The malaise of Britain's Muslims

Columnist Polly Toynbee backs the 36 British Muslim groups which on Friday August 11 signed an open letter printed in different newspapers, calling on the prime minister to rethink his foreign policy. "British foreign policy has helped foment murderous extremism among British Muslims. The London bombings a year ago might not have happened had Labour taken the French stand [over Iraq] ... Every minister hotly denying this obvious truth sounds absurd - but makes the wrong point altogether. The point is that a democratically elected government's foreign policy can't be moulded by threats from murdering religious maniacs. There are 1,001 good reasons why we should never have supported, let alone joined, the war in Iraq. But the one truly bad reason would have been fear of terrorism."

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