Posted on 04/28/2011 2:56:12 PM PDT by knighthawk
A former Labour minister admitted today that political correctness had led Britain to offer shelter to violent extremists.
Kim Howells, a former Foreign Office minister, said Tony Blair's government and other administrations had been afraid to criticise the conduct of radical preachers and others because they feared being accused of racism.
He said the policy had been pursued even though there was plenty of intelligence about the "evil" intent of such extremists and that it was only reversed after the 7/7 bombings. Mr Howells also said that he had been unable to find a single imam willing to say publicly that suicide bombers would go to hell. He further criticised a reluctance in Muslim communities to condemn the "murderous actions" of terrorists.
His comments came as a leaked diplomatic cable, published today by WikiLeaks, revealed Britain had been warned years before the London bombings to stop giving asylum to "very dangerous" terrorists.
The cable, sent by a former military attaché to the Algerian embassy in Washington on July 12 2005, told US diplomats that Britain had allowed extremists to raise money for terrorist causes.
"Did the English consider the risks of allowing Londonistan to develop?" the cable states. "The British thought that sheltering terrorists was a good solution, but they did not realise that one can never align oneself with the devil, and they did precisely that for years and years."
In a BBC interview today, Mr Howells admitted that the criticism was justified.
Ping
It causes more destruction and more stupid policy than probably any other form of demagoguery.
Nice. I’d say their government was run by twits, but look at ours now.
Bull!
The reason was only political correctness to a minor degree.
The main reason is that y'all are liberals. There's NOTHING, EVER that any non-liberal could ever tell you. How many HUDREDS, and THOUSANDS, and TENS OF THOUSANDS, and HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, and MILLIONS of people kept telling you low-grade morons for YEARS and DECADES that these were evil people, but NOOOOOOOOOOO, YOU KNEW better! You all ALWAYS know better.
People have been telling Britain and the British govt for decades that the influx of foreigners and especially muslims were going to be the death of britain and british citizens, but noooooooooo, they weren't think-alike-bot liberals so their information was discounted to about 1/1000th of what it was worth in the liberals minds.
So now, let's ask ourselves the next logical step in the sequence: If political correctness led the Labor British govt down this avenue of error, what else has that same Labor govt done that was wrong in the name of Political Correctness/Multiculturalism???
NHS leaps to mind.
Thanks for the ping.
PC is going to kill the western world. I think Great Britain is lost. I hope we in the USA come to our senses soon, or else all will be lost.
It’s so good to “see” you! ;o)
Good to see you people too. I finished moving have now more time I hope.
You’ve moved? Where?
Here?
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