I don't understand British Muslim complacency and self-defensiveness in respect to militant Islam in our midst.

 

How many Madrid's or 7/7's do they think Europeans will take on the chin, before they elect governments very different to the ones we have at the moment and far less bothered about Muslims' human rights? When you are under threat the rules change.

 

I'm not worried for my own sake, but for the sake of likeable Muslims who live here. Because eventually there will be a terrible backlash if this terrorist threat (let alone its repeated realization) should continue for very long. If it does come to a "war of civilisations" we will all be losers, but by far the biggest losers will be Muslims, especially those living in Europe.

 

If they don't recognise their responsibility for it and deal with the problem they will regret it sorely. But, unfortunately, most Muslims don't even see Islamic militancy as their particular problem, are even inclined to blame it on the British government.

 

Islamic militants remind me of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party, who wanted to greatly expand German territory, but ended up greatly reducing it.

 

Muslims urgently need to recognise the threat posed by militant Islam to their own future in Europe.