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"Not a majority, admittedly, but a very substantial minority – and, as always, it is the noisy, activist minority that is likely to prevail over a docile majority."

Without a shred of evidence Peter asserts that radicals and extremists form a (vaguely) substantial part of the faithful but what is more telling is his belief that the rest form a "docile majority" who are likely to submit to extremists because they are "noisy and “activist". According to this reasoning we should expect to be governed by Hanson, Latham and Anning after the next election because they're radical and noisy and we're so impressed by their behaviour that we just can't help but meekly fall into line behind them.

Obviously Peter doesn't think that will happen because we're made of much sterner stuff than all those many millions of weakly gullible Muslims. That incredible weakness will come as a surprise to the Kurdish fighters who fought so hard and brilliantly to defeat their Islamic State betters. Why didn't they understand that they should have submitted to those noisy activists who also understood Islam much better than they did?

Dear oh dear, what is the world coming to when Muslims don't submit to Peter's bigoted preconceptions about them?