Posted on 04/27/2011 3:26:29 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Islamic fundamentalism is being allowed to flourish at universities, endangering national security, MPs and peers say.
Academics are turning a blind eye to radicals because they do not want to spy on students, a report claimed.
Despite "damning evidence" of a serious problem, little progress had been made in tackling the unsustainable situation, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homeland Security said.
They urged the Government to tackle the issue on campuses with "utmost urgency".
Such extremism "endangers our security at home and has international implications that are serious enough to threaten our alliance relationships", said the group, which includes the former home secretary Lord Reid.
Secret files obtained by The Daily Telegraph and WikiLeaks disclosed this week that at least 35 terrorists held at Guantánamo Bay were indoctrinated by extremists in Britain.
The leaked documents, written by senior US military commanders, illustrated how Britain effectively became a crucible of terrorism over the course of two decades.
The parliamentary group was set up two years ago to carry out research into homeland security issues.
Its inaugural report comes after a separate inquiry by the umbrella organisation for universities earlier this year said animal rights extremists posed a greater problem than Islamist radicals.
Universities UK, which represents vice-chancellors, said it could do very little about extremism on campus. Instead it issued new guidance on the importance of freedom of speech. Their report followed the attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a former student at University College London, to blow himself up using a bomb in his underpants as a flight came in to land at Detroit on Christmas Day, 2009.
Abdulmutallab, an engineering student, was the Islamic Society president
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And you really have no one to blame except yourselves. In your quest to “celebrate diversity!” you have lain down with the muslim dogs. You have no right whatsoever to complain when you get up with their fleas.
Maybe someone over there will get some Sarkozy sized cajones........................maybe................
Maybe someone over there will get some Sarkozy sized cajones........................maybe................
Sorry about that doubleheader!
Islamofascists in college. The sweet part is that you and I are paying for it.
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