True, and even if there were 1500 who had been through AQ camps, it would be too many for my liking.
Absolutely. 100 would be at least 99 too many.
the opinions expressed by all those Muslims interviewed in the documentary were so extreme
You can find people to say anything if that's what you want for a documentary. I bet I could easily find a dozen, apparently respectable, middle class Brits, in the leafier suburbs who have never actually met a Muslim but "know" that they are all extremists planning to bomb whatever.
Look at the average Tory party conference!
What I would really like to know is how widespread pro AQ views are and by what vectors they are being spread. Unfortunately, having seen at first hand the utter political ineptitude of the so-called "intelligence" services when it comes to differentiating between different strands of dissent, I doubt that will happen. I mean if they can't tell the difference between the CPGB M-L and the Militant Tendency, how the heck can you expect them to unravel the complexities of the different strands of militant Islam?
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Date: 2005-07-13 08:34 pm (UTC)Absolutely. 100 would be at least 99 too many.
the opinions expressed by all those Muslims interviewed in the documentary were so extreme
You can find people to say anything if that's what you want for a documentary. I bet I could easily find a dozen, apparently respectable, middle class Brits, in the leafier suburbs who have never actually met a Muslim but "know" that they are all extremists planning to bomb whatever.
Look at the average Tory party conference!
What I would really like to know is how widespread pro AQ views are and by what vectors they are being spread. Unfortunately, having seen at first hand the utter political ineptitude of the so-called "intelligence" services when it comes to differentiating between different strands of dissent, I doubt that will happen. I mean if they can't tell the difference between the CPGB M-L and the Militant Tendency, how the heck can you expect them to unravel the complexities of the different strands of militant Islam?