Text hereDo some in the wider British Muslim community "quietly condone" extremism as David Cameron suggests?

The Prime Minister has claimed that a silent minority are guilty of normalising hatred of democracy and western values, such as feminism and the acceptance of homosexuality.

This helps explain, he seems to believe, the path which leads troubled teenagers to choose radicalism and travel to countries like Syria to join jihad.

But Mr Cameron's rehearsed rhetoric urging families to speak out about the poisonous ideology of Islamic State and Al Qaeda takes us precisely nowhere. The vast majority of British Muslim families will and do. Those that do not force us to ask the same difficult questions the rhetoric attempts to avoid.

It has become imperative that we look at why the message from IS resonates with young Muslims internationally.

The questions we need to ask include considering whether the climate in Britain makes young Muslims feel included, with a stake in society, that this is somewhere their religion is accepted and their life offers opportunity.

In considering why some decide to join a caliphate and fight against their own country, it is also worth asking if parts of the political and military establishment in Britain have also some responsibility for normalising hatred for democracy and western values?

Former first minister Alex Salmond believes it is not hard for those who wish to, to construct a narrative that the western world has been responsible for chaos in many Islamic countries.

It might be helpful, he says, to apologise, for instance for the war in Iraq, if we are to devise a meaningful counter-narrative to offer young.

Tens of thousands of Iraqis died as a result of the war western forces launched there. Libya remains in chaos. Years of US drone attacks targeting al Qaeda in Yemen have killed countless civilians and contributed to the appalling situation there. Meanwhile 90% of the weapons being used in the bloody war in Syria were manufactured in the countries of UN Security Council members.

Simply dismissing followers of IS as victims of some sort of cult, and blaming silent supporters in the Muslim community for not doing more is circular and pointless. We need to grapple with what inspires young people such as Talha Asmal, 'Britain's youngest suicide bomber' and the three Dawood sisters from Bradford who took their nine children to Syria. We need to understand what about Britain alienates them. We need to get alternative views and ideologies in front of them.

This is already going on. Organisations such as the Muslim women's campaign Inspire are offering a theological counter narrative to the preachers of jihad - whose creed is essentially political and not religious. The bulk of the victims of IS are Muslim. Imams are wrestling with the role mosques can play in the internet age. For Mr Cameron to suggest that none of this is happening already is wrong and potentially dangerous.

Such issues were barely addressed in the general election campaign. But as well as calling on Muslim communities to play their part we have, somehow to address Britain's own role in this, and deep down, we all know it.