Step Away From Denial

Callimachus:

But it's in there. You don't start by pretending it's not or attacking those who notice.

What's in where?

Read this CBS News story to find out.

The world was shocked when the four suicide bombers blew themselves up that morning, especially when it turned out that they were British citizens. The four had been recruited to what is called the "Network," a web of radical Islamic organizations loosely affiliated to al Qaeda which has turned Britain into the western world’s richest breeding grounds for terrorists. How did this happen?

60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon met someone who knows. And for the first time he spoke about what it was like to be inside that network for ten years. His name is Hassan Butt. He’s only 26 years old, but some of the people he recruited were a lot younger than that.

Comments

[Josh Scholar]

It's interesting to note that Hassan couches his questioning of terrorism in Islam not only by saying that it's wrong, but also by saying that it's unislamic - but that it's a big problem in Islam that the problem is a violent streak in Islam.

It's somewhat contradictory. He's saying that terrorism is unislamic, but that the problem is in Islam. That's the attitude of a reformer. And reformers are as rare as hen's teeth.