Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Licentiousness breeds extremism

On blogs now thought to be written by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a plane over Detroit, you are given the impression from news reports that he was a lonely boy, unhappy with his peers who drank and partied. At university he apparently cut himself off, tried to hold on to Islamic Puritanism in a country of no shame, no restraint...

For Umar Farouk and many other Muslim men like him, living in such a landscape is literally intolerable. He confesses that he does try to lower his gaze in front of females, wonders if he should get married because he is getting too aroused. You could make a movie, a Taxi Driver for our times, about just such an anti-hero, the hormonal male who is expected to live a life of total abstinence in the middle of licentiousness.

Islamic Stalinism is set to grow stronger. A society in a state of perpetual abandon cannot survive that onslaught. We need to sober up and see what we have become. The future is grim; it needs us to be serious.

Shorter Alibhai-Brown Showing your tits breeds plane bombers. Dope!

In an alarmingly short time, the nation has gone from Fifties uprightness to public striptease

She still lived in Uganda in the Sixties so perhaps she needs reminding:



And if the sight of female flesh is really that intolerable to these young Muslim men there are plenty of places they can go and live where it isn't a problem: