For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: another hero of the pantybomber saga.
Surely, the most important, interesting - and, yes, heroic - figure in the whole Christmas Day Northwest airliner affair was the would-be bomber's father, the Nigerian banker Alhaji Umaru Mutallab.
Mutallab did something that, as far as we know, no other parent of a suicide bomber has done: He went to the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria and warned us that text messages from his son revealed that he was in Yemen and had become a fervent, and possibly dangerous, radical.
Now how do we go about convincing more moderate Muslim parents to do the same?
