Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett is to call on mainstream Muslims to “stand up and be counted” in the struggle against terrorism. The UK’s 1.6 million Muslims have a “special ability” to counter extremist propaganda about a “clash of civilisations” between Islam and the West, she will say.

Press Association, 9 November 2006

Their job would be made rather easier if Beckett was prepared to “stand up and be counted” in condemning US and Israeli state terrorism.

See also BBC News, 9 November 2006