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Extremist ideas from Pakistan would not take root in Britain if the ground there was not fertile. Sadly, it is. Although the British Muslim community, 1.6 million strong, is not the largest in Europe, it plays host, says French terrorism analyst Roland Jacquard, to "arguably the largest number of radicalized young men." Polls bear out that conclusion. In a survey for Britain's Channel 4 this year, no less than 22% of Muslims agreed with the proposition that the subway bombings were justified because of "British support for the war on terror." Those under 24 were twice as likely...
...name Don Stewart-Whyte is an unlikely fit with any racial-profiler's description of your typical Qaeda-inspired terror suspect. Yet, Stewart-Whyte, aka Abdul Waheed, who is believed to be either 19 or 21 and to have converted to Islam within the past year after what some neighbors describe as a troubled adolescence, has been reported by the British media as one of the 24 people arrested in connection with a plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners. Nor was he the only convert among the named suspects. Among those on a list of 19 suspects named...
...made sense and had just clicked with him?. His mother was not best pleased about it but after he converted he seemed a lot calmer and more at peace with himself." Friends of Savant, who works as a taxi driver, also provided the by-now familiar tales of the terror suspect as a young man who loved his football and hanging out with his mates before a religious conversion. According to Reuters he converted to Islam in 1997 or 1998, when he began wearing traditional dress, grew a beard and attended a local mosque...
...their statements with calls for patience and tolerance. "Common solidarity and common cause is, I believe, now our most precious asset," Reid said, "and we should foster it in all sections of our community." The police have put extra officers on the streets to protect Muslim citizens. But anti-terror efforts have left those British Muslim communities feeling victimized and sometimes skeptical over claims by the security services, particularly after a police raid in June saw a Muslim man shot and wounded in his home, only to be later released without charge. The Independent Police Complaints Commission judged the shooting...
...Still, the police may have little choice in their efforts to weed out a growing number of terror suspects who have emerged from within law-abiding British Muslim communities. "These third generation terrorists may receive their motivation and stimulation from Al Qaeda but, on the operative level, they act independently," says Rolf Tophoven, head of the Essen-based Institute for Terrorism Research and Security Policy and Germany's leading expert on international terrorism. "They have been radicalized and turned to a kind of perverted Islam." Since homegrown terrorist groups "have metastasized in many places around the world," he says, "identifying...