The key to rubbing along in perfect harmony | Libby Purves ... Times Online - Nov 9, 2009
Authoritarianism is a sin of religiosity: believers need to heed the Jewish experience about respecting the secular majority...
But some Muslims... have yet to learn the knack of the minor key... Islamist extremists now - impotent and prickly, beached in secular Luton or Bradford or Boston - may feel it shameful to be a "tolerated" minority. Hence the murderous vainglory of suicide videos, and before that the crazy rantings we ignored for far too long from Abu Hamza al-Masri on his Al-Jihaad site (
"[Unbelievers] are filthy scum of the earth . . . beneath the level of the cattle. We must crush them without mercy . . . So now it is time to make your decision . . ." ).
[http://thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/libbypurves]
http://38south.com/docs/Times-Purves.pdfhttp://www.google.com/search?q=%22%5BUnbelievers%5D+are+filthy+scum+of+the+earth%22&tbs=nws:1,ar:1&source=newspapers Hamza 'urged followers to murder'
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 19:33 GMT
Mr Abu Hamza is accused of having a document "useful" to a terrorist Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri told his followers it was their "religious duty to kill" non-Muslims, jurors heard as his trial began at the Old Bailey.
Prosecutors said a "terrorism manual" was found at his London home in 2004.
It explained how to make explosives, organise a terrorist unit and suggested potential targets such as Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower, it was claimed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4602054.stm