The War Within: Radical Muslim Youth in Britain

January 25, 2007 by  
Filed under Culture

Christiane Amanpour reporting,

What struck us most was how deeply the Iraq war has radicalized today’s generation of young Muslims in Britain. Whether extreme or mainstream, they are angry about the war, angry that their country so devotedly follows U.S. foreign policy, angry at what they see as a worldwide war against Muslims and Islam.

“The new threat is radicalism. It’s a cause. Every young man wants a cause.”

This is not just going on in England, here is how this is happening in Africa too.

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