[Mb-civic] Give Grandma a Pass - Charles Krauthammer - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

<>Give Grandma a Pass
Politically Correct Screening Won't Catch Jihadists

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, July 29, 2005; Page A23

Six percent of British Muslims -- more than 100,000 citizens -- thought 
the July 7 London terror attacks were justified. A quarter of British 
Muslims merely sympathize with the bombers. Even more shocking, nearly 
one-fifth of British Muslims say they feel little or no loyalty to 
Britain. Yet the most disturbing news from the July 23 London Telegraph 
poll is that these trends are worse among younger British Muslims.

These numbers, attesting to a massive failure of assimilation, are 
inconceivable in the United States, with its centuries of successful 
Americanization. This does not mean that there cannot be isolated cells 
of American Muslims -- or others, such as McVeigh types or antiabortion 
nuts -- who hate their country and want to attack it. But the massive, 
teeming suburbs of disaffected and alienated immigrants simply do not 
exist here.

Which is why, whatever terror attacks might be in our near future, in 
the long run America is much safer because its enemies overwhelmingly 
reside overseas.

Britain's problem, however, is not just an alienated minority but also a 
suicidal civic openness that permits sheiks and imams to openly preach 
jihad against Britain. The United States, for all of its openness, does 
not tolerate this kind of treason. Just this month, an imam from 
Virginia was put away for life for the kind of incitement that makes 
Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed a sought-after media presence in Britain.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/28/AR2005072801786.html?nav=hcmodule

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