Unless the UK stops inviting terrorists from all over the world, I stand by my comment. London is now home to the most radical of islamic clerics, terroists and murderers.
On LOndistan which is the name of a book I have studied parts of her book, skimmed read it, since I know the subject, it was easy to do.
The book is event based.
Because such and such event happened and because society is the way she perceives it to be then she joins up the dots.
She makes a number of points based on facts.
There was no Gentleman agreement between members of the UK government and Islamic terrorists you leave us alone we will leave you alone.
But there was note the word was a tradition of leaving groups alone that may have terrorist origins as long as they do not carry out any acts against us and we can use them.
A good history of this is the Russian Anarchists in 19th century Britain.
America has a similar view i.e in regards to American organistions that could be termed terrorists or freedom fighters, Cuba springs to mind.
During the 80s the Soviets Invaded Afghanistan, Ronald Reagan made the decision to support the mujahideen.
Britain under Margret Thatcher agreed to help support with our knowledge and links with that area.
London did indeed become a base of Operations for Islamic Jihad, against the Soviet Union, the CIA helped with training and logistics.
1990 the end of the Cold War, then Iraq invaded Kuwait, end of Gulf War start of the Balkans, quite a lot of resources were diverted to the Balkans getting up to speed understanding the locality a lot of work was involved, I should know I was one of those resources.
At home we were still fighting the IRA and other splinter groups, and the Animal Rights Front decided to start using terrorist activity to make there point.
The Islamic groups were not ignored through political correctness or self loathing it was plain and simple they fell through the cracks because we forgot about them, we had too much on our plates, Balkans, Africa, North Irland, Animal Right groups.
When President Bush was elected, the number one target was the Global Drug Trade, know many might be too young to of taken an interest in politics during the 80s and early 90s, but every one must remember the speeches on ramping up the Drug war.
Today things have changed.
We have passed a new bill, which includes a passage called the glorification of terrorism ban could lead to security services and special branches stepping up efforts to monitor Internet traffic so they can act against sites that carry inflammatory material. They are also likely to crack down on bookshops that disseminate terrorist publications.
In other words it is now against the law to preach, plan recruit for any activity that is considered terrorism even if we are not the target country.
We have detained over a 1000 suspects over 200 have been charged with a series of charges from minor to major.
This is a very potted history I have tried to give a broad outline I am more than happy to go into any aspect in more depth.