No, but its more predominant that people are accepting here.
Lets go back to the case of the (non-Muslim) boys who took a copy of the Koran to school and it got dropped to the floor.
The autistic boy who got the 'blame' was subject to death threats and was utterly terrified, unable to eat, terribly, terribly affect on his mental health.
His mother went to a meeting about this at the local mosque with the muslim community. A police officer was there. Did the local Imam/ muslim community leaders tell her they condemned the death threats? Did they offer her their sympathies at this difficult time? Did they reassure her they would co-operate fully with the police in any way they could to bring the people threatening her son to justice? Did they say they would be making clear statements to their community about how unacceptable the treatment of her son was?
No they didn't. She, the representative of a schoolchild victim of a crime ( threats of death and harassment) was crying and apologising and pleading with them to save her son. Like she was in a sharia court. In the UK. Clearly, in the minds of the muslim community at that meeting, they were the victims, not her son.
This was expressed clearly by the representative of the muslim community on Anti-social on radio 4 who laughed away the death threats but was clear on how awful and distressing it is for muslims when the Koran is disrespected and touches the floor. Clearly, to her, her religious values tell her that disrespecting the Koran is worse that death threats to a traumatised school child.
That programme really made me realise that the difference in values is not between Britons ( whether muslim or not) and a few extremist, but a difference in values between muslims and non-muslims which is much more widely spread than I realised.
Now I know that there are muslims who will condemn the treatment of that boy, I have read the writings of muslim women saying that the Prophet could deal with insults in his day and that muslims should be able to deal with them in this day.
But that case really showed that its really quite widespread and mainstream that muslims expect non-muslims to show the same respect for the artefacts of their religion as they do. And that is not acceptable in a liberal society. All of us have to be able to cope with our beliefs being criticised or mocked. None of us are above challenge. That's what living in pluralistic and tolerant society means. Its not always easy, but the alternative is untenable. The alternative, in this case, was an effective sharia court in the UK where one religion felt emboldened and entitled to assert their religious beliefs over and above the child victim of death threats and harassment. And that's not just unacceptable, its genuinely shocking. The Ex-muslims who have fled repressive regimes or repression in their religion I have heard speak on this case, are absolutely horrified to see the oppression they have fled, coming to Britain through this case.
And lets not forget, as I said above, the teacher who is STILL, years later, in hiding for his life, his utterly ruined, after he received death threats for talking about the Charlie hebdo murderers in a lesson on free speech. And he was hung out to dry by our cowardly Education authorities (who had sanctioned the lesson) and our cowardly politicians.
We should be worried when our leaders are too scared to stand up to would-be thugs and murderers who are trying to intimidate non-adherents into religious obedience to aspects of their faith. . We should be.