I am quite capable of criticising Islam naomi… i think that it does an awful lot of harm to the people in it especially the ones that don’t fit into the “traditional” family structure… it often provides a religious justification for bigotry (against jews and gay people for example), i do not approve of the way it tends to treat women, i think the instructions against alcohol and pork (two things of which I am fond!!) are joyless miserable and anti-fun… i think the hostility toward non- muslims depicting mohammed is creepy and authoritarian too…
I think all of those things but I also think muslims are people who do not deserve to be demonised… and I think the climate of fear around them - or any other minority - is very dangerous and that the horror over attacks like this is often used to dehumanize and whip up hatred against people who have no involvement in them…