Trevino at Red State has this horrifying sample from the raw feed of a reporter's interview with some British Muslims. They can barely hide their pleasure at the idea of British commuters being blown to pieces on the way to work.
"Basest perfidy.
By: trevino · Section: War
An RS contact has given us access to some raw footage from a major media organization which shows one of its reporters trying to interview local Muslims in Leeds, England, following the arrest of some suspected Islamists there. It speaks for itself:
Guy on bicycle (pointing to a car): The driver in that car knows all of them.
[People in car say they'll talk for money; the reporter says he's not paying them, then asks questions anyway:]
Reporter (to people in car): How do you feel about what happened?
Passenger (through smirks and half-concealed laughter): No comment. Haha. (tries to compose himself, but fails) No. We're very traumatized. Very traumatized.
Reporter: You don't seem traumatized.
Passenger: (tries again to compose himself; fails) We are. (looks away, concealing a grin). We really are.
Reporter: If you tell me what you really think....
Passenger: No comment. (car drives away)
No cause for worry, though, Sir Iqbal Sacranie is appalled. Or something.
You tell me whether this makes the news tonight.
Update [2005-7-12 18:0:47 by trevino]:
This is significant because it's fairly clear by now that the bombers were all British Muslims. If, as is hypothesized, al Qaeda is transforming itself into a sort of global insurgency based in local Muslim communities (obviating the need, as with 9/11, to import terrorists from abroad), then the question of what to do with those communities moves to the fore.
At the moment, the West is reacting as the West typically does: with forebearance and tolerance and denial. This is, to an extent, as it should be: as Max Hastings points out, even our foolish goodness must be credited as evidence of goodness. But at some point even the good people, reared on fantasies of universal shared values and the innate benevolence of all peoples and cultures, will tire of rush-hour slaughterers from the next neighborhood over. This much is to be hoped: if they don't, then the global insurgency has no need to perpetrate bombings in a war it has already won.
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