The Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab case highlights the pusillanimity of those who should be confronting extremism A few months ago, I sat in a magnificent Victorian lecture hall at University College London. It was once one of finest centres of intellectual inquiry in Europe, thanks to the efforts of its founder, the sternly anti-clerical philosopher Jeremy Bentham. It did not take me long to realise t
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