Fury over Blunkett's warning to Muslims

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/31/nimam31.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/10/31/ixnewstop.html

David Blunkett provoked renewed indignation from the Muslim community last night when he warned that extremist imams were increasing the terrorism threat by preying upon impressionable youngsters.

"We have to understand what is happening in a world where young men and women can be enjoined by their religious leaders to take their own lives and others as suicide bombers," he said.

The Home Secretary said the involvement of two British Muslims in a suicide attack in Israel this year demonstrated that "we are not completely untouched".

Apart from the two in Israel, in recent years Britain has supplied Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who masterminded the kidnap and murder of Daniel Pearl, an American journalist, in Pakistan. Originally from east London, he attended a British public school before dropping out of the LSE.

Richard Reid, born in London, tried to carry out a suicide attack on a Paris to Miami flight in December 2001 but was overpowered by passengers. There are seven British Muslims held by the Americans in Guantanamo Bay after being captured in Afghanistan.

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let me guess.....he's paranoid.