Want to get some feathers ruffled? Try starting a conversation with this:

I grew up in that city. I walked its streets, haunted its museums, bedeviled its bookstores, and sort of grew up to see it through the eyes of Charles Dickens through my studies and then my own eyes. Its homes house beloved friends and its cemeteries enclose cherished friends and loved family members.

I must confess that over the years I did not like what I was seeing as far as immigration was concerned. You could hardly find an Anglo-Saxon if you went out hunting for one on the streets of London. I am not a racist, but I am a person who wants to see English men and women when I go to London. I guess London has a bigger racial vision than I do, and I respect that though I do not agree with it.

How closed minded, right? How racist, right?

Well, Dr. Mohammed T. Al-Rasheed would differ with you on that opinion. And while I don’t agree with his conclusion on the subject, his hard words do have some informative power and it certainly provides a sharp contrast to the normal PC thoughts that are seen on immigration and cultural integration.

Islam, in its normative form, will live side by side with other faiths and nationalities. But some Muslims, as is seen today, are not ready for cohabitation. Sure enough, the majority of Muslims, and I am one of them, would say that they can do so, but unless we as Muslims clean our house, the issue is rather academic.

As I said, hard words.

Read the rest. And be prepared to agree, disagree, and probably even feel a little offended.