A foolish young British Moslem babbles.

From Best of the Web Today:

'Sassy' Suicide Bombers

Yesterday's London Guardian carried a rather troubling piece by Dilpazier Aslam, a "Guardian trainee journalist" who is Muslim. It amounts to an apology for terrorism:
If I'm asked about 7/7, I--a Yorkshire lad, born and bred--will respond first by giving an out-clause to being labelled a terrorist lover. I think what happened in London was a sad day and not the way to express your political anger.
Then there's the "but." If, as police announced yesterday, four men (at least three from Yorkshire) blew themselves up in the name of Islam, then please let us do ourselves a favour and not act shocked. . . .
Shocked would also be to suggest that the bombings happened through no responsibility of our own. OK, the streets of London were filled with anti-war marchers, so why punish the average Londoner? But the argument that this was an essentially US-led war does not pass muster. In the Muslim world, the pond that divides Britain and America is a shallow one. . . .
The Muslim community is no monolithic whole. Yet there are some common features. Second- and third-generation Muslims are without the don't-rock-the-boat attitude that restricted our forefathers. We're much sassier with our opinions, not caring if the boat rocks or not.
These are very unwise things to say. If Britain suffers more Islamist terror, articles like Aslam's are more likely to persuade Englishmen to curtail the civil liberties of their Muslim neighbors than to offer them sympathy.

Exactly. As I said...