http://news.ft.com/cms/s/58fa26fc-a5a3-11da-bf34-0000779e2340.html
Martin Arnold
"The UK, in particular, has made a 'serious error' in 'encouraging and accepting' multiculturalism. 'The London bombings last year were a brutal wake-up call,' he claims.
But British Muslims also share some of the blame, he argues, saying that some are interested in 'living only in their Islamism, only in the time of the prophet. But listen, I say we are in 2006. I contest their reactionary, archaic, medieval way of living Islam, and their way of living recurring ritualism.' Reacting to a recent opinion poll showing that 40 per cent of British Muslims favour introducing Sharia, or Islamic law, in areas where they are in the majority, he says: 'That is once again a return to the past. I don't think French Muslims would accept this.'"
