He added: 'Many don't want to get addicted to drink, so they look for another outlet - for them religion is always there.'
How true! Religion replaces drugs&alcohol. Are we better off?
Findings like this produce complex reactions in young British Muslims like Fatema Dossa, 24, a pharmacy graduate from Eastcote, London. 'There is no doubt that the double standards of Western foreign policy have an effect on Muslim youth. You can understand the motives of suicide bombers, but to kill people is different. It is not going to achieve anything.
I wouldn't say this is a complex reaction. It's the difference between explanation and justification. Why is it so hard for some to understand? Oy weh!
In Glasgow, a woman sharing the same surname as one of the bombers said her children had been spat on.
No need to cross the 'pond' in order to find ignorance and stupidity.
'We need to hear about people being arrested for these attacks on Muslims who are threefold victims. They are targets of terrorists, targets of the Islamophobic backlash and they will be targets of anti-terror legislation.'
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