Backlash: Al-Guardian(!) tells British Muslims to get it together

I was going to make the Times of London’s lead editorial the must-read of the day — until I saw this.

As the shock of the news about the bomb plot recedes, the story over there is rapidly becoming the miserably cynical, selfish way that Muslim special-interest groups have reacted to it. People are getting awfully tired of this good-cop bad-cop crap every time a plot is foiled (or isn’t foiled), where the first instinct of Muslim leaders is to mau-mau the British government about foreign policy by telling them things will get better if they just play ball.

It’s not working anymore, boys. If you’ve lost the socialists, you’ve lost everyone:

There is indeed a plausible argument that military action in recent years has made Britain less, not more, secure. In particular, the conduct of the war in Iraq, regardless of the virtues of removing Saddam Hussein from office, has been riddled with error…

But even within the bleakest possible analysis of Mr Blair’s foreign policy, it is still simply not true that the West is waging war on Islam. Just as it is not true that the CIA was really behind the 11 September attacks or any other arrant conspiratorial nonsense that enjoys widespread credence in the Middle East and beyond. It is also a logical and moral absurdity to imply, as some critics of British policy have done, that mass murder is somehow less atrocious when it is motivated by an elaborate narrative of political grievance.
If young British Muslims are alienated, that is sad and their anger should be addressed. But anyone whose alienation leads them to want to kill indiscriminately has crossed a line into psychopathic criminality. Policy cannot be dictated by the need to placate such people.

British Muslim leaders are entitled, along with everybody else, to raise questions about the conduct and consequences of Mr Blair’s foreign policy. But they have a more immediate responsibility to promote the truth: that Britain is not the aggressor in a war against Islam; that no such war exists; that there is no glory in murder dressed as martyrdom and that terrorism is never excused by bogus accounts of historical victimisation.
from the Hot Air Blog

And the argument that war made Britian less safe is bogus: Did more people die after Britian confronted Hitler. More, lots more…so using that argument Britian should not have confronted Hitler because Britian was less safe.

No, Hitler would have eventually turned on Britian even if Britian agreed to Hitler’s peace proposal, as he turned on Stalin. Appeasing agression brings only short term benefits at best, and is in the long term fatal.

This is something the liberals, and many in this country, still have not figured out….

(……and the Muslim Community’s reaction in Britian and in America has really bothered me. I have seen little condemnation over these attacks. They are starting to sound no better then terrorist apologists.)