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If You're a Muslim – It's Your Problem
The News of the World ^ | August 13, 2006 | Lord John Stevens

Posted on 08/12/2006 8:14:47 PM PDT by quidnunc

When will the Muslims of Britain stand up to be counted?

When will they declare, loud and clear, with no qualifications or quibbles about Britain's foreign policy, that Islamic terrorism is wrong?

Most of all, when will the Muslim community in this country accept an absolute, undeniable, total truth: that Islamic terrorism is their problem? they own it. And it is their duty to face it and eradicate it.

To stop the denial, endless fudging and constant wailing that somehow it is everyone else's problem and, if Islamic terrorism exists at all, they are somehow the main victims.

Because until that happens the problem will never be resolved. And there will be more 7/7s and, sometime in the future, another airplane plot will succeed with horrific loss of innocent life.

Equally important, those British politicians who have seemed obsessed with pandering to, and even encouraging, this state of denial, must throw off their politically-correct blinkers and recognise the same truth — that Muslim terrorism in Britain is the direct responsibility of British Muslims.

If only they would follow the lead of Home Secretary John Reid, whose tough, pragmatic, clear-sighted approach has been a breath of fresh air. Only then can they properly work out how to tackle it.

For instance, every airport in Britain is in chaos over the plane bomb-plot alert as every passenger is subjected to rigorous security checks. Why? They take lots of time, lots of staff, and are extremely expensive.

I'm a white 62-year-old 6ft 4ins suit-wearing ex-cop — I fly often, but do I really fit the profile of suicide bomber? Does the young mum with three tots? The gay couple, the rugby team, the middle-aged businessman?

No. But they are all getting exactly the same amount and devouring huge resources for no logical reason whatsoever. Yet the truth is Islamic terrorism in the West has been universally carried out by young Muslim men, usually of ethnic appearance, almost always travelling alone or in very small groups. A tiny percentage, I bet, of those delayed today have such characteristics.

This targeting of airport resources is called passenger profiling — the Israelis invented it and they've got probably the safest airports and airlines in the world.

In all my years at the front line of fighting terrorism, one truth was always clear — communities beat terrorists, not governments or security forces. But communities can't beat terrorism unless they have the will to do so. My heart sank this week as I saw and read the knee-jerk reaction of friends and neighbours of those arrested in this latest incident, insisting it was all a mistake and the anti-terrorist squad had the wrong people.

I have no idea whether those arrested are guilty or not. But neither have those friends and neighbours. They spoke as if it was inconceivable such a thing could happen in their community; that those arrested were all good Muslims; that Islam is a religion of peace so no Muslim could dream of planning such an act.

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TOPICS: Editorial; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: crushislam; eurabia; islamicfascists; islamicnazis; islamisadeathcult; islamisevil; jihadineurope; londonairlineplot; muslim; muslims; trop; ukmuslims; whywefight; wot
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1 posted on 08/12/2006 8:14:48 PM PDT by quidnunc
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To: quidnunc
Be on the lookout for this guy!


2 posted on 08/12/2006 8:17:45 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: quidnunc

The koran is a blueprint for worldwide conquest and inslavement.

Thats why they won't denounce it.


3 posted on 08/12/2006 8:18:44 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: operation clinton cleanup

BOLO for Mohamhead. Got it.


4 posted on 08/12/2006 8:18:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: quidnunc

THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING...!


5 posted on 08/12/2006 8:21:14 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: cripplecreek
This guy seems to fit the description.


6 posted on 08/12/2006 8:22:12 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: quidnunc
That about sums it up.

There was a very good editorial yesterday in the Express outlining the way forward, but I could not find it on line.

Also these quotes showing a bit of resolve from the government (I don't want to over-egg it)

"No government worth its salt should allow its foreign policy to be dictated to under the threat of terrorism," Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander told BBC Radio.

Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett was equally forthright, saying people who blamed the country's foreign policy for the terrorism threat were making "the gravest possible error."

"This is part of a distorted view of the world, a distorted view of life. Let's put the blame where it belongs: with people who wantonly want to take innocent lives," she said.


http://uk.news.yahoo.com/12082006/325/foreign-policy-link-attack-threat-rejected.html
7 posted on 08/12/2006 8:22:35 PM PDT by vimto (Blighty Awaken!)
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To: quidnunc

So, how long will this guy be able to walk around freely in the UK before he is murdered by an "offended" Muslim?


8 posted on 08/12/2006 8:25:03 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: quidnunc
Their grand display of feigning utter shock will backfire:

Subconsiously, people are really taking note that "normal" muslims are sticking up for the kooks. As a reaction, people are conceptually lumping them ALL TOGETHER.

A couple more of these kinds of incidents, and muslims of every stripe will be utter pariahs EVERYWHERE THEY GO.

9 posted on 08/12/2006 8:25:17 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: quidnunc

"They spoke as if it was inconceivable such a thing could happen in their community; that those arrested were all good Muslims; that Islam is a religion of peace so no Muslim could dream of planning such an act."
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If I here "religion of peace" one more time I'm going to hurl. It's clear they are a murderous death cult.


10 posted on 08/12/2006 8:25:36 PM PDT by wmfights (Lead, Follow, or Get Out Of The WAY!)
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To: quidnunc

More voices in the western press like this need to be heard.


11 posted on 08/12/2006 8:26:35 PM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: gaijin
A couple more of these kinds of incidents, and muslims of every stripe will be utter pariahs EVERYWHERE THEY GO.

Yes, I really don't think they realize the seriousness of what they are doing. They keep saying we don't understand their culture, well, they really don't understand OUR culture either and the bad part for them is they are living in OUR culture.......for now.

12 posted on 08/12/2006 8:32:20 PM PDT by McGavin999 (God watch over the young lions of Israel as they fight Hell's Bullies)
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To: quidnunc

Everyone seems to be getting the message now and that it a good thing.


13 posted on 08/12/2006 8:32:52 PM PDT by davisfh
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

Find me a muslim who thinks highly of us infidels and Jews. Peace loving good muslims are taught the same hate that the islamofascists are. The latter acts on it and the former sympathizes with it.


14 posted on 08/12/2006 8:33:07 PM PDT by umgud (Gov't needs a Department of Common Sense)
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To: quidnunc

Desperate times...desperate measures. Either the Muslims who wish to continue living in the civilized Western world denounce terrorism and the tenants of their religion that promote it, purge their mosques of terrorism-inciting teachings, and expose and turn over to authorities those within their ranks who are planning or promoting terrorist acts or the rest of us will have to take the logical next step and put all of them into places that will make everyone safer.

15 posted on 08/12/2006 8:33:24 PM PDT by Spiff (Death before Dhimmitude)
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To: quidnunc
Maybe if we were nice to the slimes and made them a BLT every day they would change their ways!

/sarcasm

16 posted on 08/12/2006 8:34:14 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (I'd rather be carrying a shotgun with Dick, than riding shotgun with a Kennedyl! *-0(:~{>)
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; Grampa Dave; Interesting Times; quidnunc

MUSLIMS    CAN    BE

IN  IT  OR  UNDER  IT






TIME  GROWS  SHORTER

17 posted on 08/12/2006 8:35:03 PM PDT by devolve (fx 9125_AMERICANS_KILLED_2003_BY_ILLEGALS MEX_ILLEGAL_GOT_911_TERRORISTS_ID NO_NUEVO_TEJAS)
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To: quidnunc
When will they declare, loud and clear, with no qualifications or quibbles about Britain's foreign policy, that Islamic terrorism is wrong?

Umm.. That'd be nice, if you're into deception and delusion, but I'd much rather have Muslims declare their actual position instead..

18 posted on 08/12/2006 8:36:50 PM PDT by AntiGuv ("..I do things for political expediency.." - Sen. John McCain on FOX News)
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To: quidnunc
Politicians must accept this truth, and do something about it. One example would be to tackle this chaos at our airports and the passenger profiling I described earlier. Another must is to reconsider ID cards. The importance of knowing whether someone really is who they say they are has never been higher. This must be combined with improved border controls, logging exactly who goes OUT of the country as well as who comes in should also be reconsidered, whatever the politically correct among us may say.

Lord Stevens for head of U.S. DHS!!

19 posted on 08/12/2006 8:39:31 PM PDT by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: quidnunc

Now would be a good time to start releasing false information about anti-terror informants within the Muslim community.

Of course, measures would have to be taken to protect any real informants within the Muslim ranks.


20 posted on 08/12/2006 8:39:42 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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