Re: national health care-breeding ground for terrorism
On Jul 6, 2007, at 8:34 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
The end of habeas corpus has come not through anticommunism but Islamophobia, which most liberals and leftists of the West are unable to counter because their estimation of Muslims is not all that different from the general public’s and at the bottom of their hearts they fear Islamism more than imperialism.
http://www.gallupworldpoll.com/content/?CI=28051
Britons Unthreatened By Those With Different Religious Beliefs Two-thirds agree that people from minority groups enrich their culture
by Patricia Guadalupe GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
PRINCETON, NJ — Britain’s new Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced his
first real test over the past week with the attempted bombings in
London and Glasgow that are believed to be tied to al Qaeda. Police
have made eight arrests and expect to make more. The bombings come on
the heels of the recent sentencing in London of several Muslim men in
connection with a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange. Brown has
called terrorism “a serious and continuous threat,” and is proposing
to extend the period for which suspected terrorists may be detained
for questioning without being charged.
But although many of those involved in alleged terrorism plots in the
United Kingdom are Muslim extremists, UK officials have taken pains
to distinguish them from the country’s large Muslim population.
London mayor Ken Livingstone said Britons should not “demonize” the
country’s Muslim population, saying they have played a “good and
active role in creating a multicultural society.” According to a
Gallup poll conducted in late 2006 and early 2007, most UK residents
agree: 75% said they didn’t think people with different religious
practices threatened their own way of life. Just over two-thirds of
Britons, 68%, said people from minority groups enrich the cultural
life of their country. Among Londoners only, the number in agreement
was 78%.
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