London (Nachträge)
Die NYT berichtet wieder über Ermittlungen gegen einen islamischen Wohltätigkeitsverein. Dieses Mal wird der “Crescent Relief” verdächtigt.* Jetzt scheinen die Beziehungen stichhaltiger zu sein als beim letzten Verdacht: der Vater eines der Attentäters ist ein Mitbegründer dieses Vereins, zudem sollten letztes Jahr ₤ 50.000 ohne Angabe eines ordentlichen Verwendungszwecks abgehoben werden.
Der TELEGRAPH wiederum meldet einen Meinungsumschwung in der britischen Bevölkerung:
Islam poses a threat to the West, say 53pc in poll
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The proportion of those who believe that “a large proportion of British Muslims feel no sense of loyalty to this country and are prepared to condone or even carry out acts of terrorism” has nearly doubled from 10 per cent a year ago to 18 per cent now.The number who believe that “practically all British Muslims are peaceful, law-abiding citizens who deplore terrorist acts as much as any- one else” has fallen from 23 per cent in July last year to 16 per cent. However, there remains strong opposition to the security profiling of airline passengers based on their ethnicity or religion.
A higher proportion than last year now feels that the police and MI5 should focus their counter-terrorism efforts on Muslims and far fewer people are worried that such an approach risks dividing the country or offending law-abiding Muslims.
Most strikingly, there has been a substantial increase over the past five years in the numbers who appear to subscribe to a belief in a clash of civilisations. When YouGov asked in 2001 whether people felt threatened by Islam, as distinct from fundamentalist Islamists, only 32 per cent said they did. That figure has risen to 53 per cent.
* http://crescentrelief.org/
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