Mohamed Elgjini (Helsinki, Finland), 11 January 2006

Well, who likes violence! And what is new if through history minorities are used as a scapegoat for bad policies followed by some! Do Muslims communities have the choice? I do not think they have alternatives except to denounce violence and distance themselves from the "bad Muslims".

But what causes violence? No editorial is keen to tackle it or at least have the audacity to portrait it clearly.

Islam is peace, therefore the problem lies somewhere else rather than within ritual practices that one may say are out of touch with what is considered as modern. A real answer to this problematic issue needs a host of approaches rather than a simplistic "with us or against us".

Mohamed Elgjini