A free Europe has to stand firm

In the week in which the Danish cartoon crisis raged across the Muslim world, an opinion poll published in Britain made for deeply disturbing reading.

In the week in which the Danish cartoon crisis raged across the Muslim world, an opinion poll published in Britain made for deeply disturbing reading. The Times sampled 500 Muslims in Britain and asked a wide series of questions about their political and religious attitudes.

The results were extraordinarily revealing.

According to the poll, 37 per cent regarded British Jews as acceptable targets, 16 per cent regarded suicide bomb attacks in Israel as ...