London has long been home to many radical Islamic groups and preachers, so much so that it is often called 'Londonistan.' Sir John Stevens, former head of Scotland Yard, has estimated that up to 200 militants trained in Afghanistan's jihadist camps may live in England.
Rita Katz, director of the terrorism-monitoring SITE Institute, says London has 'a lot of jihadis, more than any other city in the Western world.'
'In London,' she says, 'what you have are the four factors of terrorism: recruitment, planning, financing and execution.'
If this is true, then democracy appears to be conducive to terrorism. Britain is also a wealthy, free-market economy.
As one counter-example disproves an erroneous universal claim, the London bombing explodes both George Bush's "Democracy" strategy for countering terrorism, along with his liberal critics' "Economic Development" strategy, which blames poverty.
Left standing is Daniel Pipes' political and ideological explanation--a theoretical approach shared by the Russians, Israelis, Indians and Chinese, among others...
