You sound like a Wigan fan.

I should have put Wiganers on that list of exotic cultures, the things that their women do with two knitting needles and a ball of red and a ball of white wool has to be seen to be believed.

Nott forgetting the famous curtain twitching rich culture of the Home Counties.

A brilliant and obvious suggestion in the Independent article - suffocation of extremism by self-engendered ridicule. To say nothing of the opposite effect that would be manifested if Warsi and May had their way - the inevitable propelling of the suppressed evil voice into a state of misguided pre-eminence.

The jihad article is illuminating. While it is undoubted that the vast majority of Muslims are peace-loving, there is an apparent reluctance by Imams to firstly admit that terror crimes [iare[/i being committed in the name of Islam and secondly to denounce armed jihad when such crimes are perpetuated. Jihad undoubtedly has many definitions, but the form that we see manifesting in incidents such as Woolwich, 7/7, Boston etc. is combative and is happening today.

Muslims like Tarek Fatah and Maajid Nawaz who are not afraid to speak the truth should be lauded. Instead, the British authorities tiptoe around the notion that the rotten worm that is militant Islamism does exist and does indeed have it's roots in Sharia law and Islam. Why do they?

Mr Fatah would be the perfect interviewer of Choudary on national telly.

slightly OT but I'm astonished one of the do gooder brigade hasn't started a thread today calling mark bridger a poor lamb, who doesn't really deserve a prison sentence and needs to be rehabilitated back into society as soon as possible...

If you can find a second brain cell, try and rub it together with the first one. You never know – something might even happen.

I accept the "dym" bit of your username may be a typo but I'm struggling with the "an" & "1988"

I hear they have an ancient and skilled flag making tradition.

Such as who?

Shouldn't you be somewhere else, tipping losers, or telling racist jokes?

Talk about idiotic posts. The vast majority on here want people like him punished for what they do and I would imagine few will object to the whole life tariff imposed on Mark Bridger, where there is a difference in general is the two camps of 'yes' and 'no' to the death penalty. I would by astounded if even one subscribed to your theory.

Not normally one to bite, but isn't admission of guilt normally the first step to rehabilitation? On that basis he has no chance.

Astonished are you?
You guessed 100% wrong then didn't you?
Going to come back and apologise are you?

Absolutely.

You give them credibility or kudos by, in effect, giving them the 'honour' of censorship.



Agreed.

Something else that comes into the mix too is our relationship with Saudi Arabia – more pussyfooting, if you will. IIRC, a huge amount of the funding for extremist/fundamentalist forms of Islam (Wahhabism, certainly) is coming out of Saudi – and yet we continue to sell it arms and be 'friends'.