Last week, Britain observed the anniversary of the July 7, 2005 subway and
bus bombings in which four suicide bombers killed 52 people. Much of Britain
remains in at least partial denial about the problem facing them (and facing
us in the United States). According to the Populus survey conducted for the
London Times and ITV News, more than one in 10 British Muslims believe the
bombers should be regarded as "martyrs." Sixteen percent of British Muslims
- about 150,000 adults - believe that while the attacks were wrong, the
cause was right. Seven percent of the 1,131 Muslim adults surveyed believe
such attacks can be justified "in some circumstances." Sixteen percent would
be "indifferent" if a family member joined al-Qaida. Since terrorists are
known to lie, these figures could be much higher. There are an estimated 1.6
million Muslims in Britain. Do the math and see if this is a tolerable
number of extremists, who might be terrorists and are certainly in sympathy
with the killing of "infidels." A similar study should be conducted in the
United States.
If this were a joke, one might ask how many Muslim terrorists it takes to
blow up a tunnel, bus, or subway? The answer is not many and it isn't funny.
Those wishing to understand what's coming even in the midst of "moderate"
talk from politicians and a few Muslim leaders, should regularly visit The
Middle East Media Research Institute's Web site, MEMRI.org, where excerpts
of sermons, statements and writings by a diverse group of radicals are
readily available. In a sermon in Tehran, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati recently
claimed the English government might have caused the London bombings just
like the U.S. government might have caused 9/11. Lebanese "researcher"
Hisham Jaber claims "Global Zionism" was behind the London attacks and 9/11
and "has been forging holy books since the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,"
a virulent anti-Semitic book that was long ago discredited but is widely
believed among Arabs and Muslims. And then there's this little number from
the head of the London Center for Islamic History, Hani Siba'i: "The term
Œcivilians' does not exist in Islamic religious law." Why has the British
government not deported him?
One hears the argument that we must abide by rules so we won't be like them.
Maybe if we were more like them, there would be fewer of them plotting how
to kill more of us.