The results of the telephone poll conducted by GM-JCMA, Gay Men's Jewish-Christian-Muslim Alliance, between 14 and 28 July 2005 was that, of the 420 gay men called, they found the following persons “the greatest danger and threat to the British public for their publicly expressed support and solidarity for Muslim terrorists”. The four persons were Britain's most senior police officer, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair (85%), his right-hand man, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick (95%), London Mayor Ken Livingstone (100%) and Baroness Tonge, former Richmond Park MP (85%).

Many of the people we called stated that the Qu'ran had been selectively quoted by apologists for Muslim terrorists when they claimed there was no justification in the Qu'ran for the atrocities London had experienced. The verse quoted by these apologists is Surah 5:32 (Medina): "We ordained that if anyone killed a person...not in retaliation of murder or in punishment...it would be as if he killed all Mankind. And if anyone saved a life it would be as if he saved the life of all Mankind."

However, the very next verse, Surah 5:33 (Medina), states: "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger. and strive with main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter."

Surah 9: 5 (Medina) is clearer and states: "Fight and slay the Pagans wherever you find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every strategem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and establish regular charity, then open the way for them, for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most merciful."

We now address the four persons indentified by our 420 members and service users as public dangers in our telephone poll.

Baroness Tonge (pictured left), former Richmond Park MP Dr Tonge, whose expression of solidarity with Palestinian suicide bombers has led to the leader of her Liberal Democrat party, Charles Kennedy, receiving a severe admonishment when he became the first such party leader to address a meeting of the Jewish British Board of Deputies on 19 June 2005. When questioned by United Synagogue representative Alex Brummer as to why he had elevated Dr Tonge to the House of Lords, after having immediately sacked her from his front bench following her comments, Kenned y defended his action by stating that such an honour was awarded only "in terms of length of service and seniority". When it was then pointed out to him by Glaswegian Deputy Judith Tankel that this had "caused very considerable offence" (to Jews) he replied: "To be honest, point taken, but there are limitations and requirements upon which I...have to follow". (Mark Scodie, Jewish Chronicle, 24 June 2005)

Following the publication of Damon Silk’s (Director of Gay Men’s AIDS Forum - GMAF) letter in Richmond & Twickenham Times on 24 June 2005, defending Positively Healthy CEO Cass Mann's democratic right to criticise MP Tonge, he was later made aware, in an article by Simon Rocker in the same edition of the aforementioned Jewish Chronicle, of data from the Home Office confirming that a new offence of "glorifying or condoning acts of terrorism" is to be included in anti-terrorism legislation expected to become British law in September 2005, which would be, according to the Community Security Trust, "...of great help in dealing with incitement to terrorism and promoting the ideology of terrorism in the UK...". Under this legislation a prosecution could arguably be made of Baroness Tonge should she then repeat her endorsement of Palestinian suicide bombers.

Baroness Tonge addressed a Parliamentary lobby on 13 July 2005 and stated that she could understand "to some extent how suicide bombing happens in Palestine. But to do it in Britain by our own people? Can you imagine w hat was going on in these people's minds?” (sic). She then told MPs precisely "what was going on in these people's minds" by stating: "There was no question that the motive was not just Iraq or British backing of American policy. It is our support for Israel as well." (Bernard Josephs, Jewish Chronicle, 15 July 2005).

Media commentators, religious and community leaders, and politicians have all made a constellation of assumptions about what motivated the London suicide bombers, but not one has had or has produced the evidence to link the massacres to the killers' views on the Palestine/Israel conflict. Either Baroness Tonge was in contact with the killers in order to so clearly and categorically make and state the link in knowing their motivation, which is most unlikely, or she is, as usual, continuing her single-minded obsessive tirade against Israel. More worryingly racist is her ultra-nimbyism ('not-in-my-back-yard'-ism) when she validates suicide bombing in Israel by Palestinian Arabs, or their sympathisers, but not "...in Britain by our own people".

Suicide bombing respects no geographical limits and once this evil genie is unleashed it spreads indiscriminately like any poison gas, even to our green and pleasant land, and can never be put back into its bottle. The Rand Corporation study on suicide bombing published on 17 July 2005 described this as "the world's most common form of terrorism...and by far the most effective", and stated that suicide bombing "posed a constant threat in the West". Therefore when Baroness Tonge, along with the evil and monstrous London Mayor Ken Livingstone, validates suicide bombing in Israel, this validates the entire methodology which has now been used to such devastating effect in Britain, which they condemn only when conducted in Britain.

If Baroness Tonge continues to express her solidarity with suicide bombers after proposed British anti-terror legislation becomes law she risks prosecution, as suggested by Home Officer Minister Hazel Blears, who stated on 15 July 2005 that the offence of "indirect incitement" would cover "circumstances where people seek to glorify terrorist activity, for example saying 'Isn't this a marvellous thing?' and 'These people are martyrs'" (Daily Mail, 16 July 2005), and to which statements Baroness Tonge's would dovetail when she stated:"...if I was a Palestinian granny...and had lived under Israeli occupation for decades...it might be that's what would happen (my becoming a suicide bomber)".

Surely it is not inconceivable that impressionable young Muslims may be swayed by a British MP expressing support and solidarity for suicide bombers and this, added to the incitement to jihad by certain Muslim imams, could well tip them over the edge into becoming suicide bombers, as they would feel vindicated by such high-level support for their actions. Suicide bombing does not occur except in the context of such support and vindication, and the provision of such is what Hazel Blears is legislating against. Even the despicable London Mayor Ken Livingstone distanced himself from such personal identification with suicide bombers, as vouchsafed by Baroness Tonge, in his interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on 20 July 2005, and this now isolates and disgraces Baroness Tonge as having been the only British politician on record to have expressed such personal identification and support.

Hazel Blears went on to say: "They may not be directly inciting people to go out and do something, but it could be considered by people hearing it as an endorsement of terrorism." As many of both Positively Healthy’s and GMAF’s service users are British Muslims, it is these men and their extended families who have been most outraged and infuriated by Baroness Tonge's personal identification with suicide bombers, even to the extent of her having held two minutes silence at a House of Commons meeting of MPs she chaired in March 2004 to honour Sheikh Yassin, the Palestinian-born godfather of suicide bombing and founder of terrorist group Hamas (the leading perpetrator of terrorist activity throughout the Territories as well as inside Israel), who had been killed by Israeli troops on 22 March 2004.

So while Baroness Tonge led two minutes silence to honour Sheikh Yassin, the icon of suicide bombers, just over one year later, Britain stops for two minutes silence to honour those massacred and injured by those he malevolently influenced.

Melanie Phillips' on-line column of 2 April 2004, regarding The Jewish Chronicle's report on "a rally by pro-Palestinian activists (in the Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons) (referred to above) which condemned the killing of Hamas terrorist leader Sheikh Yassin by Israeli troops"

continued: "The Jewish Chronicle wrote: 'Chaired by Liberal Democrat MP Jenny Tonge. the meeting saw activists and several MPs stand for two minutes' silence in honour of the Hamas leader” and she comments: "So they honour a man who was responsible for the mass murder of innocents. Those whom he murdered are not only not honoured, but their memory is utterly and disgustingly betrayed. Who are these MPs whose moral sense is so deeply corrupted? Come on, mainstream media - name them, and shame them; reaffirm elementary decency and moral reasoning; wake up to what is happening here before it is too late."

Well, we know the name of at least one of these MPs, the vile Dr Jenny Tonge, and we find her actions comparable to chairing a meeting of British MPs to honour Adolf Hitler with two minutes silence in the House of Commons following his suicide in 1945. “Sheikh Yassin, whom Dr Tonge honoured, was the 'spiritual founder' of Hamas and his brand of 'spirituality' the very ideological and emotional fuel that drives Palestinian terrorism. Yassin continually called for suicide bombing as a religious obligation, and even said about himself that ‘the day in which I will die as a shahid [martyr] will be the happiest day of my life.’" (interview with Al-Quds, 26 July 1998)

Rachel Ehrenfeld writes in National Review on 10 May 2004, in an article titled 'London’s Jihadists : The U.K. must crack down on resident Islamists'

"These diplomats, in the tradition of Islamist-Arab propaganda, continue to argue...that Israel is the cause — that it has for 'decades poisoned relations between the West and the Islamic and Arab worlds.' It is not surprising, therefore, that the resignation of Liberal Democrat MP Jenny Tonge was not required after she condoned Palestinian suicide bombings, stating i n Parliament, 'I would be a suicide bomber in Israel.' A police source in London, when asked why this incitement is allowed, responded that law enforcement officials are 'unhappy with the situation,' but that they are unable to prosecute the instigators because 'our hands are tied. It's a political decision.' Political leaders ought to heed the warning sirens before the terrorists strike — as promised."

At a time London is under siege and threat from Islamic fundamentalist suicide bombers, who have massacred 56 and injured 723, and when we are in urgent need of the toughest possible policing and security measures to protect us, we are being abominably served by those who lead and direct London's Metropolitan Police, who, in their public statements on the recent bombings, appear to be more concerned with establishing political correctness in their effort to sever the terrorism we have all so clearly experienced, from the root causes which drove these suicide bombers to target London.

London's most senior police officer, Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair (right), is on record as stating: “There is nothing wrong with being (an Islamic) fundamentalist." (Evening Standard, 14 July 2005), with his second in command, Deputy Assistant Commissioner (DAC) Brian Paddick, in the press conference immediately following the massacre, stating: "The words Islamic and terrorist are not something I recognise as going together. There may be people who say they are Muslims involved in this sort of thing but it is totally against what I believe to be the Islamic faith. Any person who professes to be Islamic and who preaches terrorism is not truly a follower of Islam."

Had DAC Paddick, Britain's most senior gay police officer, typed into Google, the internet's leading search engine, the words "Islamic" and "terrorist", he would have come up with 4.010,000 entries with precisely this link as "going together". If he had done the same with Amazon's search engine, the internet's leading bookseller, he would have discovered 24 books available in the UK and 65 in the USA making this link, with 174 in the UK and 149 in the USA for "Islamic" and "terrorism".

We wonder if either of London's most senior police officers has even heard of the 9 September 2001 massacre of 2,986 people by Islamic fundamentalist terrorist group Al Qaeda, or the 12 October 2002 massacre in Bali of 202 young holidaymakers, and the 11 March 2004 massacre of 190 people in the Madrid train bombings, by yet other Islamic fundamentalist terrorist groups linked to Al Qaeda, or are they so driven by the overwhelming need to be politically correct that they ignore facts and deny evidence in order to blind themselves to the reality of the identity of the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity? Do either of these police chiefs themselves actually read print media, view televisual media or search the internet, the world's leading database for information, or, if not, who is briefing them so dangerously and ill advisedly, why , and to what purpose? Did either of them read, study, examine and deconstruct the contents of the Qu'ran, Hadiths (acts of Mohammad), Shariah (law), Fiqh (jurisprudence) and Fatwas (legal or religious opinions or rulings), prior to making their ill-informed pronouncements?

Prime Minister Tony Blair entirely contradicted DAC Paddick by stating in Parliament on 11 July 2005: "It seems probable the attack was carried out by Islamist extremist terrorists of the kind responsible for so many innocent deaths in Madrid, Bali, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco and of course in New York on September 11." Would DAC Paddick now accept this as "something I recognise as going together", and factor this in to his modus operandi in hunting down Islamic fundamentalist terrorists?

Unless we clearly name our enemies we will not recognise them, according to leading 'Arab News' writer Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, in his recent article ' A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims', (available to read on Arab News.com) where he writes: "It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. The hostage-takers of children in Beslan were Muslims. The other hostage-takers and subsequent murderers of the Nepalese chefs and workers in Iraq were also Muslims. Those involved in rape and murder in Sudan, are Muslims, with other Muslims chosen to be their victims. Osama bin Laden is a Muslim. The majority of those who manned the suicide bombings against buses, vehicles, schools, houses and buildings, all over the world, were Muslim."

"What a pathetic record. What an abominable 'achievement.' Does all this tell us anything about ourselves, our societies and our culture? These images, when put together or taken separately, are shameful and degrading. But let us start with putting an end to a history of denial. Let us acknowledge their reality, instead of denying them and seeking to justify them with sound and fury signifying nothing. For it would be easy to cure ourselves if we realise the seriousness of our sickness. Self-cure starts with self-realisation and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture."

Why is that those whose duty it is to protect all Britons - including law-abiding British Muslims, the vast majority - and whose ranks include Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, DAC Brian Paddick, many British politicians, media commentators and religious and community leaders, lack the intelligence, courage and clarity of journalists such as the aforementioned Abdel Rahman al-Rashed who, despite being Muslim himself, has no hesitation in describing the dangers posed by Islamist fundamentalist terrorists to society at large?

On BBC Radio 4's Today programme on 14 July 2005, Inayat Bunglawala, of the Muslim Council of Great Britain, claimed that "members of parliament" had been supportive of suicide bombers but, when pressed to name them, was forced to concede that he could name only former Richmond Park MP Dr Tonge. As Baroness Tonge she reaffirmed this support in Parliamentary Monitor published on 14 July 2005.

Equally as threatening to the safety and security of Britons, and Londoners in particular, is the extraordinary behaviour of London's Mayor, Ken Livingstone (pictured right) , who came under fire for welcoming as an "honoured guest" to a City Hall conference, on 12 July 2004, a Muslim cleric supportive of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, for which he is banned from entering America, and a cleric who is on record as demanding the execution of gays by Islamic regimes for the sin and crime of being gay, Sheikh Yusef al Qaradawi, who stated on BBC 2’s Newsnight broadcast prior to the conference, when questioned about suicide bombing: "I consider this type of martyrdom operation as an indication of the justice of Allah Almighty. Allah is just – through his infinite wisdom he has given the weak what the strong do not possess and that is the ability to turn their bodies into bombs like the Palestinians do. It's not suicide, it is martyrdom in the name of God, Islamic theologians and jurisprudents have debated this issue...It is allowed to jeopardise your soul and cross the path of the enemy and be killed."

Mayor Livingstone, who welcomed and hugged al Qaradawi even after his endorsement of suicide bombing a few days earlier, was unforgettably described by Simon Heffer in the Daily Mail on 8 July 2005 thus: "Mayor Livingstone...gave a fine theatrical performance to the world's media about the evils of terrorism. Was this the man who once so grandly invited the murderers Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness to London? And who, with cynical disregard to the feelings of Jews, has been gl ad to offer hospitality to rabid anti-semites and other extremists over the years? What does it say about our great capital city that it has such a silly, stinking hypocrite as its figurehead?"

Richard Littlejohn, writing in The Sun on 22 July 2005 accurately stated: "Livingstone is, was and will continue to be a seriously bad bastard" and America's most famous lawyer, Professor Alan Dershowitz, comments in The Guardian on 28 July 2005: "Livingstone's bigoted statements - essentially blaming Israel for the London bombings - only encourages Israel's enemies to engage in more terrorism".

Jonathan Freedland, writing in The Guardian on 27 July 2005, states: "Livingstone stands less as a healing figure than a divisive one, making a series of remarks that cast doubt on his own judgement and also invite a much larger question - about the relationship between British progressives and contemporary Islam...More importantly what is the Mayor doing talking like this? He must realise how incendiary it is to bring the Middle East conflict directly to these shores, pitting the 'young Jewish boy' against 'the young Muslim boy'. How reckless to encourage one community to see the other as would-be recruits for the bitter war of Israeli and Palestinian. 'They seek to turn Londoners against each other,' Livingstone said of the terrorists on July 7. Yet what was he doing last week?"

It is finally worth noting that the Newsnight broadcast by Sheikh Yusef al Qaradawi was on 7 July 2004, exactly one year to the day before the suicide bombings, described as "allowed" by him on British television, brought death and destruction to London on 7 July 2005.