Put Britain on terrorist watch list

Countries around the world will have to put Britain on terrorist watch list and citizens traveling from or towards Britain should be made to go through extra security check. This arrogant nation is very much the cause of miseries that is crossing boundaries. Quite accidentally as I was browsing the Net this morning I came across an interview of Wole Soyinka. Nigeria one of the prominent countries of African continent is in serious crisis, religious fundamentalism is eating into this society, as is the case of poor societies around the world. Subtle and quaint cultures that allowed people to coexist for centuries are finding their identities being redefined and their world mutilated. Understandably Soyinka is agitated "England is a cesspit. England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. "This is part of the character of Great Britain". "Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness." And so it is, he says, that Britain lets everyone preach whatever they want: It confirms a self-image of greatness.

"The Muslim Abdulmutallab (the young man who boarded a flight in Amsterdam on Christmas Day with a bomb in his underpants) believed in his own, alien deity, and yet, another deity—Ogun—protected his fellow travelers. In this case, the indigenous deity that (Abdulmutallab) carried inside him—Ogun, the god of wayfarers—thwarted his plan. The young man's suppressed deity came out…" Here, he chuckled wisely and added: "It's a poetic conceit, but I love it."

Will radical Islam take root in the United States, as it has elsewhere in the West? Mr. Soyinka was confident that it would not. "I doubt you can have the kind of indoctrination schools in America as you do in the U.K. Besides, there's a large body of American Muslims in the U.S.—the Nation of Islam—which has created a kind of mainstream Muslim institution. The Muslims there are open Muslims, whereas in Europe they tend to go into ghetto schools".

"The Nation of Islam provides an antidote in the United States to fundamentalist Islam—which is why individuals from America have to go abroad to find radical teachings."

(courtesy The Daily Beast. Visit www.thedailybeast.com )