They don't like it up 'em.

Dad's Army's Cpl Jones had a way of describing fundamental but unpalateable truths that conveyed succinct meaning.

Our own dearly beloved Home Secretary tried the same thing on a selected sample of the Moslem 'community' in London, yesterday. He had the temerity to suggest that if the 'community' paid more attention to the ways they were raising their children, they would be doing the 'wider community' a service by detecting and disarming earlier, signs of terrorist inclinations.

To judge only by the howls of recriminatory indignation that followed his speech, one could be led to believe that young Moslems had no part in the London bombings, the shoe-bomber was not a Moslem, and those currently charged with terrorist planning were merely victims of mistaken identity.

At a time when the 'wider community' is clearly failing to discipline its own family members (probably because a succession of hearts-on-sleeve do-gooder governments have made it illegal to apply corrective pain upon transgressors) and cure the prevailing disinterest in overcoming spiralling lawlessness, to see the Moslem 'community' so determinedly in denial is but one more example of the rottenness that pervades our society.

National Service was recognised as an excellent way to instil discipline into the recalcitrant and law-abiding alike. Perhaps it should be reintroduced and the newly-tamed sent to bring order to Afghanistan and Iraq? Killing two birds with one stone?