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British Muslim Groups: British Foreign Policy Causes Terrorism

Calm down. They didn't say it out loud this week - their confidence hasn't quite reached that level, despite a half-decade of Brits stumbling over each other to absolve contemporary Islam of any connection to violence. Instead, organizations like the Muslim Public Affairs Committee seem content to let British officials make that connection and then to merely pass it along as news:

The Foreign Office's top official warned Downing Street that the Iraq war was fuelling Muslim extremism in Britain a year before the 7 July bombings,.. Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Mark Oaten last night called on the government to come clean about the link between extremism among British Muslims and anger about Iraq: 'For the government to deny a link between the war in Iraq and dismay among the Muslim community is ridiculous.'

And lest you think this "foreign policy equal terrorism against British civilians" meme is limited retrospectively to 7/7, here's a little of what British Muslim groups have been thinking for at least the last year - e.g. a 2006 letter written to Tony Blair:

It is our view that current British government policy risks putting civilians at increased risk both in the UK and abroad. To combat terror the government has focused extensively on domestic legislation. While some of this will have an impact, the government must not ignore the role of its foreign policy. The debacle of Iraq and now the failure to do more to secure an immediate end to the attacks on civilians in the Middle East not only increases the risk to ordinary people in that region, it is also ammunition to extremists who threaten us all.

Of course they go on to say that terrorism is never justified - it's just that this British foreign policy so inflames those otherwise nice British Muslim boys who go to mosques to hear about how millennia of Western crimes justify revenge in this day and age.

References:
* Foreign Office's top official: Iraq war fuelling Muslim extremism [MP
* Full text: Muslim groups' letter [BBC]

Previously:
* We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - Sharia Courts Established In Britain
* Global Jihadists Will Take Any Excuse To Kill Infidels
* We're Going To Miss Westminster Abbey - One In Ten "Asians" Support Honor Killings In Britain, "Political Correctness" Prevents Police From Stopping Them [Audio]

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