Acknowledgement of fault can certainly go too far. Present-day Europe, for example, is characterised by a pathological excess of it. But, at least in moderation, the recognition of past errors brings with it the possibility of moral growth, the opportunity to become better than we are. This attitude, however, is alien to the Muslim mindset, even that of the supposedly moderate Muslims paraded in front of us as paragons of modernity.

What's bizarre is that this refusal to accept blame or acknowledge fault, this rejection of the possibility of moral growth, is praised to the high heavens by non-Muslims.

Here, for example, the pitiful Fraser Nelson in the Spectator (a supposedly conservative publication) collects various tweets from "moderate" Muslims distancing themselves - but not just themselves, distancing Islam - from the jihad attack yesterday.