“Since the bombings, many of the leading voices of British society have given the impression that they are less concerned about the atrocity that claimed the lives of more than 52 innocent people than the need to protect the Muslim community from any backlash…. The impression has been sedulously created that this act of Islamic terrorism by four Muslim boys from Leeds had nothing to do with the Muslim community or indeed Islam.” So Melanie Phillips argues.
Phillips goes on to offer a stern lecture to Muslims: “above all, the responsible Muslim community and its leaders – who are the majority – must come out of denial and unequivocally condemn the extreme interpretation of Islam that is twisting the minds of the minority of zealots in its midst”.
Presumably Phillips wrote this on an isolated mountaintop without access to the media.