument ISIS use to behead people who think of themselves as Muslims but are not quite Muslim enough for the ISIS throat slitters. It really is very easy to pull the wool over the eyes of those who so desperately want to be deceived.
If you missed the last episode of this game show, WATCH: House Of Avoiding The Question.
And of course this comes as the press is reporting:

Prevent programme ‘lacking referrals from Muslim community’
Only a fraction of referrals to the government’s anti-terror scheme are coming from Muslims, leading to distrust and threats of a boycott, according to reports