Scary Stuff

Ali sat in his car waving at the girls in the Bury district of Luton yesterday, dressed in tracksuit bottoms and expensive sunglasses.
He may have looked like a well-integrated second-generation Asian, but Ali, a Luton-born Muslim of Pakistani parents, is an angry young man.
"We are all drawn to Islam down here. We are all Muslims. I'm angry at the West. They're grieving 52 people who died in London, but I've been grieving the death of thousands of children in Palestine, in Chechnya, in Kashmir, in Iraq, since I was 15.
"When Fallujah happened and so many innocents died, no one asked the Muslim youths what they felt. But now that London's happened, you are asking us why," he said.
Ali said he believed it was not just Luton's youth that had become politicised over the past decade, but young men across the country, through a growing Muslim consciousness.
"Our parents came here as servants with a Raj mentality. We're not like them. It's not just the BBC and ITV any more. We have al-Jazeera, we have the internet. We live in a globalised society. The world has become a smaller village. If something happens to innocent people in Iraq, the Muslims of Luton will know about it and feel that grief."
Ali dismissed Tony Blair's meeting at Downing Street with the country's 20 most prominent members of the Muslim community as a "PR exercise", and said he believed these "elders" were out of touch with disenchanted Muslim youth.