If you're interested in the real deal on al-Qaeda, you MUST check out Peter Taylor's new series. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/4683403.stm
This guy really knows his stuff - he's done series on the Troubles in Northern Ireland before (from all three perspectives - IRA, Loyalists, the brits) plus a previous one on al-Qaeda (see my previous post with a URL for this).
First episode, catchily called Jihad.com, was gripping and made me incredulous that so many jihadis or jihadist sympathisers have been allowed to come to the UK (or even given asylum here) and then allowed to host websites calling for jihad against their hosts and allies! Unreal!
Much as I hate the right-wingers like the Daily Mail I have to agree that it's time say free speech is being abused and lines have to be drawn. Mine would be - give your opinion, but you can't call for violence against anyone, full stop.
U.S.-type First Amendment rights are a right and a privilege, but once they're abused it's time to say you have to use them responsibly or lose their free use.
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