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Militarized Islamist fundamentalism, or what is now known as al-Qācida, is responsible for all this death and destruction. They were responsible for the 9/11 attacks and the bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar el Salaam in 1998, which killed more than 200 people, mostly civilians.
The West is now facing the challenge of how to deal with Muslims and how to differentiate between different Islamic trends. This problem does not only concern official authorities. It involves ordinary people with varied ways of life and points of view.
In the aftermath of the London blasts and the murder of the Egyptian ambassador to Iraq, Dr. Ihāb al-Sharīf, we need to take positive steps to guarantee that no more terrorist attacks will occur.
Before, the British only knew Muslims as people whom they governed. Today they are living in British cities alongside locals. It is important to note that while Christians in Lebanon are native citizens, Muslims in Britain have come from foreign countries and are not yet completely assimilated....
"We know these people act in the name of Islam but we also know the vast and overwhelming majority of Muslims here and abroad are decent and law-abiding people who abhor this act of terrorism"[http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1523867,00.html], said Tony Blair in his statement...
The London bombings brought back phrases like “Arab Terrorism” and “Islamic Terrorism” to the International arena. The message was obviously directed at the Arab and Islamic world, even though Toni Blair’s speech and the address from the UN Security Council did not say that explicitly.
The first question that comes to mind after the London explosions is: what took them so long? The answer may be that in the past four years the British authorities have succeeded in preventing attacks on a number of occasions.
Terrorism usually comes like a bolt from the blue, but not so the explosions in London. Some British Islamist leaders have been warning for months that such violence was imminent.
The prominent Egyptian writer and scholar Dr. Sayyed al-Qimnī has suddenly declared that he renounces all his previous writings, which discussed Islamic tradition from historical and critical perspectives. He said that he had received an assassination threat from the Jihād Organization via an email...
After the London blast and the assassination of the Egyptian envoy in Iraq, we realized the existence of a problem bigger than the dilemma of terrorism. The new problem is the existence of those sympathizing with terrorism. Unfortunately, there are some of the old guard of journalists and writers...

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