Richard Teo expects Muslims to unanimously denounce terrorism perpetrated by some of their fellow Muslims without linking their actions as a response to British participation in the American invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and the killing of innocent civilians there.
Teo conveniently ignores the state terrorism of the US, Britain and other Western imperialist countries through which large number of helpless civilians are killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and previously in Vietnam.
It takes two hands to clap and acts of private terrorism won't exist without acts of state terrorism on the other.
These tit-for-tat acts of violence against innocent civilians - whether due to private or state- sponsored terrorism - will never end until the imperialist states get off the backs of the people and countries they're oppressing and stop attacking them.
The world must demand that the imperialist powers, Israel included, get out of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. This violence will then stop. Otherwise, what happened in London on July 7 will be just another milestone in the ongoing saga of private versus state-terrorism.
Strategically speaking, the Washington, Madrid, Bali, London attacks have resulted in greater support for the war against terror and this actually serves US, British and Zionist-imperialist interests better.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the London blasts were a false-flag operation perpetrated by the CIA, Mossad and British military intelligence (M15 and MI6) to bolster sagging support for Tony Blair and Britain's involvement in Iraq.
If Muslims feel strongly enough about it, they should go to Iraq or Iran and fight the imperialist military and politicians there as the brave Iraqi resistance fighters are doing right now.
They should draw lessons from the Vietnamese who fought a guerilla war and drove first the French and then the US imperialists out of Vietnam while winning the hearts and minds of the American people.
The Muslims should support the resistance forces in Iraq and Afghanistan while working with anti-war organisations in the US, Britain, etc to force their respective governments to withdraw from the war in these countries.
This is a slower but surer process to freedom and independence than acts of terrorism.