FUNDAMENTAL FEARS

A reporter for The Times infiltrated The Saviour Sect, successor to the disbanded Al-Muhajiroun. It's business as usual for Islamic fundamentalists in the UK:

The reporter became a member of the sect three weeks before the July 7 bombings. From the start he was taught that it was his duty to destroy the kuffar. Moderate Muslims who did not believe in the overthrow of the British government and its replacement by an Islamic state were held in equal disdain.

Within days of joining, he witnessed seven Saviour Sect members beating up a member of the moderate Young Muslim Organisation in an East End street because they believed he had insulted their version of Islam.

Last week Omar Brooks stirred controversy with televised comments, but they were carefully chosen to avoid appearing to incite violence. On Saturday, July 2 he had been more forthright.

Speaking to a group of teenagers and families, he declared it was imperative for Muslims to “instil terror into the hearts of the kuffar” and added: “I am a terrorist. As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist.”

Very scary stuff but Mary Riddell at The Observer thinks it's the policies of George Bush we should fear:

The fear-driven politics forged when George W Bush invented the axis of evil have backfired horribly. The Iraq war has been disastrous on many fronts. Hatred is on the rise in Britain. And now free speech and rights, the buttresses of democracy, are at risk.

Maybe Riddell should give a bit of thought to those who would remove her right to keep breathing.