Thursday 7 January 2010

It's the thirties all over again

It's the thirties all over again: "


A piece in American Thinker by Steve McGregor, a former student at University College London where the Christmas Day bomber Umar Abdulmutallab studied between 2005 and 2008, makes an important point which does not receive enough attention. This concerns the general climate of opinion, not just at UCL but in the wider British society, which is doing so much to undermine Britain’s role in the defence of the free world. McGregor writes:

As an American studying in London, I interviewed several protesters at the G20 protests earlier this year. Outside the American Embassy, a crowd gathered to protest the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. ‘I don't think al-Qaeda exists,’ one man told me. ‘If you went to Arab countries, you'd see the peace.’ Many in the crowd shared his sentiment that al-Qaeda is simply a convenient myth used by the Bush administration to wage war. A startling number of people believe that the ‘U.S. government’ was behind the 9/11 attacks.

... While some students have already commented on the startling presence of extremist Islamic groups at UCL, I've noticed a more troubling absence of

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