>[Where oh where can that bombing motive be?]
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>Anger Burns on the Fringe of Britain's Muslims
The point of this article is that British Muslims have a long list of grievances. The invasion of Iraq is a big part of it, but (and this is going out to Carrol Cox) it's not the whole story.
You snipped this part:
>A recent poll commissioned by The Guardian found that 84 percent of
>Muslims surveyed were against the use of violence for political
>means, but only 33 percent of Muslims said they wanted more
>integration into mainstream British culture. Almost half of those
>surveyed said their Muslim leadership did not represent their views.
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>The grievances of the boys of Cross Flats Parks have not propelled
>them toward political action. But Dr. Waheed, a practicing
>psychiatrist, and Mr. Khan, a documentary filmmaker, are acting on
>their alienation.
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>Both men, eloquent, better educated and better off than most in
>their community, are also among the more politically motivated. They
>have embraced one of the more conservative, if not militant, Islamic
>movements in Britain today - Hizb ut-Tahrir, or Party of Liberation.
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>The party's stated goal is to rebuild the Caliphate - the Muslim
>state dissolved with the fall of the Ottoman Empire - to displace
>corrupt dictators in the Muslim world, and to instill Islamic mores
>and Islamicize almost every aspect of daily life.
Doug