Jihadist indoctrination at universities in the U.K. is nothing new. If anything, al-Shabaab is late to the party, though clearly eager to catch up. "UK students recruited for Somali jihad," by Richard Kerbaj for the Sunday Times, January 24:
Students from some of Britain's top universities are travelling to Somalia to fight with a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda.
Almost a dozen young British Muslims, including a female medical researcher, are said recently to have joined Al-Shabaab, an extremist rebel organisation blamed for hundreds of deaths in the east African state.
Somali community leaders in the UK say students from the London School of Economics (LSE), Imperial College and King's College London are among those who have been recruited within the past year. The youngest recruit is believed to be 18.
One LSE graduate who grew up in Britain is said to have called his pregnant wife from Mogadishu, the Somali capital, telling her: "I am here defending my country and my rights. Look after my daughter. I don't think I will see you again."
An investigation by The Sunday Times into the terrorist "pipeline" to Somalia substantiates claims that Britain has become a fertile breeding ground for Al-Qaeda.
It follows the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the London engineering graduate accused of trying to blow up almost 300 passengers on a transatlantic flight on Christmas Day.
The security services believe that Britons travelling overseas to train and fight in lawless countries such as Somalia and Yemen pose a serious risk on their return to the UK.
They have previously suggested that at least two dozen Britons have gone out to Somalia to take up arms and even become suicide bombers, but community leaders believe the figure could be more than 100.
Al-Shabaab -- Arabic for "the Youth" -- wants to impose sharia across Somalia and is engaged in a violent struggle against the country's western-backed government. Experts regard it as an African franchise of Al-Qaeda.
It has been proscribed by most western countries, including America and Australia, but has escaped a ban in Britain.
Sheikh Mohamed Ahmed, a moderate religious leader from north London, warned this weekend that Al-Shabaab is exploiting the loophole to recruit youths in the capital. Although many of them were born in Somalia, they have grown up in the UK and are British citizens.
"It's unbelievable," said Ahmed. "The group's supporters and recruiters are free to do what they want."
Ahmed said some families had received anonymous phone calls from Al-Shabaab recruiters urging them to send their children abroad in the name of Islam. "The police said they cannot take action until they [the recruits] do something," he said....
They have previously suggested that at least two dozen Britons have gone out to Somalia to take up arms and even become suicide bombers, but community leaders believe the figure could be more than 100.
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In what substantive way are these Somalian Jihadists to be considered "Britons"? As though the holding of a British passport—used to wing their way back to Dar-al-Islam—makes one in any true sense "a Briton".
One. Way. Ticket.
If dhimmi British home Secretary (and ex[?]-Communist) Alan Johnson can move to revoke Abu Hamza's passport, then why can't he do the same for these ingrates? Leave 'em in Mogadishu.
This is the natural outcome of clashing moral/cultural systems.
And this is why it is so critically important that this be recognized as a war and not policed and adjucated as a civil/criminal matter.
Certainly Christendom has its criminals. But Christendom's laws are set up to catch and punish Christendom's criminals, which operate within and as an outgrowth (although a defective outgrowth) of the western cultural atmosphere.
There aren't any laws about making creepy phone calls outside the context of harassment or extortion or perhaps sexual weirdness. We don't have a law against recruiting for enemy armies in the civil criminal code!!!
We do have wartime/military measures that are appropriate though.
Treason charges, actions against enemy agents etc...
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This is all brainless crap.
And all for the sake of allowing some of our governing elite to rub elbows with the brainless, lacktalent, Beverly Hillbilly, ape-in-Armani oil gazillionaires.
It's criminally stupid and deeply embarrassing.
How long are we going to let those idiots in the national offices of DC and London and Paris go on running our countries into the ground?
They aren't looking out for us, and if we don't take responsibility and act appropriately there will be nobody to blame but ourselves for what will inevitably follow.
It was a high-standing member of Al-Shabaab that assaulted Kurt Westergaard January 1st.
Any outstanding reason not to ban this wicked org?
The UK Labour government has had a 'policy' of mass immigration since 1997, with the larger numbers coming from Islamic areas such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, Afghanistan.
So ignorantly dhimmi is this Government that Britain has a serious problem now of Islamic jihad, nurtured in, e.g., its universities. And the deep-seated security problem (for the British people and beyond) of Labour's lax 'system' of foreign student visas continues.
Stop any government grant to universities who harbour these idiots immediately. Stop further immigration, legal, illegal, asylum seekers and foreign (Muslim) students coming into the country immediately. Realise that there is no such thing as moderate religious leaders - it's a complete misnomer. They want to appear moderate in order to propagate their hate and filth unimpeded inside their mosques, where of course no infidel is ever allowed. But THEY DO NOT exist.
After the attrocities of 7/7 I suggested (to a few select friends of a similar persuasion)that they (the Muslims) should all be repatriated. Naturally, in the wild "all Muslim are wonderful days", this was unthinkable. Well not any more. Send them all back. One million, two, three, who cares? Immigrants, born here, came here for arranged marriages (especially those), "students" who settle here - return the whole lot of them. They are not and never will be British. Their children and grand children grow up to hate us and want to destroy us. Oh, and while we are at it let's despatch the vast amount of stupid Brits who have converted to this despicable religion to live among them in the desert or wherever they skulk. With no possibility to return.
This has to stop now!
"The police said they cannot take action until they [the recruits] do something," he said...."
Lovely stuff, until they blow lots of people up or otherwise cause mayhem. Can I suggest that if these people are traceable, that we take away thier British Citizenship and if they somehow make it to GB that they are sent back to thier Muslim paradise when they arrive get the SAS to assinate the buggers (or pay another muslim to do it). Otherwise, just Jail them for life.
You know when a country has failed it's citizens security concerns when it's Defence Secretary walks PAST the door of the Prime Minister.
Britain's Bob Ainsworth has just achieved this, undaunted he turned back and knocked on the door of No 10, presumably to enquire if a Mr.Brown was in and maybe had time for a chat.
And you wonder why certain Universities are out of control ?
Hope none of them get to return alive.
Hope none of them get to return alive.
What suprises me is that Somalis are in institutions such as LSE, Imperial and University College.
There can be two possible explanations
1. Standards are way way down.
2. Somalis have been admitted as part of positive affirmation policies, backed by financial blackmail from this Labour government.