Miss England Has the Answer!

"Stop Stereotyping Muslims". Hammasa Kohistani is the first Muslim woman to be crowned Miss England and will represent England in the Miss World Pagent. Kohistani sees this as a"sugar coating" for Muslims who feel otherwise alienated. The Miss World and Miss Universe Pagents have sparked outrage in the Muslim community in past years over the scant clothing and non-adherance to muslim traditions concering womens dress. Ms. Kohistani does not seem to be worried about this however and sights Muslim stereotyping as a major concern in her community and in Britain as a whole.

She said: "The attitude towards Muslims has got worse over the year. Also the Muslims' attitude to British people has got worse."

"Even moderate Muslims are turning to terrorism to prove themselves. They think they might as well support it because they are stereotyped anyway. It will take a long time for communities to start mixing in more."

Miss England also went on to forward the idea that when the British Government asked Muslim leaders to handle the problem (of terrorism) better within their own communities, they were actually causing more terrorism.

Miss Kohistani said: "Tony Blair addressed Muslims in particular, telling them that they need to sort out the problem within. That was a huge stereotype of the Islamic community. Even the more moderate Muslims have been stereotyped negatively and feel they have to take actions to prove themselves."

By actions, she means terrorist violence, not actions that would prove the PM Blair wrong. Miss Kohistani is only one woman and only a model at that. But if her feelings are correct and I dare say they are, it illustrates a serious problem within the British and probably the world muslim community at large. Islamic Terrorism is a real issue, not something that white, western governments made up to oppress Arab people. There is deep seeded mistrust among westerners toward Muslims and their religion and who can blame them? Nearly 100% of Terrorists are Muslims and they act from a religous piety that justifies the killing of innocents in the name of Islam. Miss Kohistani is correct when she says it will take a long time. It will take a long time and a lot of effort on the part of good, peaceful moderate muslims to show not only Britain that they are not all bad people and that Islam is not a religon of death and mayhem, but the entire world. Turning to violence and terror to "prove themsleves", will only further alienate them and prove the point of those who would keep those divisions alive. It is a cop-out to imply that the West's fear of Muslims and their religon is a justification for more violence, whether based on pride or just sheer stupidity. I echo PM Blair in pleading with the Muslim community to stand up and fight the extremist fringes of their religon, denounce their actions publicly and often and begin on a road to establishing themsleves as peaceful people again. As I have heard military people say on more than one occasion, "You can't put the sh*t back in the goose, you just have to clean up the mess and move on". Truer words were never spoken!
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UPDATE: 1:30pm PST

U.S. Muslims Warn of Threat From Within - Makes my original point and thank God Muslim leaders somewhere are getting it finally!