June 06, 2006

Come to Londonistan, our refuge for poor misunderstood Islamist victims

Melanie Phillips

ACCORDING TO REMARKS attributed in the past few days to security
sources, no fewer than 1,200 Islamist terrorists are biding their time
within British suburbs. Yet does Britain even now fully understand the
nature of the threat it is facing, let alone have the will to deal
with it?

The recent report by the Commons Intelligence Committee on last July's
London bombings barely scratched the surface of the failure by the
security establishment. It failed to note, for example, BritainAEs
dirty little secret: that from the 1990s, Islamist radicals had been
given free rein in Britain in a "gentlemen's agreement" that if they
were left alone, they would not turn on the country that was so
generously nurturing them. The result was "Londonistan", as Britain
became the hub of al-Qaeda in Europe.

This intelligence debacle, however, was only the tip of the iceberg.
Among Britain's governing class - its intelligentsia, its media, its
politicians, its judiciary, its Church and even its police - a broader
and deeper cultural pathology persists to this day. Londonistan is
more than the physical presence of Islamist extremists. It is also a
state of mind. To a dismaying extent, the British have signed up to
the false narrative of those who are laying siege to their society.

The problem lies in a refusal to acknowledge that Islamist extremism
is rooted in religion. Instead, ministers and security officials
prefer to think of it as a protest movement against grievances such 
as Iraq or Palestine, or "Islamophobia". They simply ignore the
statements and signs that show unequivocally that the aim is to
Islamicise the West.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2212130,00.html

The goal of Islam is a global Caliphate under Sharia law; terrorism
is simply a means of achieving that goal, but it will fail.

Cheers, Steve..

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