Drones and destabilisation programs overseas, persecution of dissenting groups at home, hammering journos and their sources because they can; could all this be a self-fulfilling pattern of an attitude, an approach to the world, gone wrong?
Meanwhile bridges collapse, schools cut back their hours and the homeless and dispossessed grow in number.
How many officers of the law were in that room in Florida with the friend of the Boston bombers when they had no option but to shoot him dead? I guess we won't be hearing what he had to say.
Isn't it becoming increasingly obvious that world leaders are lying to us? That the democratic agenda has been high-jacked? That the world's economy is crumbling while fear and loathing stalk the lands.
Somehow and somewhere we got it so very wrong.
Megalomaniac leaders offering transparent, pathological lies are not the answer.
Neither is decapitation.
We are all in some serious deep trouble, and we are all in it together!

Thank you, Des Moore, (is that an anogram?) for a very incisive article.

Islam and terrorism are linked, because Islam is a warriors religion which has very close similarities to the old Norse religions, in which the superior norseman "died with a sword in his hand".

Mohammad the warlord, who successfuly condicted over 60 military campaigns, created a new religion to justify his conquests, and to make his soldiers fearless in battle. It was a formula that worked very well for Islam.

Central to Islam, is the belief that it is entirely correct to spread Islam through violence, and to kill pagans who do not convert to Islam. Also central to Muslim belief, is the idea that men who go on jihad to spread Islam, are the finest sorts of Muslims there are. No other religion (other than the Thuggees) has such a culture where total contempt and extreme violence towards non believers is ordained by God and written part of their holy scriptures.

The problem is Islam. The more Muslim a society is, the more backward it is. And guess which countries are the ones most supportive of Osama bin Laden and his band of merry Jihadis?

These countries have shunned the modern world and they are paying a terrible price for it. But rather than do what the protestant Christians did 400 years ago, and reform their religion, the Muslims of today are stuck in a time warp of their own making. They envy and resent the freedoms and prosperity of the Europeans and the Asians, but they are entirely unwilling to unchain their minds and do something positive about it.

All they can do is to lash out in frustation at those who reject their religious concepts of right and wrong, and who enjoy their lives

It is a source of never-ending wonder to me how simple, how black and white, the world looks from behind the pointed finger.

Islam has a serious problem with findamentalism and violence, but that its not the same as saying that all Muslims are violent fundamentalists.

Des Moore says "a considerable proportion of British Muslims are either sympathetic to violent action by extremists or prepared to play a role in it." that's a pretty strong statement; I wonder if he is able to back it up.

LEGO asks if Des Moore is an anagram. “Doom seer”, perhaps?

Oh dear what's next Obama is a undercover moslem.

The percentage of Moslems who are radical terrorists does not define Islam.

The "prophet" and the "holy books" on which they base their religion (which means their influence on the life of the countries in which they set up "communities") do define Islam - the strategy not just the tactics. Islam in formal or informal authority reveals its nature: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Eqypt, Nigeria - the list goes on and on.

How do they relate to human rights? Including the right to adhere to or leave a religion at any time (apostasy), the right to free choice of life partner, the right to reject any rules or pronouncements of any religion (blasphemy, impiety)?

Can someone who took a bride under 10 years old and conducted some 60 or so wars of conquest be openly labelled a murderous paedophile, without someone risking violent retribution?

Do the "holy books" accord equivalent rights to men and women, e.g. in marriage?

"Ah, but what about Christianity?" ask the Western apologists. The difference - the huge difference - is the freedom for Christians and non-Christians to reject, openly, anything in the Christian holy books without becoming targets for knifing, stoning or beheading. To be sure, everything vile about Islam has at one time been true also of Christianity, but the Enlightenment turned the civilised world away from those evils. How has the world of Islam related to the Enlightenment? How does it now?