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The Spectator’s Notes | 16 June 2007

Anyone who believes British Muslim hostility to the war in Iraq is the big motivator of terrorism should read Shiv Malik in Prospect.

issue 16 June 2007

Anyone who believes British Muslim hostility to the war in Iraq is the big motivator of terrorism should read the fascinating cover piece by Shiv Malik in the latest edition of Prospect. Investigating the background of the 7 July London bombings for a television drama (which the BBC, of course, eventually rejected as ‘anti-Muslim’), Malik found how Wahhabist Islamism did its work.

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