Posted on 10/08/2018 3:26:42 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Jihadist terrorism until recently had Europe on the defensive. Now the continent is getting tough and fighting the threat with measures that would have been unthinkable six or seven years ago.
The old notion that Europe is weak on terrorism gained traction in the mid-2010s. Between 2015 and 2017, some 350 people were killed by jihadists across Europe. Terrorism rose to the top of polls of public concerns, and criticism of European counterterrorism capabilities grew explicit. A PBS “Frontline” investigation into the 2016 Brussels attacks revealed “a scale of dysfunction remarkable in the annals of modern counterterrorism.” Many wondered if Europe was up to the task of defending itself.
But the continent stepped up in a way that many observers, including me, didn’t foresee. European countries poured money into counterterrorism and improved intelligence sharing. They also initiated a qualitative overhaul involving radical new measures that had previously been considered politically off-limits.
Preventing citizens from going off to places like Syria to fight was once considered legally difficult. Many European law-enforcement agencies now prosecute anyone merely planning to go abroad to join a jihadist group. Jihadist recruitment organizations proliferated in Northern Europe until the early 2010s because authorities struggled to pin them to crimes. Around 2013, however, governments started cracking down. Firebrand clerics also found themselves treated more severely. Britain extradited the London-based sheikh Abu Qatada to Jordan in 2013 and shipped the hard-line Finsbury Park Mosque Imam Abu Hamza to the U.S., where he was sentenced to life in prison in 2015.
Censorship of extremist internet material, once seen as both unfeasible and authoritarian, is now common and has significantly reduced the availability of jihadist propaganda. A new European Union law imposes fines on internet companies that fail to remove extremist material within 60 minutes.
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Several European countries have recently elected anti-“immigrant” government leaders so there’s definitely a popular rebellion going on against the policy of voluntarily filling up their countries with hostile young Muslims.
thats because although some in Europe have grown a pair, nost have still los their minds.
A self-manufactured excuse to start a police state.
I’m glad European law enforcement has become more effective in stopping jihadists, but the article does not mention limiting Muslim immigration, which is the surest way of reducing Muslim terrorism in the long run.
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Agreed. Compare the terrorist attacks in Poland to the rest of Europe.
This article is nothing but spin.
The EU isn’t going after jihadists.
It’s going after DISSENT.
Articles 11 and 13, the meme ban and link tax, are NOT aimed at stopping Islamism.
Bingo.
I tend to agree.
Step 2: kick out all illegals
Step 3: insure your heritage/history is taught in all schools
"In 1994 a new 5-storey mosque building was officially opened in a ceremony attended by Prince Charles and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia who had contributed funds for the building."
>>I’m glad European law enforcement has become more effective in stopping jihadists, but the article does not mention limiting Muslim immigration, which is the surest way of reducing Muslim terrorism in the long run.<<
Why attack from outside when you can be invited in? That has been the successful jihad since/including 9/11.
“A self-manufactured excuse to start a police state”
“Nothing happens in politics without a reason” - FDR
I reckon the “Give Peace a Chance” song/approach didn’t work out well...
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Step 1: enforce your borders
Step 2: kick out all illegals
Step 3: insure your heritage/history is taught in all schools
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Outside the USA (for the moment, at least) you can be jailed for such talk.
From now on they will ask each immigrant point blank “Are you a terrorist?”. If they say yes, they won’t be allowed into Europe.
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