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Seeing The Real You ...07/13/2005 09:55:25 pm
Mr Blair said security measures alone would not deal with what was more than an isolated criminal act.
"It is an extreme and evil ideology whose roots lie in a perverted and poisonous misinterpretation of the religion of Islam," he said.
Mr Blair met Muslim MPs on Wednesday morning to discuss how to tackle "this evil within the Muslim community".
"In the end, this can only be taken on and defeated by the community itself," he said.Essentially the same as what a "hate site" like Little Green Footballs has been saying almost since September 12th, 2001, along with many other individuals in this country and across the world who have been vilified for it. And it is a simple statement of fact that is beyond the capacity of so many to swallow. Namely, that there is "an evil within the Muslim community." Its true scope has not been scientifically measured, but when peaceful-seeming golden boys who like cricket will happily blow themselves and crowds of innocents to pieces because of it, it's safe to say that it is way beyond what most people have allowed themselves to believe.
Conservative leader Michael Howard said anyone who nurtured resentment against Muslims would be behaving in the way terrorists wanted.
He said: "It will take us a long time to come to terms with the fact that these attacks appear to have been committed by those who were born and brought up in our midst."I don't know how much time you want to take, Mr. Howard, to "come to terms" with it. The truth is that people like you are entrusted with the responsibility of facing these problems before they lead to innocent people being massacred in the subway - and you have been a miserable failure at doing so. Your opportunist political posturing against Blair's steadfastness in the war in Iraq has been revolting, and I really don't know what I'd be doing if I were a conservative in Britain - but I sure wouldn't be voting for you.
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy said everyone shared "a sense of national dismay" on hearing the bombers were British.
Everybody should keep stressing that the vast majority of Muslims totally condemned the bombings, he said.Evidence for that last statement, Mr. Kennedy? The spontaneous Muslim peace marches ever since July 7th, perhaps? According to what we're learning about the bombers, it seems fair to assume that a week or so ago people would have thought that they would have condemned bombings like these. But then they picked up their rucksacks, got on the trains, and committed bloody mass murder. Nobody wants to believe the worst about anyone, but deliberately turning your face away again and again from such glaring facts, while "stressing" over and over again these rosy things that are far from certain, is an abdication of your duty to the people who elected you.
Labour's Shahid Malik, whose Dewsbury constituency was the scene of police raids in the bombing investigation, said the Muslim community faced a "massive wake-up call".
Mr Malik added: "The challenge is straightforward - that those voices that we have tolerated will no longer be tolerated."Amen to that sentiment, but let's hope it's more than just a sentiment.
Bringing this all back home: Dylan once complained that, for all the interpreting of his songs that people do, no one ever thought of playing Ballad Of A Thin Man against something like the violence in the Middle East. Reading and hearing a lot of these reactions to the emerging facts about the London bombers, I'm hearing a helluva lot of Mr. Joneses ...
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