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July 4, 2006

UK: Seven Percent Of Muslims Approve Of Bombing UK Civilians

A study conducted by Populus for the Times and the Independent Television service, ITV.com has found some disturbing results. The poll was conducted with a sample group of 1,131 British Muslims, aged over 18 years. The respondents to the poll were contacted between June 1 and June 16.

56% thought the Government was not doing enough to fight Islamic extremism.
13% felt that the suicide bombers who killed 52 people on 7 July 2005 should be viewed as "martyrs".
16% thought the 7/7 attacks were wrong but happened for right reasons
7% thought that, in some circumstances, it was justifiable to have suicide attacks against British civilians
16% said that if a family member joined Al Qaeda they would be "indifferent"

There were some positive signs.

49% thought the intelligence services had a right to infiltrate Muslim associations to gather information .
65% felt their community needed to integrate more into British society
35% thought that if a close family member joined the police, they would be proud.

49% thought that another suicide bombing was likely. In studies of the wider population, 78% feel this will happen.
79% think their community has received more hostility since the bombings last July
74% feel that Muslims are viewed with suspicion
49% thought it offensive that non-Muslims feel anxious if they see a Muslim with a backpack on public transport.
18% thought they themselves would feel anxious if they saw this.

92% thought that the Muslim community has made a positive contribution to UK society.

The Times notes that Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, states: "These results show that there are people within the Muslim communities who are so far away from the mainstream of society, as well as the mainstream of British Muslims, that they think that they are at war with the rest of the community. Thankfully, we know that a vast majority of Muslims are not in that place."

We reported the views of Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Tariq Ghaffur. He said: "The poll shows that we do have a minority of people within our community who do effectively pose a danger. The tipping point between someone feeling anger and alienation and then engaging in the kind of atrocities we saw last July or being exploited by somebody who wants to commit a terrible act is very, very small."

Today in the Houses of Parliament, states ITV News, Prime MInister Tony Blair said that the Muslim community itself should do more to combat extremism within the Islamic population.

He said: "he Government has its role to play in this, but, honestly, the Government itself is not going to defeat this." He noted that there were views amongst some in the Muslim community of "a completely false sense of grievance against the West."

He continued: "I think the roots of this extremism lie in the attitudes and ideas as much as organisation. I don't think there is an answer to this terrorism that is simply about police work or security measures."

He ruled out wasting human resources on holding a public inquiry into 7/7, saying intelligence personnel needed to be focusing on current threats.

Speaking on the potential threat from an extremist attack, Blair stated: "There is no doubt there are people, there are groups that we believe are engaged in planning this kind of activity....I believe at the moment we have a clear, active threat. I want our police and our security services focused on dealing with that threat."

"My worry - and why I think it would not be responsible to do it - is that you end up diverting this vast amount of energy and resource into something that, I'm afraid in the end, is going to tell you what we already know, which is that these four individuals went and committed this act."

There have been rumours in the media that information was available to security services on the 7/7 attackers, which was not acted upon.

Blair spoke on this subject. "Each and every one of these stories is wrong and false. There was no CIA block on Mohamed Sidique Khan going into America, there was no device planted in his car before 7/7, there was no information given to the police before 7/7 about what they were up to. Each of these stories is just simply wrong."

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at July 4, 2006 7:07 PM

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