Britain's New Export: Islamist Carnage

Britain's largest and longest-running terrorist investigation ended last month with the conviction of three British Muslims. Their 2006 plot involved blowing up trans-Atlantic airliners with the hope of killing up to 10,000 people. That near-disaster offers a pungent reminder of the global danger poised by U.K.-based radical Islam.

The Heritage Foundation calls British Islamism "a direct security threat" to the United States and The New Republic dubs it "the biggest threat to U.S. security." Officialdom agrees. The British home secretary compiled a dossier in 2003 that acknowledged his country offered a "significant base" for terrorism. A CIA study in 2009 concluded that British-born nationals of Pakistani descent (who can freely enter the United States under a visa waiver program) constitute America's most likely source of terrorism.

Confirming, updating, and documenting these reports, London's Centre for Social Cohesion, run by the formidable Douglas Murray, has just published a 535-page opus, Islamist Terrorism: The British Connections, written by Robin Simcox, Hannah Stuart, and Houriya Ahmed. It consists mainly of detailed biographical information on two sorts of perpetrators of what it calls "Islamism related offences" or IROs – that is to say, incidents where evidence points to Islamist beliefs as the primary motivator.

One listing contains information on the 127 individuals convicted of IROs or suicides in IROs within Britain; the other provides biographies on 88 individuals with connections to Britain who engaged in IROs elsewhere in the world. The study covers eleven years 1999-2009.

Domestic British terrorists display a dismaying pattern of normality. They are predominantly young (mean age: 26) and male (96 percent). Nearly half come from a South Asian background. Of those whose educational backgrounds are known, most attended university. Of those whose occupations are known, most have jobs or study full time. Two-thirds of them are British nationals, two-thirds have no links to proscribed terrorist organizations, and two-thirds never went abroad to attend terrorist training camps.

Most IROs, in brief, are perpetrated by basically ordinary Muslims whose minds have been seized by the coherent and powerful ideology of Islamism. One wishes the terrorist's numbers were limited to psychopaths, for that would render the problem less difficult to confront and eliminate.

Britain's Security Service estimates that over 2,000 individuals residing today in Britain pose a terrorist threat, thereby implying not only that the "covenant of security" that once partially protected the U.K. from attack by its own Muslims is long defunct but that the United Kingdom may face the worst internal terrorist menace of any Western country other than Israel.

As for the second group – Islamists with ties to Great Britain who engage in attacks outside the country: the report's authors modestly state that because their information constitutes a sampling, and not a comprehensive list, they do not provide statistical analyses. But their sample indicates the phenomenon's reach, so I compiled a list of countries (and the number of British-linked perpetrators) in which British-linked IROs have occurred.

The centre's list includes Afghanistan (12), Algeria (3), Australia (1), Azerbaijan (1), Belgium (2), Bosnia (4), Canada (1), France (7), Germany (3), India (3), Iraq (3), Israel (2), Italy (4), Jordan (1), Lebanon (1), Morocco (2), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (5), Russia (4), Saudi Arabia (1), Somalia (1), Spain (2), the United States (14), and Yemen (10). I add to the centre's list Albania, where an attack took place before 1999, and Bangladesh and Kenya, which seem to have been overlooked.

In all, 28 countries have come under assault from British-based Islamist terrorists, giving some idea of their global menace. Other than India, the target countries divide into two distinct types, Western and majority-Muslim. An odd trio of the United States, Afghanistan, and Yemen have suffered the most British-linked terrorists.

This documentation prompts several questions: One, how much longer will it take for the British authorities to realize that their current policies – trying to improve Muslims' material circumstances while appeasing Islamists – misses the ideological imperative? Two, evidence thus far tends to point to IROs on balance strengthening the Islamist cause in Great Britain; will this remain the pattern even as violence persists or will IROs eventually incur a backlash?

Finally, what will it take in terms of destruction for non-U.K. governments to focus their immigration procedures on that percentage or two of Britons from whom the perpetrators exclusively derive – the Muslim population? Unpleasant as this prospect is, it beats getting blown up.

The two British suicide bombers

I hate this designation.

Let's all face facts: these really are not "British" suicide (homicide) bombers. They are British citizens, or British born, but they are Arab.

They are.

No matter how many times someone tries to convince me their names are "Nigel Richard Longstreet III" and "Miles Peter Shakespeare."

They are Abdul-Ghaffar Talib Muhammad and Sayid Wajih Muhammad Zakwan.

And that's it.

We're now linked straight to the most violent part of the muslim world.

This pains me to read this kind of thing about my native country. I do not like violence against citizens as happened in Nazi Germany of course. Yet one could hope for a temporary throw back to the war years and a good old fashioned "bunch of fives" for these addled psychopaths.

I read of a policeman, threatening a citizen who had observed muslims crying for the death of Salman Rushdie. The man told the officer, that Englishmen were being charged for much less and he should charge a shouter of death threats. Theodore Dalrymple recounts how his friend was told to "Eff off, or I will arrest YOU. This by the guardian of the law.

This Daniel Pipes who is the author, is the gold, may he keep on coming.
PS -welcome to the club.

“Theodore Dalrymple recounts how his friend was told to “Eff off, or I will arrest YOU. This by the guardian of the law.”

Sounds like this filthy “policeman”, this scumbag traitor quisling BASTARD, should be filled with holes...along with all the bastard Muslims shouting for the death of Salman Rushdie.

Yes indeed.

Instance after instance of the once respected "Bobby" being forced to go against every tenet of the late Sir Robert Peel. Sensitivity training so as to know how to deal with the vagaries of the Islamic faith. Running dead scared for their jobs, then dumping on the prolatariat to vent their inadequacy. George Orwell's old crowd, of whom he wrote in his 1984. "The only hope is with the proles".

Only a Gilbert and Sullivan light opera could deal in a mocking fashion with all this folly. To roughly quote:

When the criminal is not engaged in his employment he is just the same as any other man.....
He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling, he loves to hear the merry village chimes.....After one thing and another- another, A policeman's lot is not a happy one- happy one.

One wonders how these worthies deal with their own guilt when they go home and quaff a pint or two. To bad there is much less of the old fashioned pride and patriotism left in much of English society.

I thought I would follow up on my allegation about the British police. I learn from "Jihad Watch" that seventy Islamic protesters were observed throwing shoes during a demonstration. Following a test case on one of these men, the judge begged off and found it was a "ritual" not a violent act.

How was he able to do this? The Metropolitan Police had issued a directive to this effect. Simply that to throw shoes is a mere ritual. I could put on a posh accent which I am not entitled to- vis:

They have gone absolutely stark, staring, raving mad!

I feel a little better now.

I learn from "Jihad Watch" that seventy Islamic protesters were observed throwing shoes during a demonstration.

"Who throws a shoe? Honestly! You fight like a woman!"

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