I think that what people are struggling with, here and elsewhere, is the 'moderate' rather than the extreme part. The extreme is easy to deal with. Any heinous acts such as rape, murder, child abuse, terrorism are categorised into the extreme box - perpetrated by a bunch of lunatics and savages. This is a protective mechanism, to make us feel safe (conveniently ignoring that most rapes, child abuse incidents, domestic violence murders occur where the people are family, friends and acquaintances). The difficulty at the moment is that once we've categorised the Paris terrorists as extremists, we are still left with quite a large number of people (if you see this in a homogenised way) or community groups who: support or actively practise so-called honour killings, ask for Sharia Law, preach hate against the West and non-believers, Jews, etc. in public spaces, live in 'no-go' to English people communities in northern/south east towns, demonstrate in order to ask for bars and pubs to stop selling alcohol (Tower Hamlets), put those grill contraption things over women's faces (but, strangely enough, not men's- admittedly, I've only seen two women like this in my lifetime), try to segregate women from men at public meetings, etc.. I think that what people want to hear is not ordinary Muslims decry the terrorists (which is a fairly obvious thing to do, if you think about it. How could anyone support it?) but to say, publicly, I don't want Sharia Law here, In England, because we have English Law already (and it's not perfect, but there are constant pressures to reform it), I don't want to segregate women from men because women have the vote and have a say in public life, etc.. The thing is, some of the things that I mention above are also things that ordinary westerners are not too enamoured with, but here, we have pressure groups protesting, demonstrating, writing and calling out against Victoria's Secret shows (the other end of the spectrum, basically, to the burqa), pornography , alcohol abuse, other bad behaviour - homophobic attitudes, for example. There is no vocal Muslim group or groups saying these things. Is that important? Is it enough to believe it privately but not speak out? I don't know. We'd agree on the Victoria's Secret shows (can you tell that I hate them?) but they need to add their voices to the 'No Sharia Law', 'no segregation according to gender', 'yes to homosexuality' parts. These voices are there, and quite rightly so, but they are not very prominent. I think that most people don't care what colour, race or whatever someone is, or how people live their life. We are all too busy for this. If you want to do unspeakable things to each other while wearing a monkey suit, then go ahead, as long as you observe the social conventions around such acts. I work with a large number of Muslims who, privately, agree that they can't speak out about these things. They also agree that only some of these things are an issue, so there's a long way to go in terms of changing opinions (about homosexuality, for example). Some of these things are an issue in westernised cultures too, there's no doubt about that, but there are plenty of pressure groups arguing against them - and it's a great thing.