What hope is there if we can't bring to justice those accused of wanting to destroy us

Friday, 12 September 2008 16:26

Max Hastings also takes issue with the outcome of the terror trial of the seven Muslims. Writing in the Daily Mail (10 Sept) he argues that 'more than a few British Muslims believe the police to be prejudiced against them. Polls show that hundreds of thousands publicly or privately sympathise with young jihadis who want to wage war on the West.'

'It is three years since the London bombings which caused 52 deaths. Some otherwise sensible people would like to believe that the terrorist threat is not now so grave; that some of the young Muslims scrutinised by the police and MI5 are not really serious about their plots.'

'Optimists say that many Muslim militants eventually come to their senses, grow out of their rage, as did Ed Husain. ... But what happens meanwhile? What is to be done about the alarmingly large number of twenty-something-year-old would-be martyrs who want to kill us in the name of Allah?'

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