I'm white and an ex catholic.

Long-time lurker here. I always thought you were an exmuslim.

Anyway, I think you might be putting too fine a point on it e.g. "they say they are disabled yet lots manage to get to the Middle East and fight with ISIS with no obvious affliction." Dude, what are you talking about? I don't think there’s anything wrong with talking about Muslims in a general way, but let's not pretend this somehow representative of how all Muslims, or even a majority, behave.

There are Muslims who are moderates, not Muslims who think they are Moderates. I say this for two reasons. To imply there are no moderate Muslims, is the same thing as saying they all have extremist tendencies. Which isn’t true. But also it is extremely disrespectful, unnecessarily, to all those Muslims who aren’t.

I know this because within my own family there are Muslims who are extremely moderate, near-apostate, extremely conservative and others who are terrorist sympathisers with blind faith and not much else.

I think that the major issue in the "Islamic world" and also very much in Muslim communities in the west - Is that there is a massive sense of Victimhood. And this sense of victimhood colours their understanding of everything that happens around them even so far as international politics. But at the same time, there is just as powerful a sense of what I can only describe as Muslim Supremacy. It's a strange amalgamation which causes a lot of issues in terms of how a lot of Muslims around the world relate to non-Muslims and the wider world. I know you disagree, but I’m not yet convinced that the extremist, inward looking, cut off from society type Muslims have won out. That’s my two sense.