Posted on 01/19/2007 8:06:02 AM PST by jdm
LONDON, England (CNN) -- When we reported the unprecedented suicide bombings of the London underground trains and buses in 2005, we were shocked beyond words that young British Muslims, born and bred here, would go to that extreme.
We could not understand what would drive them to kill themselves and their fellow citizens.
And so we started to investigate what we call "The War Within."
What struck us most was how deeply the Iraq war has radicalized today's generation of young Muslims in Britain. Whether extreme or mainstream, they are angry about the war, angry that their country so devotedly follows U.S. foreign policy, angry at what they see as a worldwide war against Muslims and Islam.
A man who runs a youth center in a London neighborhood with a large Muslim population said the message of extremism preys on many kids who see no way out of their ethnic ghettos. Those youth, he said, have always had vices -- street crime, drugs, car thefts.
"But then now you've got another threat," Hanif Qadir told me.
"The new threat is radicalism. It's a cause. Every young man wants a cause."
We knew much of the Islamic world feels like this, but we were surprised at the extent of these feelings in Britain.
The UK was rocked by the attacks of July 7, 2005 and the attempted attacks that failed two weeks later. Since then, Britons have many questions about the role of the Muslim community here.
In our investigation, we found shocking evidence of the bigotry, intolerance and hatred preached by some Muslim fundamentalists in the UK. We met men like Anjem Choudary of the now-banned Al-Mahajiroon extremist group, who denounces democracy and predicts Britain will be ruled by Sharia, Islamic law.
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It's The Enemy Within, you twit.
Its America's fault.
Oh puke. I think I'll skip the rest. The part of the world that thinks that America is the source of all of its ills is in for a rude awakening, I think.
Its called Religion you idiot....
What struck us most was how deeply the Iraq war has radicalized today's generation of young Muslims in Britain
yes, it must have been that iraq and afghanistan invasion thing before 9/11 that set the hijackers off..does this numbnu*s NOT understand that they were AT WAR with us BEFORE the iraq invasion??
It's the religion,stupid!
Or, the stupid religion as some would say.
If they are right, they are in paradise with Allah.- tom
by the way, these "reporters" NEED to read FR once in a while to get the heads-up on news..seems we here knew this LONG ago and they're just discovering it..
Terrorism in Britain
I'll say it first >>> It's Bush's fault!
Article has only one author yet she uses the "royal we" term. Obnoxious and condescending.
It's called supremacist theocratic rule. It goes beyond religion into political/legal rule.
The Islamonazi movement CELEBRATES the 9-11 attacks in England every year and she is surprised to see that some young men would ACT on that hate?
Well I am glad to see that Amapour is still on her usual rant.
For a minute from the headline I was worried she might have stumbled into obejectivity (sacasm intended). But no. Her theme is it is still Bush' fault and any killing done in the UK is to be excused because the anger is justified. If Blair hadn't followed Bush then no one would be angry.
Amapour and Jimmy Carter should form their own think tank.
Remember Christiane, Bush is your fault!
Hey bimbo, what you and the person standing behind you as you wrote it seem to not realize, is that the radicalism existed before Iraq and before 9/11. Or maybe you do realize it and are just attempting to slander America. So you're either a clueless bimbo or a traitor.
"Shocked beyond words", eh? Well, Christiane, YOU and your democommielibnut friends may have been, but WE out here in the real world weren't.
Come on Christiane - let's take a look at 7/7 and the disaffected "youth". How about 7/7/2001 for starters:
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Eighty police hurt in Bradford riots
Further race clashes in Bradford
Quieter night for Oldham police
Calm restored after race riots
Fresh race attacks in England
Further race riots in England
Tories accused of sparking race riots
UK: Second night of race violence
Jul 8, 2001
Police faced petrol bombs and burning cars rammed into their ranks as they battled Asian and white youths in the northern English city of Bradford on Sunday in a fresh outbreak of racial rioting in the region.
Police said at least two men were stabbed, 80 police officers were injured and 18 people were arrested in running street battles blamed on outsiders by local community leaders.
Police said lives were at risk as hundreds of officers battled around 1,000 youths of Bangladeshi and Pakistani origin who threw petrol bombs and missiles and stabbed a police horse during the violence that began on Saturday......snip
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_world_story_skin/46589
When people are openly angry about freedom, democracy, human rights, etc etc then I get very angry. In fact, Saddam's angers towards these exact things were a major issue with me.
So if some sob gets all reved up because Saddam and boys are offed and a human rights based government is attempted, why am I supposed to care again?
I'm sure it didn't go down too well with the rank and file Nazi's when Musolini and then Hitler got strung up. What's the point of this story again?
Or, as some would say, a stupid cult ;-)
This is the only true statement in the entire article. They can not and will never be able to understand it.
Horse hockey! Those cells were established, and the radical Mullahs spouting their nonsense, before we went into Iraq. If we weren't there, they'd STILL be spouting carp about the US and Israel.
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