Taking Islam seriously 101

Fourth, troublemakers, regardless of ethnic stock or religion, will always find an excuse for violence. They do not need to look hard. For instance in Catholic Poland, a year after the end of World War II, a lynch mob saw fit to butcher forty Jews on the back of a canard of a kidnapping of a child. And there wasn’t a Muslim in sight!

Mr Premier, in order to address the agitators amongst the rioters, you must examine their actions and motives; if necessary, you must ask uncomfortable questions; see the extremist elements for what they are and not how some may paint them and formulate a just response.

It’s not easy being Premier.

And harder still being a wise one.