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So one of the police officers who was shot yesterday was himself a Muslim reportedly. Part of the solution to combating extremism is to not make out that the vast majority of Muslims in the West are anything other than our allies in this conflict. We should stop treating them as different to us, demanding that 'they' do more which by implication links them to their attackers. Yes they share the same faith but that faith is bitterly divided, there is a battle going on within the Muslim world at the moment. I admit this isn't a great analogy but it's sort of akin to have demanded that Catholic communities and leaders do more about, and take responsibility for, the actions of Protestant Ulster loyalists.

People moan about Muslims not doing enough or not integrating, well this Islamic officer who died was out every day risking his safety to protect Paris' streets and has paid with his life for that; is that not enough? Or is not enough that thousands of Muslims are in our police and our armed forces. To take it global its worth remembering that its Muslims who are the biggest death statistic from extremism, and its other Muslims who are taking the biggest risk right now on the front line against ISIS. The minute you start to treat them all the same you lose sight of what Islamic extremism really is and how to combat it. It's not a battle that the West can fight alone.

And like ITILYT said there are organisations that Muslims have set up themselves in the West to combat extremism that get very little coverage. Just as the numerous condemnations that flooded in immediately from across the Muslim world receive very little coverage.