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YouGov has conducted a very revealing poll of British Moslems for the Telegraph.

The vast majority of British Muslims condemn the London bombings but a substantial minority are clearly alienated from modern British society and some are prepared to justify terrorist acts.

The divisions within the Muslim community go deep. Muslims are divided over the morality of the London bombings, over the extent of their loyalty to this country and over how Muslims should respond to recent events.

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CNN reports from Cairo:-

The father of one of the hijackers who commandeered the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, praised the recent terror attacks in London and said many more would follow.

Speaking to CNN producer Ayman Mohyeldin Tuesday in his apartment in the upper-middle-class Cairo suburb of Giza, Mohamed el-Amir said he would like to see more attacks like the July 7 bombings of three London subway trains and a bus that killed 52 people, plus the four bombers.

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I don’t often travel to London these days.  I can’t feel the same for the place as I did in my childhood.  But it happened that last Thursday I was required to catch the 8.20 from Lewes to Victoria.  The previous evening a Portugeuse client had flown in to London to meet with me next day at 10.00am in a Bayswater hotel.  These guys pay the piper.  So a trip to town could not be avoided.

Actually, it was a pleasant enough journey - quiet carriage, no twenty stone slab of lard sitting next to me.  The rush hour was mostly past.  The train didn’t fill until it reached multicultural East Croydon.  It got in to Victoria shortly before 9.30am.

The next two hours of my life were spent going nowhere very fast and being dragged to the inevitable conclusion that my Portugeuse client would have to lunch alone.  I learned from the station tannoy that the Underground was closed due to “incidents”.  Other travellers, no less frustrated than I, had come into possession of the knowledge that somewhere a bus had been bombed.  Then the tannoy confirmed it.  Bus services were also suspended.  Outside the station, London’s amazingly ubiquitous black cabs had become as rare as hens’ teeth.  My mobile phone did not function.  I assumed that weight of call traffic was the cause (only later did I learn that the system was switched off for fear of remote detonation of terrorist bombs).

It was time to get out of town.

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I’ve just arrived home from London Victoria, having got no further into town.  I was only grateful to be able to escape the paralysis that has overtaken the city in the wake of the six reported Underground bombings and the bus bombing at Russell Square.  Of course, one’s heart goes out to those who stood unknowingly and defenceless in the terrorists’ path during this morning’s rush hour.

The picture will clarify through today, and it is too early now to comment on particulars.  I guess there was an inevitability about it.  London could not remain invulnerable, if it ever was to any meaningful degree.  The sundry travellers I have spoken to today were all remarkably sanguine as the story began to emerge and was passed from person to person.  It was a good, British response to hatred and myopia.

Well, it’s a war.  People die in wars.  So that’s alright then.  No need to mention it.  Right?