Silence over Mumbai
Sir: If Britain is still a safe haven for Lashkare-Taiba and Deobandi sympathisers (‘The global force behind Mumbai’s agony in our midst’, 6 December), this must place a big question mark on the government’s policy of dealing with home-grown terrorism.
The current policy seems to rest on two assumptions: namely that home-grown terrorism can be contained by propping up moderate representatives of the community to which terrorists belong; and that where a community contains both moderates and terrorists, they are implacably opposed to one another.
Both of these assumptions have been undermined by the Muslim community’s failure to demonstrate its collective anger about the carnage in Mumbai. This silence has illustrated that not only do state-funded moderate Muslims have no influence over terrorists, but that the perceived dichotomy between the two is considerably less than a chasm.
Randhir Singh Bains
Gants Hill, Essex
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