The grievance business

One of the things that has troubled me about the civil rights movement is the sense of entitlement past discrimination has given minorities, particularly blacks. Muslims have copped much the same attitude, but with far less justification. CAIR, for example, whines constantly about the fact that people think of Muslims as terrorists, when the only ones most Americans know about are ones who wantonly kill people in order to become martyrs. Instead of accusing everybody else of discrimination, they'd do better to publicize the peaceful side of Islam. The problem with that is that the Saudis have promoted an archaic, fundamentalist form of Islam that reinforces the worst stereotypes.

British Muslims have the same problem, apparently. Note the subtext:

To combat terror the government has focused extensively on domestic legislation. While some of this will have an impact, the government must not ignore the role of its foreign policy.

The debacle of Iraq and now the failure to do more to secure an immediate end to the attacks on civilians in the Middle East not only increases the risk to ordinary people in that region, it is also ammunition to extremists who threaten us all.

In other words, give the terrorists what they want and they'll leave us alone. No mention of the civlians being targeted by the insurgents and sectarian militias in Iraq. If the U.S. and Britain pulled out tomorrow, whom would these people blame for all the carnage? I know whom Noam Chomsky would point to, but he's a crank. Unfortunately, he is a leading voice for the Democrat anti-war, anti-America jihadists.