When presented with the challenges of Islam, it seems that the tendency within Western culture is to continually vacillate between trying to make the Muslim a community completely beyond critique, on the one hand, and a knee-jerk hysteria of any and all Muslims, on the other. It seems that the former creates enough public frustration that the latter becomes an inevitable consequence. If this is true then it is in the best interest of the Muslim community to start encouraging the type of robust debate that so many of them have been trying to suppress. Here is an article I wrote a while go for Christian Voice about the suppression of free speech in Britain that has happened under the banner of tolerance towards Islam (but which has nothing to do with true tolerance).
