Muslims' links with training camps make Britain a terrorist breeding ground
By Zia Haider Rahmen http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/news/200 7/05/01/nplot1001.xml <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/news/20 07/05/01/nplot1001.xml&site=5&page=0> &site=5&page=0 Last Updated: 1:41am BST 01/05/2007 Yesterday's conviction of five would-be bombers raises once again, if the question ever went away: why is Britain a fertile recruiting ground for Islamist extremists? Why is it that some young Muslim males hate Britain so much that they would visit mass atrocities upon their own country? Alongside the convictions there came from the government more Britishness talk. Three weeks ago, on the occasion of a number of arrests, Ruth Kelly was wheeled out to opine about British values. Yesterday, we had Jack Straw, who, with little more than a titular role in government these days, presumably had time on his hands. None of this talk will make even a dent on any would-be terrorists, who have already set about planning the next bombing. If any of this obsessive navel-gazing about British values takes hold in terms of tangible policies, we should not for a moment imagine that Islamist terrorism will diminish overnight. It is not for want of some mythic Britishness that these individuals have turned to violence. The Britishness project will bring gains only if it is accompanied by real changes in the lives of immigrants. The Rowntree Foundation reported yesterday that Pakistanis and Bangladeshis continued to face difficulties in the labour market. There is no doubt that the perceived grievances of some Muslim men are real, although it is likely that a culture of victimhood has exaggerated those claims. The criminals convicted yesterday might well have been drawn to Pakistan by disenfranchisement from Britain: what we are seeing is that home-grown terrorists are not stupid men but are intelligent and educated, and are probably keenly aware of some of the inequities that still pervade Britain. Nevertheless, we must note that they were schooled in some of the most pernicious madrassas and training camps of Pakistan, finishing schools for the budding terrorist. What makes the threat from Islamist terrorists so real in Britain is the enduring link between its Pakistani Muslim communities and those camps. And that takes us back to government policy. Britain has enlisted the support of Pakistan in the war on terrorism, notably in Afghanistan. Will the political demand for securing some kind of success story in Afghanistan, now that Iraq is a bloody mess, mean that this government will not challenge Pakistan over the camps? 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