True, and even if there were 1500 who had been through AQ camps, it would be too many for my liking.
Three months ago I would have agreed with you that Lord Stevens estimate seemed rather high. But there was a documentary I saw when in the UK last month called Don't Panic I'm Islamic which I initially interpreted as an attempt to reassure the general non-Muslim population that Muslim Britons were not nearly as scary or extremist as some fear. But actually, the opinions expressed by all those Muslims interviewed in the documentary were so extreme, and frankly so departed from reality ("I am 99% certain that 9/11 was orchestrated by George Bush"; "Everyone knows that Osama is innocent" etc etc) that some of this scaremongering no longer seems preposterous.
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Date: 2005-07-13 08:18 pm (UTC)Three months ago I would have agreed with you that Lord Stevens estimate seemed rather high. But there was a documentary I saw when in the UK last month called Don't Panic I'm Islamic which I initially interpreted as an attempt to reassure the general non-Muslim population that Muslim Britons were not nearly as scary or extremist as some fear. But actually, the opinions expressed by all those Muslims interviewed in the documentary were so extreme, and frankly so departed from reality ("I am 99% certain that 9/11 was orchestrated by George Bush"; "Everyone knows that Osama is innocent" etc etc) that some of this scaremongering no longer seems preposterous.