As this piece profiling the fine "pleasant and kind" young men who killed and maimed hundreds asserts.

LEEDS, England (AP) - Shahzad Tanweer, the 22-year-old son of a Pakistani-born affluent businessman, turned to Islam, the religion of his birth, a few years ago. The transformation was gradual, but then his relentless reading of the Quran and daily prayers became almost an obsession, his friends told The Associated Press. He became withdrawn and increasingly angry over the war in Iraq, according to those who knew him best.

The U.S.-led war was what likely drove him to blow himself up on a subway train last week, said his friends.

<Well I guess that makes it OK then>

"He was a Muslim and he had to fight for Islam. This is called jihad," or holy war, said Asif Iqbal, 20, who said he was Tanweer's childhood friend.

Another friend, Adnan Samir, 21, nodded in agreement.

"They're crying over 50 people while 100 people are dying every day in Iraq and Palestine," said Iqbal. "If they are indeed the ones who did it, it's because they believed it was right. They're in Heaven.

As we can see, there seems to be a wee bit of a societal problem with the attitudes in the local Muslim community even as hundreds of working class folks were wontonly slaughtered by an organization publicly intent on utterly destroying Western civilization. And the liberal press' attitude that if only we'd stop this war with Iraq and frantically appease the jihadists, "the alligator would eat us last" - Jefferson.