Majority of Muslims are decent and law abiding. PM

The evil people who planned and carried out this series of explosions want to demoralize us as a nation and divide us as a people," said Sir Iqbal Sacranie, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday, "We know that these people act in the name of Islam, but we also know that the vast and overwhelming majority of Muslims, here and abroad, are decent and law-abiding people who abhor this act of terrorism every bit as much as we do."