A report based on the findings of the poll, and forwarded to me by a reader of this column, says, "If ignorance and poverty are responsible for the growth of extremist views in the Islamic world, someone needs to ask Muslim students, privileged enough and bright enough to attend some of the United Kingdom's best universities, why one-in-three of them endorses killing in the name of Islam." Among the poll's findings of Muslim beliefs are some revealing facts:

40 per cent want shari'ah in Britain for Muslims;
33 per cent favour a worldwide Islamic caliphate;
24 per cent think men and women are not equal;
32 per cent believe killing in the name of religion is justified;
33 per cent don't think Islam is compatible with democracy.

The reason for this digression is not to provide an insight into the warped mindset of those who believe 'Islam is the solution' -- much as Adolf Hitler thought he had found the 'final solution' to rid the world of Jews and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thinks god has willed him to complete Hitler's unfinished task -- but to highlight the danger posed by those who see nothing wrong with the fringe increasingly occupying the centre. The lib-left intelligentsia, whose criminal disregard of facts and aggressive peddling of fiction often persuades ill-informed and ill-intentioned journalists to suppress the truth, wants society to be tolerant of Islamofascism; to indulge the Muslim cult of denial; and, to gloss over incidents like serial bombings and suicide attacks. Those who refuse to do so are accused of Islamophobia.

Meanwhile, I wonder if the Prime Minister spent a sleepless night on Friday after reading about 12-year-old Rohan's death in the morning newspapers. Rohan had suffered 70 per cent burns in last Saturday's bombing of Ahmedabad's Civil Hospital, in which his father and the family's sole bread-earner, Dushyant Vyas, was killed. Rohan's younger brother, nine-year-old Yash, has suffered 50 per cent burns and is battling for his life. Rohan's mother, Geetaben, is inconsolabl