Resist anti-Islamic panic
The proposals by senior Tory politicians, clerics and police chiefs to trash civil liberties on pretext of the threat from the Islamic State movement in Iraq and Syria should be resisted as illiberal and even stupid. There is no doubt the Islamists of Islamic State are unpleasant, violent reactionaries. Some of the footage posted on You Tube — of murders and beheadings — is disgusting. IS is a real threat. It is also probable that some of the young British men and women who have left the UK to fight in Syria and joined the jihadist “cause” do pose a potential threat if they return to Britain...