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Last Thursday\u2019s horrific attack<\/a> against London\u2019s public transport systems marked a day of reckoning among Britain\u2019s 1.6 million Muslims, who have been grappling in recent years with rising alienation and extremism<\/a> among a small minority of younger adherents. <\/p>\n

Though details on the bombers origins have yet to be determined, several mosques in Britain were subject to arson attacks<\/a> or broken windows (a Sikh temple was included, as usual). But a pleasant surprise for Muslims was steadfast support from authorities (at a press conference, one police representative scolded a journalist for using \u201cIslamic\u201d and \u201cterrorist\u201d together) and support from the British public. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe police have so far been extremely responsible, so has the home secretary,\u201d said Massoud Shadjareh, of the Islamic Human Rights Commission. \u201cI surprise myself saying it.\u201d Additionally, the Muslim Council of Britain found a 4 to 1<\/a> sympathetic e-mail response after an initial 30,000 hate e-mails were received (and it was later found that all 30,000 came from the same server). <\/p>\n

Also, the diverse<\/a> group of victims included one Shahara Akther Islam, a 20-year old Bangladeshi girl from the East End that has become a symbol<\/a> of the Muslim community\u2019s grief. At the East London Mosque near Brick Lane, Islam\u2019s father prayed<\/a> for victim\u2019s families while mosque officials hosted victims stranded in Central London. <\/p>\n

So far, the only well known claim of responsibility comes from a shadowy group\u2019s posting to a US-hosted<\/a> website run by a London based Saudi dissident, leaving open the question of the involvement of native British Muslims. Former London Chief of Police Lord Stevens went further and said British Muslims were \u201calmost certainly<\/a>\u201d responsible (investigators insist it\u2019s still an open<\/a> question). <\/p>\n

Other analysts have pointed out contradictions<\/a> in previous condemnations by Muslims of terrorist activity. This time, many Muslims have realised that the oft-worn cloak of \u201cwe condemn, but\u201d reactions was getting threadbare (though East End MP George Galloway used it to full effect<\/a>). The imam of London\u2019s Finsbury Park Mosque<\/a> (recently reformed<\/a> by moderates) called for finding the bombers and assisting police as an Islamic imperative. <\/p>\n

Also notable was an effort not to overshadow a solidarity in outrage with other Britons with a defensive concern against reprisals against Muslims, along with finding strategies for dealing with politically charged youth. \u201cThere needs to be a separation between those who are committing those atrocities and those who are passionate about injustice,\u201d says Shadjareh. \u201cWe need to encourage that passion and give them avenues within the civil society to deal with injustices.\u201d <\/p>\n

But for now, the immediate reaction will include the results of an emergency meeting of 100 of the country\u2019s top Muslim leaders at the East London Mosque: fatwas<\/a> against the terrorists. \u201cThose behind this atrocity aren\u2019t just enemies of humanity but enemies of Islam and Muslims\u201d said Sir Iqbal Sacranie, general secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain. \u201cThe people at the receiving end of this, both as some of the victims of the bombing and victims of the backlash, are Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Zahed Amanullah is associate editor of altmuslim.com. He is based in London, England.\n<\/p>\n

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