According to representatives of the Muslim community in Britain, there is one way to end the suicide bombing threat. Surrender. As the Evening Standard reported:

‘Dr Azzam Tamimi, from the Muslim Association of Britain, said the country was in real danger and that this would continue so long as British forces remained in Iraq... 7/7, 21/7, and God knows what will happen afterwards, our lives are in real danger and it would seem, so long as we are in Iraq and so long as we are contributing to injustices around the world, we will continue to be in real danger. Tony Blair has to come out of his state of denial and listen to what the experts have been saying, that our involvement in Iraq is stupid." His comments were echoed by the marketing manager for The Muslim Weekly newspaper.

‘Shahid Butt said he believed the threat to Britain would reduce if it pulled its troops out of Iraq. He said: "At the end of the day, these things [violent incidents] are going to happen if current British foreign policy continues. There's a lot of rage, there's a lot of anger in the Muslim community. We have got to get out of Iraq, it is the crux of the matter. I believe if Tony Blair and George Bush left Iraq and stopped propping up dictatorial regimes in the Muslim world, the threat rate to Britain would come down to nearly zero."

‘Massoud Shadjareh, chair of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, also called on the Government to take responsibility for creating the "political environment" in which these attacks have happened. He said: "Now we know this wasn't a one-off, we need to look at ways of addressing the underlying factors that created it. I feel it's urgent to start addressing these before there is further loss of life."'

I’d say this was a clear threat to Britain from these people, that unless we come out of Iraq there will be more attacks. Bombs on the tubes and buses, threats from community leaders -- Britain is currently under sustained attack by word as well as deed, in a pincer movement designed to break our resolve.

Meanwhile, at least 83 people died in an al Qaeda attack on Egypt when bombs ripped apart three hotels at Sharm el Sheikh, the popular Egyptian tourist resort — thus helping prove, if those who believe Iraq was a cause of the London attacks are paying any attention, that we are dealing with a fascistic agenda which changes its grievance of choice with every country that it targets, precisely to sow confusion and division among gullible populations. The fact is that Islamofascists have declared war on everyone who stands in the way of the revival of the global Islamic Caliphate, and everyone who defends themselves against this holy war of conquest — whether they are in Australia, Indonesia, Chechnya, Israel, Iraq, the US or Britain — is presented therefore as an aggressor and used to recruit still more into this cult of murderous lunacy. The only alternative for those under such attack, however, is surrender. That is why those in Britain who endorse the morally twisted and cynically selective logic of the Iraq connection — such as the wretched BBC — are behaving like traitors to their country in a time of war.

Posted by melanie at July 24, 2005