LONDON (AP) - A government official said Friday the country's Muslims must choose between "the British way" of peaceful political dialogue and the terrorism of groups such as al-Qaida - remarks that drew condemnation from Islamic organizations.

The comments by Foreign Office Minister Denis MacShane came a day after suicide bombers attacked the British consulate and a London-based bank in Istanbul, Turkey.

"It is time for the elected and community leaders of British Muslims to make a choice: it is the British way - based on political dialogue and nonviolent protests - or it is the way of the terrorists against which the whole democratic world is now uniting," MacShane said in a speech in his Rotherham constituency in northern England.

He said leaders of the Muslim community should be stronger in their condemnation of terrorism.

"I hope we will see clearer, stronger language that there is no future for any Muslim cause anywhere in the world that validates, or implicitly supports, the use of political violence in any way," MacShane said.

Inayat Bunglawala, a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain, said Muslims condemned terrorist attacks such as Thursday's suicide bombings in Istanbul, which killed more than two dozen people.

"We do not need lectures from a representative of a government that has conducted an unlawful war against Iraq," Bunglawala said.

"The attacks only emphasize that the disastrous war in Iraq has not reduced the risk of terrorism, as our own governments had us believe beforehand, but has exacerbated it," he added.

Anas Altikriti, director of communications for the Muslim Association of Britain, said the comments were "an outrage and extremely disgraceful.