IT'S the sheer injustice that gets me. I mean some Muslims belonging to a north London mosque recently held a celebration of the September 11 atrocities.

They put up posters to advertise this macabre event and described it as "a towering day". There were speeches attacking America and Britain and praising Islamic suicide bombers. "So", you will be thinking, "the police turned up, arrested the leaders, charged them - under the specific terms of the MacPherson Report - with being responsible for a racist incident."

But the police did nothing of the sort. These radical Muslims were allowed to continue their vile "celebration" to its finish. Other British Muslims have been putting it about that the September 11 atrocities were the work of the Jews. They say that 4,000 Jews were warned in advance of the attacks and they stayed off work that day. This is not merely a blatant lie, it is utterly preposterous. Muslims worldwide are teaching their children to hate the Americans and the British. They have a slogan, "Kill all Jews and those who support them."

I do not mean to say that all Muslims are behaving in these outrageous ways; but it is undeniable that some are. The sheer injustice that I complained about at the top of this column is that when a British Christian such as myself mentions these uncomfortable facts, it is he who gets accused of racism. Why are the anti-racism laws such a one-way street?

Since the Bali bombing, the newspapers have printed many articles urging us all to avoid "a clash of civilisations". The phrase is inaccurate. The war presently being waged is of civilisation against barbarism. The perpetrators of the Bali atrocity have put themselves beyond the pale of civilised life. Unlike, say, the Basque terrorists in northern Spain or the IRA, these Islamic terrorists make no demands: they simply hate us and they want to kill us all.

A Muslim leader speaking recently from the Yemen said: "The next attack on America will be so severe that it will make them forget the first. And the attack after that will finish America altogether." These sorts of utterances are what made Mr Blair describe the war on the Islamic terrorists as similar to the war against the Nazis. He didn't go far enough: the Islamic terrorists are worse than the Nazis. Even Hitler's crowd of thugs, evil and genocidal as they were, had aims. They wanted world domination. The Islamic terrorists are simply nihilistic, suicidal fanatics.

Bleeding heart liberals in Britain and America go on peace marches and urge us to "tackle the root causes of terror" - by which they mean give lots of money to Muslim regimes. Wrong on both counts. Terrorists such as bin Laden are not impoverished Third World no-hopers, they have been given billions of dollars by corrupt regimes such as Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Tackling the root causes actually means we should be relentless in finding the terrorists and killing them.

* Peter Mullen is Rector of St Michael's, Cornhill, in the City of London, and Chaplain to the Stock Exchange.