British PM draws anger after saying Muslims must do more to counter ISIL ideology

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AP

June 19 2015

 

Prime Minister DAVID CAMERON charged Friday that some British Muslims quietly condone the radical ideology of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), prompting accusations that he is scapegoating the large and diverse community.

 

Speaking at a security conference in Slovakia, Cameron urged British Muslims to do more to stop the group from recruiting young Britons. He said disaffected youths are being drawn to an ideology that believes "the West is bad and democracy is wrong, that women are inferior, that homosexuality is evil."

 

Saying this ideology "is quietly condoned" among some Muslims, Cameron blamed radicalization in part on "people who hold some of these views who don't go as far as advocating violence, but who do buy into some of these prejudices, giving the extreme Islamist narrative weight."

 

About 2.7 million of Britain's 64 million people are Muslim. Police say at least 700 of them have traveled to ISIL territory, including a 17-year-old who blew himself up in Iraq last week and three sisters from northern England believed to have gone to Syria with their nine children.

 

Some Muslim groups reacted to Cameron's comments with anger. Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of Muslim think-tank the Ramadhan Foundation, called them "deeply offensive."

 

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