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Detroit terror attack: British university 'complicit' in radicalisation
Telegraph ^ | 7:17PM GMT 29 Dec 2009 | Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter

Posted on 12/29/2009 12:05:10 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

The London university where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab studied has been accused of being “complicit” in the radicalisation of Muslim students.

University College London, where Abdulmutallab was recently president of the Islamic Society, has been criticised for “failing grotesquely” to prevent extremists from giving lectures on campus.

UCL has been heavily criticised in the past for its relaxed attitude to radical preachers, and security agencies are investigating whether it was there that Detroit bomber Abdulmutallab was recruited by al-Qaeda sympathisers.

As recently as last month, Abu Usama, who teaches that homosexuals and apostates should be killed, was due to speak at UCL until the university finally bowed to pressure and cancelled the event.

In 2007, when Abdulmutallab was still a student at UCL, the Islamic Society held a five-day series of lectures and seminars about the War on Terror which have been criticised as anti-Western propaganda. The lectures were advertised with a special five-minute video on YouTube.

Anthony Glees, professor of security and intelligence studies at the University of Buckingham, said UCL had no excuse for failing to root out extremism on campus.

He said: “I believe Abdulmutallab’s radicalisation from being a devoted Muslim to a suicide bomber took place in the UK and I believe al-Qaeda recruited him in London. Universities and colleges like UCL have got to realise that you don’t get suicide bombers unless they have first been radicalised.

“UCL boasts on its website that it has 8,000 staff for 22,000 students, which is an enviable staff/student ratio. What have they been doing?

“All British universities must look at their Islamic Societies and demand assurances that no radicalisation will be allowed. If they can’t give those assurances, they should be disbanded.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; islam; londonschools; yemen
UCL has confirmed that Abdulmutallab was president of its Islamic Society from 2006-07, but has insisted he “never gave his tutors any cause for concern”.

Well...no reason at all????

1 posted on 12/29/2009 12:05:12 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; Marine_Uncle; Fred Nerks; blam; SunkenCiv; tubebender; ...
What does the phrase

"radicalisation"

mean?

2 posted on 12/29/2009 12:09:13 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Taking it to the next level ? (Virgin eligible) :-)


3 posted on 12/29/2009 12:15:10 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

In US it’s the Muslim Student Association

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6175


4 posted on 12/29/2009 12:15:23 PM PST by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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To: NormsRevenge

(Virgin eligible)....LOL!


5 posted on 12/29/2009 12:21:38 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

As recently as last month, Abu Usama, who teaches that homosexuals and apostates should be killed....


You know that if it was a Christian fundamentalist minister spewing this, the UK PC brigades would be all over it.


6 posted on 12/29/2009 12:25:13 PM PST by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

It’s a matter of PC again and fear of upsetting Muslims.


7 posted on 12/29/2009 12:53:15 PM PST by onyx
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To: onyx

“It’s a matter of PC again and fear of upsetting Muslims.”

What happens if a bunch of homosexuals and apostates get together and start preaching about how homophobic muslims are and they should be killed. Turn the tables. It might be fun to watch!


8 posted on 12/29/2009 1:32:54 PM PST by Bluebeard16
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To: Bluebeard16

That’s precisely what’s needed, but we both know it’ll never happen.


9 posted on 12/29/2009 1:41:29 PM PST by onyx
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To: onyx; Bluebeard16

See the book “Unholy Alliance” by Dave Horowitz as to why it will not happen in the USA.


10 posted on 12/29/2009 2:48:43 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Become totally absorbed by a given ideology and refuse to allow any counter idea to enter a thought process. Or perhaps a better description. Become a total asshole.


11 posted on 12/29/2009 5:46:43 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....)
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Thanks Ernest.


12 posted on 12/30/2009 8:18:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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13 posted on 12/30/2009 9:00:40 PM PST by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
UCL has confirmed that Abdulmutallab was president of its Islamic Society from 2006-07, but has insisted he “never gave his tutors any cause for concern”.

Which would concern his tutors, that he might blow up a plane or that he might not?

14 posted on 12/30/2009 9:08:11 PM PST by magslinger (Cry MALAISE! and let slip the dogs of incompetence.)
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