The problem as I see it is that non-Muslims are now being afflicted with the same disease that affected non-Blacks in the 1970s.
Someone recently posted a nasty little rant here a couple of days back stating "whenever you see rapists and murderers in the papers, they're always black".
This is where we're sleepwalking to - non-Muslims are beginning to see all Muslims as a danger...take the whole veil fiasco. Average, boring women who haven't done anything to draw attention to themselves (ironically) are targetted for no other reason but their 'otherness'.
I bet that the average non-Muslim (and by that, I mean 'non-Muslim', not white, sees the greater Muslim community as being implicitly guilty of 'turning a blind eye'.
This is something that I've seen time and again in other communities. We're all guilty...it's just by degree.
I'm exasperated by the 'Oh, let's see what Muslims get up to behind closed doors' attitude.
Okay - let's check out what the Muslim care workers, nurses, doctors and civil engineers are doing...
Naaah...let's not - we're not interested in balance.