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A year after the July 7 London subway bombing, a generational gap in North London mosques

Young radical Islamists meet in a room next door to the main mosque.

Someone named Abu Muwaheed, who looks like a teenage boy with a head scarf, leads a large group of more teenage boys with head scarfs in a discussion of the "Saviour Sect." The subway bombings were, he explains, the fault of the British government, as well as the fault of the British people who elected that government. There's a multimedia presentation showing scenes of wounded Iraqis and messages from Osama bin Laden. The crowd cheers when 9/11 is mentioned.

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Next door, in the Lea Bridge Road Mosque, Imam Ghulam Rabbani says that he was unaware of the tenor of these meetings, and is shocked at what's occurring. When Rabbani preaches in the main mosque, the average age of the people in his audience appears to be around 50.

This report appeared on Friday afternoon on CNN International, during the extensive coverage commemorating the London subway bombings of a year ago, on July 7.

Suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer <font size=-2>(Source: The Sun)</font>

Suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer (Source: The Sun)

As I explained in detail last year, the London bombers were ordinary Muslim British citizens, born near London, but radicalized by trips to Pakistan, their parents having come from the explosive Kashmir region disputed by Pakistan and India.

One of the suicide bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, was a very wealthy young man. In a moved timed to coincide with the July 7 commemoration, an Islamic website associated with al-Qaeda released a video of Tanweer, identifying him as having been trained by al-Qaeda.

The bombings were a shock to everyone, but none more so than the mortified Muslim parents of kids living in the same neighborhood. "What if my son decides to do the same thing?" they wondered.

This generational gap is a good example of where things are going, and it shows why I keep reminding readers that the median age in the Gaza strip is 15.6.

Most people think that "children learn from their parents." That's true to some extent, but the whole point of Generational Dynamics is that children don't learn from the parents or, more precisely, learn the wrong things from their parents.

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, it's this younger generations, in cultures around the world, that are going to lead the world into the next world war, the "Clash of Civilizations" world war. As we see London-born youngsters become increasingly radicalized, and as we see the violence escalate in the Mideast, we have to realize that the time cannot be very far off. (7-Jul-06) Permanent Link
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