In 2004, Lord Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, launched a trenchant attack on Islamic culture, saying it was authoritarian, inflexible and under-achieving. In that speech, he denounced moderate Muslims for failing unequivocally to condemn the "evil" of suicide bombers, and he attacked the "glaring absence" of democracy in Muslim countries, suggesting that they had contributed little of major significance to world culture for centuries, and was quite critical of the Islamic faith in general (he probably should have gone ahead and really told us how he felt!). Unfortunately for Islam, most people living in Western civilization most likely agrees with Lord Carey, and looks to both the past and the present - seeing nothing less than Islam being associated with a culture of violence and a third-world mentality. And within that context, up pops the riots in Australia.

So, when groups of young Muslim men stalk the beaches of Sydney making sexually threatening comments against women in bathing costumes, as they indisputably do; and when they believe they act with the license of a sheik who claims that such women are responsible for their own sexual violation, isn't their religion, at least in part, to blame?

That post was actually written by Debbie, not myself. Nonetheless, thank you for the link.