article_snippet: Following the terror attacks in London on July 7, 2005, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted those responsible were motivated by an "evil ideology," a "perversion of Islam that promoted absurd grievances," and that those responsible had nothing to do with the war in Iraq, but the then Prime Minister Tony Blair was wrong: the Iraq "adventure" opened the gates of hell, and today young Muslims are being seduced by an updated narrative.
article_snippet: For over a decade mosque leaders have been asked to eradicate extremism but a decade mosque leaders are no more than glorified gatekeepers whose lives bear little relevance to those of most modern day Muslims.
article_snippet: The need to tackle radical preachers has crushed political debate and created a dangerous vacuum which is now being filled outside of mosques.
article_snippet: Every new atrocity is invariably followed by useless public statements of sorrow from so-called "Muslim leaders," further increasing the anger felt by the younger community -- successfully drawing young Muslims away from the path of violence takes more than routine declarations that "Islam is a religion of peace.
article_snippet: Many young Muslim people asserting Many young Muslim people identity in an Islamophobic society detest the hypocrisy of Many young Muslim people elders, whose cultural and sectarian traditions Many young Muslim people consider irrelevant to modern day Islam.
article_snippet: While mosques pay lip service to the "brotherhood of man" they exclude 50% of the community by discouraging women from attending, and anyone below the age of fifty is told to shut up and show respect.
article_snippet: Young British Muslims live a schizophrenic existence, stuck between Young British Muslims immigrant parents' cultural identity and that of the West which doesn't want their immigrant parents'.
article_snippet: Extremists exploit this identity crisis by offering Extremists a new life.
article_snippet: The exploitation of the politics of fear combined with tougher terror laws has created a climate of fear for Muslims who are portrayed as threatening a "civilized" way of life.
article_snippet: We are quick to forget recent history: the disastrous treatment of the Catholic community in Northern Ireland produced a sense of burning injustice which acted as a recruiting sergeant for the IRA for more than four decades.
article_snippet: Today, Muslims are being dealt with in the same way.