Britain begins reaching out to Muslims

Blears is an idiot. The police have been doing profiling for years and the British Transport Police told her, tersely, they're not going to stop now.

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AP crap, as per usual. It figures this would come out at the same time as the next likely leader of the Tory Party comes out swinging against multiculturalism.

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Thanks, Ivan.

All: Please read Mad Ivan's posts 81 and 82.

FYI -

Muslims who hate us can leave us, British Conservatives say

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Oh I could see that as a problem. Altho frankly, I doubt there are that many real "attacks". We're all too civilized as a whole for that. It hardly happened in America after 9/11, when 3500 people were killed in 1 hour. It won't be "epidemic" in Britain, either. (I recall 1 report of some poor Sikh being real victim of some raving mad people, but hardly any other reports of real attacks at all.)

Gotta like it! Along w/the cannon lining the island....

Have you read, The Smell of Fear?

The part that I liked best:

In this light, the trigger for the London bombings was far less the presence of British troops in Iraq, and far more the media circus that surrounded protestors outside the G-8 summit, as well as the utterances of musical and other celebrities during the "Live 8" performances in support of an end to world hunger, many of whom allowed their declarations to bleed over from understandable economic and political sentiments into dangerously blatant statements of opposition to the Iraq war, the global war on terrorism, and the U.S. generally. As a branch of sociopaths, terrorist leaders possess their own deformed cravings for fame, which makes them particularly susceptible to the false realities projected by celebrities. And if al Qaeda or one of its cohorts indeed mistook the angry but deeply confused language recently bandied about Britain as final proof that that nation's will to fight terrorism had become mortally compromised, then we may well have our answer for why the London attack occurred when it did: The long-sought-after moment when a seemingly retreating Britain could be fully separated from the U.S. had finally arrived. It only required violent exploitation. What the result of that violence will be is by no means certain. Early polls suggest that the majority of the British public has been sharply and tragically reminded of what its true interests and who its true friends are, whatever the momentary shortcomings of this or that government or administration in London or Washington. Is this only a temporary reaction to outrage? Perhaps, but this much is certain: While we in the West, in our efforts to defeat al Qaeda's terrorist network, occasionally elect unwise or even duplicitous leaders and courses of action, there is no lack of wisdom so profound (to paraphrase the often duplicitous FDR) as that produced by fear. As it feeds historical distortion and ignorance, so does fear feed terrorism--indeed, it is terrorism's very DNA. Citizens afraid of future attacks, along with ignorant protestors and careless celebrities, do no good--do, in fact, the work of terrorists for them--when they divide the members of the most important Western alliance by displaying faintheartedness at a time when the West needs above all to maintain its unity. Just now, that unity must be defined as seeing the Iraq endeavor through to some sort of safe conclusion, if only because al Qaeda have themselves made it clear that their fate hangs on their ability to demonstrate their potency, as well as gain a new home, in Iraq.