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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48744)	7/21/2005 7:22:34 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

The root cause of terrorism in UK is a narrow-minded and totally confused approach of a minuscule but radical segment of British-born Pakistanis; their prejudices are definitely multiplied by seminaries, which they religiously visit in Pakistan, where from fiery pulpits mullahs cry themselves hoarse to reincarnate Edward Gibbons’s worries that if Islam had won the battle of Poitiers, ‘Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet.’ It is this mêlée of regaining their ‘Paradise Lost’ and over enthusiasm to see millions of newly circumcised people entering the tabernacle of Islam that propels a modern Islamist. The extremists believe that to be born and promised to rule the world simply cannot coexist as submissive to any structure in a pluralistic society. The events of Iraq and Afghanistan or Palestine are just to draw justifications and moral equivalence to legitimise their struggle of re-establishing a new global Caliphate. Wherever Islam was in minority, it expressed its dissent over the majority by overthrowing the rule of democracy and freedom; the very freedom that guarantees them the right to express is used to destroy the system. Only lower income groups send their children to seminaries in Pakistan, but it is sad to see that the affluent ‘dole’ rich Pakistani of the midlands make their pilgrimage to the land of pure in search of re-establishing the long lost glory of Islam. British-born Pakistanis should take some time out and reread the oath of allegiance or affirmation of the oath they have to take for the sovereign and UK once they are citizens of this country. Their actions against this land and its people are a brazen desecration of the very oath they take pledging loyalty to this government. Islam does not allow in any condition the betrayal of the covenant which is taken morally by every citizen of this very generous and pluralistic nation. The enemy is within our society; this desire of supremacy of Islam is a cancer that is eating us. The only thought that is supreme today is thinking that we belong to one nation of mankind; our destiny is strung together, hatred and bigotry has no place in our society, respect of human life is our supreme consideration. Any message that contradicts this basic human social contract is evil, and we should collectively make every endeavour to root it out. No one by any act of intense cowardice and treachery should hijack our basic inbuilt goodwill towards each other. We should realise that the 'modern world' is an interconnected world; we can either progress together or vanish into ignominy and global wilderness like other Talibinised Jihadi states of Afghanistan and Sudan. To be modern and progressive means acceptance of knowledge, rationalism and logic as the basis of our relationship with westerners. The extremists’ message is not an elixir but a poison chalice; Osama bin laden-led extremism represents a new evil that will lead Islam into an intellectual cul-de-sac and course of obliteration. Iqbal Latif Iqbal Latif