The war against terror continues: Islam must not be seen as the enemy

[Guardian]

The barbaric murder of Ken Bigley concludes another difficult and gruesome episode in the drawn out tragedy of Iraq and the wider Middle East. No less disturbing, in Egyptian Red Sea holiday resorts, 28 people (mostly Israeli tourists) died in a series of what are believed to be al-Qaeda-inspired attacks. Not only does Middle Eastern savage and brutal terrorism approach new levels of careless inhumanity and disrespect for human life, there is no evident end in sight. Once again, we have to ask fundamental questions about the wisdom of American and Israeli policy and, since Britain is so closely associated with it, whether Mr Blair is right to offer the continued and largely uncritical support of Britain........


.....''Ken Bigley was murdered by depraved terrorists - not depraved Islamic terrorists. The balancing act we must now perform is forensically to fight the war against terror, not against the countries and civilisation in which terrorism operates.''

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