What will be the repercussion on Islam and Muslims of Southasian origin?
Well, I don’t think the London bombing has too much to do with Islam. They were carried out by young Muslims. As one of the suspects who was arrested in Italy confessed, when they were thinking about actions like this, they were not reading the Holy Quran or theology but were watching the tapes of what Americans had done to the Iraqi town of Fallujah. And they were watching the deaths of innocents in Iraq brought about by the result of the British and American occupation in Iraq. That is what motivated them. Everyone knows the London bombings were a direct result of Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq. Blair’s re-election in Britain made these young people completely desperate and crazy. They carried out this act of senseless carnage to show their anger and ended up taking the lives of many innocent civilians as well as their own. After 9/11 and London bombings, some Western commentators and scholars are arguing that Islam as a religion is fundamentalist. The notion that there is a p
