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"It's very important that we should not demonise ordinary, law-abiding, very decent Muslims which of course is the vast majority in this country"....
[But] "There is a sense in which the moderate, nice religious people – nice Christians, nice Muslims – make the world safe for extremists.... Because the moderates are so nice we all are brought up with the idea that there's something good about religion faith. That there's something good about bringing children up to have a faith. " Which means to believe something without evidence and without the need for justifying it.
"They're entitled simply to say 'oh that's my faith, I believe it, you're not allowed to question it and you're not allowed to ask me why I hold it'.
"Once you teach people that that's a legitimate reason for believing something then you as it were give a licence to the extremists who say 'my belief is that I'm supposed to be a suicide bomber or I'm supposed to blow up buildings – it's my faith and you can't question that."
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