It is always very heartening when decent, sensible Muslims who truly abhor the extremism and violence being perpetrated in the name of their religion write to me to express their support for my views. Two such people have written following my talk at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC on the themes of my new book, Londonistan, and its misleading report in a paper in Pakistan (see post below). Here is what the first correspondent had to say:

I just read a review about your book in one of English papers published in Pakistan by the paper’s correspondent in Washington, who heard you speak at one of the institutes here. I am writing to tell you that as a Pakistani Muslim, who is frightened by the rise of Islamofascists around the world, I support and admire your views. I think that the time has come for those, who are interesting in living in a free world, to stand up and defend freedom. If these fanatics are not confronted and decisively defeated today, we might encounter a bigger problem tomorrow. I also agree with you that it is the not free world that should feel guilty, or take responsibility for these crazy terrorists. If anything, the free world should re-examine their policies of allowing people in their countries without understanding their views or ideology. I believe that all the communists should go to Russia or China, all the Islamofascists should go to Saudi Arabia and all the people believe in freedom should migrate to the free world. Today, if you as a westerner go to a so called ‘Muslim’ country, you have to change your appearance and accept their life style, even though you are there temporarily. So, why don’t ‘Muslims migrating to the west in great numbers adopt to western ideas? If they don't agree with the life style or it bothers them, they must be forced to leave, period. I hope and pray that the free world is going to win this battle, and terrorists using Islam as tool to justify their hateful ideology will be history!

A second Muslim gentleman, who comes from India and now lives in London, wrote to say:

...I am appalled by the these Pakistanis destroying great British society. It is even more disturbing that instead of accepting responsibility of their failure to integrate, they are blaming British society for their backwardness...Finally, please don't get upset by the criticism that will come your way. What you are suggesting is difficult, but the right course of action and there is a lot of support for your ideas in the society. We don't want to be known for terrorism, we are not interested in biting the hand that feeds us and we will do whatever it takes to help English people.