Britain 'A Soft Touch For Home Grown Terrorists'

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-15-2008 | Robert Winnett

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Britain 'a soft touch for home grown terrorists'

By Robert Winnett Deputy Political Editor
Last Updated: 3:07am GMT 15/02/2008

Britain has become a "soft touch" for home grown terrorists because ministers have failed to tackle immigrant communities that refuse to integrate, warns a report released today.

The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a body of the country's leading military and diplomatic figures, says the loss of British values and national identity caused by "flabby and bogus" Government thinking has made the country vulnerable to attack from Islamic extremists.

MI5 estimates that there are currently about 2,000 active terror supporters in Britain

"Misplaced" policies on multiculturalism have failed to "lay down the line" to immigrants, leading to a fragmented society opposed by "implacable" terrorist enemies, the report says.

The stark warning - which comes just days after the Archbishop of Canterbury was plunged into a row over the adoption of sharia, or Islamic law, in Britain - will embarrass the Government.

RUSI, whose patron is the Queen, is one of the most respected and long-established defence research organisations in the world.

Gordon Brown, who is due to unveil his national security policy next week, has described the think-tank as "leading the debate about homeland security and global terrorism".

Its analysis represents the views of senior defence experts including Lord Inge, the former chief of the defence staff, Vice Adml Sir Jeremy Blackham, Gen Sir Rupert Smith and Baroness Park, a former senior officer with MI6.

It was written by the Marquess of Salisbury and Professor Gwyn Prins of the London School of Economics.

[Ron in Acreage]

It was nice while it lasted.
What will it be named?
Europistan?
Britistan?
Liberalstan would be perfect.

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One of the reports authors printed commentary...

Bare-bones defence can’t fight uncertain threat

By Gwyn Prins

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/15/ndefence315.xml

“But the Law is often compounded by the fragmented and divided nature of the realm today. Loss of confidence in our own identity, values, constitution and institutions is one of the main facts that have precipitated risks into threats.

That fragmentation is worsened by the firm self-image of those elements within society who refuse to integrate. This is a problem worsened by the lack of leadership from the majority which in misplaced deference to “multi-culturalism” failed to lay down the line to immigrant communities, thus under-cutting those within them trying to fight extremism. “

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