Gromit, //But the young are not being radicalise at mosques they are watching stuff on the internet, and in contact with people already there via twitter.//
Nonsense! The internet most certainly plays a big part, but young people are being radicalised in mosques, and schools, and colleges, and universities.
This is a letter from a Muslim published in the London Evening Standard last night:
//As a British Muslim I feel increasingly let down. High profile Muslim spokespeople have, rather than explain the truth - that Charlie Hebdo ridicules one and all - painted it as spreading anti-Muslim hate. After any atrocity, Muslim voices propagate the idea of valid grievance: for instance that the West holds Muslim lives cheap, without mentioning that the biggest killers of Muslims are Muslims.
Speakers from organisations portrayed as mainstream are invited to mosques and universities and preach that in an "ideal state" apostates should be killed, homosexuality is filthy etc. That the Government should be concerned and is applying scrutiny through Ofsted and the Charity Commission is again condemned as an "Islamophobic witch-hunt".
It's time the media stopped chasing voices deemed "authentic", who help feed the victim narrative, and give space to British Muslims challenging the problems we have from within.//