Cairo - Fifty years ago, no Egyptian would have believed that a fight between two children - a Muslim and a Christian - could ignite violence requiring the presence of truckloads of heavily-armed riot police to contain it. But this happened last month in the once cosmopolitan Mediterranean city of Alexandria, albeit in one of the city's poorer districts. There, a fist fight between two boys in front of a church turned into a full-blown sectarian clash between Muslims and Christians.
Across town from the site of the recent attempted car-bomb attacks, several thousand Muslims gathered in front of the London Central Mosque to applaud fiery preachers prophesying the overthrow of the British government –
ثقافتنا العليلة وشعوبها المخدوعهالعلمانية لم تؤدي الي تمني دولة الكفر
محمد البدري
.شهر يونيو هو شهر الهزائم بجدارة. فيه ايضا حوصرت العاصمة اللبنانية بعد ان اغتر ياسر عرفات برجاله للمرة الثانية بعد غروره الاول في ايلول الاسود وحاول مجددا الحرب عبر عاصمة اخري باعتبار ان الطريق الي القدس يمر عبر كل عواصم الشرق لتحويلها الي انقاض قبل ان يدخل هو القدس كما دخلوه اول مرة. فالايام العصيبة تلزم المصابين بها من عمل تقييم واعاده فهم لما جري مع التخلي عن الثقة الفائقة والغرور المتعنت بلا مبرر.فصحة المبادئ وحقائق القوة ومكامن الثروه لم تعد في صالحنا.
حينما كنت طفلاً رددت شعر حافظ إبراهيم: بلاد العرب أوطاني وكل العرب إخواني.. إلخ، ومع مرور الوقت أدركت الحقيقة أن لا بلاد العرب أوطاني ولا العرب إخواني، واكتشفت أن العروبة خطر حقيقي علي مصر وعرفت أن مصر بلدي مستهدفة من الإخوة الأشقاء!
The battle to deal with radicalisation in the fight against terrorism could take at least 15 years to achieve, the UK's new security minister has said.
How I befriended a Glasgow bomb suspect and Islamic radical
Former extremist Shiraz Maher recalls his friendship with Bilal Abdulla
Times on Line
When I saw the name of Bilal Abdulla – one of those arrested in connection with suspected bomb attacks – in the news, I recognised it immediately, although it took me a while to be completely sure. This was the same Bilal I had known when I was a student at Cambridge – a time when I had become a radical Muslim.
AT least one of the suspects being quizzed over the alleged plot to set off car bombs in Britain was in recent contact with Al-Qaeda in Iraq, senior security officials said yesterday.
BBC News 
