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What a surprise: Jihadwatch manages to take something said by an Anglican ArchBishop and completely distort it to use as a punching bag for their ideology hatred and intolerance of Islam. And Skyrider then posts it verbatim as though the Jihadwatch spin resembles at all the article they cite.

Point #1: "Dr John Sentamu said it was not enough to rely on the security services and tough laws to combat the killers."

And it isn't. And this should be common sense to anyone, and counter-terrorism experts have even said as much themselves. If extremists want to kill you badly enough they will find a way, and 9/11 and the thousands of terror attacks before and after are proof of this.

Point #2: "During his presidential address to the General Synod of the Church of England, he said the country needed to "out-imagine, out-plan and out-think" would-be bombers."

In other words, its time to think outside the box because what we've been doing so far hasn't stemmed the tide of terrorism, it didn't stop 9/11, the Madrid bombing, or the 7/7 attack, or almost the daily attacks in Iraq and in Israel.

Point #3: "Speaking at the University of York, the archbishop said flourishing, safe, clean and generous neighbourhoods need to be created."

I don't know if or how much this will help, but it is an idea that hasn't been tried and is worthy of at least some further thought if nothing else, rather than being dismissed outright.

Point #4: "And he said the grievances which would-be bombers use as a reason to kill must be addressed."

This thinking is very much outside the box, because the current attitude is that these people kill simply because they hate, and that if we can kill them in return then terrorism will end. This is the paradox that counter-terrorism professionals face, and while it may be necessary to kill them to prevent an attack, or future attacks, it does nothing to combat the underlying forces that lead to radicalization. It simply puts a band-aid on a gaping wound.

Final point: "Offering a vision of wholeness in a compelling and imaginative way that is so persuasive that would-be bombers would come to see this as their own vision."

Here he is not talking about the Jihadis who are about to strap on the suicide belt, he is talking about those Muslims who are suseptible to the Osama Bin Ladens, who are so good at inspiring them by giving them "a vision which tragically is used solely for evil ends".

In other words, the Arch Bishop says they need to be reached before they cross the line seperating the ordinary Muslims from the Jihadists. He believes the way to do this is to really integrate them, the ordinary Muslims, into our society where they will be more likely to adopt our values, which don't include suicide bombing, than toss them into ghettos as is the norm in much of Europe, and discriminate against them based upon their religion, and otherwise treating them as second class citizens and outsiders who are then left to become the prey of those who preach extremism.

Now maybe none of you agree with the solution he offers, but in any case its a far cry from the spin made by Jihadwatch, which has once again distorted something to make it into a target for their endless spew of hatred, derision, and intolerance.

Skybird, how quick you are to attack someone who offers solutions without even stating what, it is you disagree with and why. Not to mention the fact that the Arch Bishop you are attacking is at least offering solutions to be thought about and discussed, which is a hell of a lot more than you do around here given that you have no solutions of your own - just more of the same bull**** from you: hatred, intolerance, distortion, and hysteria. You are endless fountain of that.