Today’s Sunday Times of London editorializes on the enemy within:
The great challenge for Britain is how to stop this and minimise the future risks. Nobody should underestimate the scale of the problem or the time needed. We already have a generation of disaffected Muslims who see any excuse, whether it is war in Iraq, Afghanistan or Lebanon, as a reason for killing their fellow citizens. The government has commissioned studies on combatting the problem, so far with little tangible impact. Tony Blair has been wooing Muslim leaders, too often the radicals rather than the moderates, although this policy seems to lie in shreds as they moan about wars in the Middle East inflaming Islamic youth. They are perfectly entitled to be angry about these conflicts, but that anger should be expressed through the democratic processes of demonstrations and elections.
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Backlash: Al-Guardian(!) tells British Muslims to get it together (Correction: The Observer, not the Guardian) (Update: Home Secretary blasts Muslim leaders)
Allahpundit
I was going to make the Times of London’s lead editorial the must-read of the day — until I saw this.
As the shock of the news about the bomb plot recedes, the story over there is rapidly becoming the miserably cynical, selfish way that Muslim special-interest groups have reacted to it. People are getting awfully tired of this good-cop bad-cop crap every time a plot is foiled (or isn’t foiled), where the first instinct of Muslim leaders is to mau-mau the British government about foreign policy by telling them things will get better if they just play ball.
It’s not working anymore, boys. If you’ve lost the socialists, you’ve lost everyone:
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[Do read the whole thing.]
