Schizophrenia

I am sorry to raise the subject again and hope you don't believe I am becoming a one trick pony, but I am continually observing discussions and debate concerning the enquiry in the media and within Parliament where a number of Parliamentary  committees are undertaking, in light of the recent attacks in Paris an investigation as to the health or otherwise of the communities within Britain. 

I am concerned at the way the 'non Muslim', the parliamentarian, and media commentator has tied itself in knots by avoiding asking certain questions. 

It is also amazing to me to find a lack of understanding, within these committees, of the historical substance of the Muslim faith and the empires which were sustained by it. 

One of the people who the committee were questioning mentioned his approval of The Ottoman Caliphate (1362 - 1864) especially the multicultural aspect of its rule.  I was extremely surprised to hear the chairman, a senior figure, balk at the mention and the suggested relevance of a period of benign rule by the Muslims of many disparate people, under what can only be described as, cross national multiculturalism. His ignorance of the outstandingly benign rule of this Empire in which nations and tribes were (after their defeat) brought into what could be described as local governance was a dereliction of the position he holds. 

That apart, and I mention it to balance my other observation.  That the claim of British Muslims of their loyalty to their British nationality, obtained through having been born here and having grown up here has, in my opinion, to have the caveat, that being British comes a distant second to being a Muslim.

The force majeure, the life blood which flows through their veins, is to be a follower of Mohamed and everything else is secondary.

It could be argued that when a religious belief becomes superior to a belief in ones nationality, with all that goes along with belonging and identifying with ones nationality, then we have a schizophrenic situation where the heart and the head are in unison but, under certain conditions, there will be opposed to the nation in which you live. 

Given the conflicts which are raging in the Muslim world, some of these conflicts in opposition to the interests of the British nation, then the sense of loyalty has to be questioned. 

It's no good avoiding this question and hoping it will go away is a question our leaders and the main commentators are afraid to ask.