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Returning jihadis from Syria now biggest threat to UK’s security

Apr 10, 2014 6:50 pm By Robert Spencer

Syria-2_2741318b“As many as 500 Britons have headed to Syria to fight in the past three years – far higher than the numbers who travelled to Iraq. The police and security services are understood to be monitoring around half of that number who have returned.” Why aren’t they monitoring the rest? And why were these men let back into the country in the first place? Simply because they’re citizens? (Are they even all citizens?) The British government has no compunction about banning counter-jihadists such as Pamela Geller and me from entering the country — why can’t it find some way to keep these jihadis out? Or would doing that be “Islamophobic” and enrage the Islamic supremacist groups before whom the government of Spineless Britannia cowers in abject fear and submission?

“Syria is now the biggest threat to Britain’s security,” by Christopher Hope and Tom Whitehead in the Telegraph, April 10 (thanks to Thomas Pellow):

The crisis in Syria has emerged as the biggest threat to Britain’s security, The Telegraph can disclose.

The threat to the UK from returning fighters from the Syrian civil war is now the same as that from al-Qaeda terrorists in the borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The increased risk will refocus attention on the decision by David Cameron – backed by MPs in the House of Commons – not to intervene as the Syrian conflict worsened last August.

For the past two years, British jihadists have been able to gain access bomb and weapons training as well as further radicalisation.

There are fears that British men who have been radicalised there are also being encouraged to return to the UK to carry out attacks here rather than staying to fight.

As many as 500 Britons have headed to Syria to fight in the past three years – far higher than the numbers who travelled to Iraq.

The police and security services are understood to be monitoring around half of that number who have returned. Some arrests have been made.

A senior Whitehall source told The Telegraph: “We are seeing a growing threat to the UK from terrorist groups in Syria.

“The threat to the UK comes from a range of countries and groups but Syria is perhaps the biggest challenge right now.”

Confirmation of the escalating concern was made by an additional paragraph to the Government’s assessment on the threat from foreign fighters published on the Security Service’s website.

It says: “Over the last two years, we have seen Syria become an attractive destination for UK extremists wishing to engage in violent jihad.

“The nature of the conflict in Syria and the emergence of the Al Nusrah Front, which has declared its allegiance to Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, is leading to the country becoming an increasingly significant potential source of future threats to the UK and UK interests overseas.”…

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  1. tpellow says

    Apr 10, 2014 at 7:12 pm

    The BBC recently ran interviews with U.K Muslim relatives of an Islamikaze who massacred people in Syria, and the word ‘hero’ was used in the headline.

    • Emil says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 6:59 am

      That’s how the left and the Muslims take over.
      In Israel also the leftist media took over, as well as the supreme court of law, whose actually the enemy of the Israeli people. The supreme court of law in Israel works as a leftist monarchy, it has the “right” [AKA power] to suspend laws that been decided by the government, and also they can to make their own laws that apply on all Israeli people. And the funny thing is that they are “cloning” judges, because the current staff is choosing the next generation of judges that will come after them, without elections, which in my opinion should include at the very least the current government that the Israeli people chose or to run an election among the Israeli people themselves.

      And ofcourse the supreme court of law is well “supported” by the European regmies, and the current leftist regime in the US.

  2. tpellow says

    Apr 10, 2014 at 7:22 pm

    “Terror training in Syria makes attack on UK ‘inevitable'”

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/terror-training-in-syria-makes-attack-on-uk-inevitable-9241144.html

    • Michael Copeland says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 10:41 am

      Should say “yet another” attack.

  3. Wellington says

    Apr 10, 2014 at 7:34 pm

    Britons? In name only, never in spirit. Never. And therein lies the root of the problem.

  4. Islamisdeath says

    Apr 10, 2014 at 8:27 pm

    OMG they are all uglier than a baboons butt! Wonder how Cameron will deal with any future events they perpetrate? You know like that event in Woolrich.

    • Salah says

      Apr 10, 2014 at 11:28 pm

      That’s probably because they resemble their fathers.
      Muhammad has a “scientific” analysis for this phenomenon!!!

      Muhammad said:” If a man has sexual relationship with his wife and gets his discharge first, the child will resemble his father.”

      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2010/06/testing-muhammad-tester-mahomet.html

      • Islamisdeath says

        Apr 11, 2014 at 12:15 pm

        Wow that Mohammed was quiet the scientist wasn’t he?

  5. Bezelel says

    Apr 10, 2014 at 8:59 pm

    Robert and Pamela are considered threats? Really? WTF?

    • tpellow says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 5:57 am

      Since Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have been banned from entry to Britain (not not Australia), a second Muslim (in addition to the unelected Warsi) has been appointed by British government to its Cabinet; so this is likely to further block the freedoms of Pamela and Robert.

      • Bonnie says

        Apr 11, 2014 at 9:24 am

        What is the name of this new Muslim appointee?

  6. Tommo says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 2:54 am

    Robert,
    The correct term for these thugs is British Asians or British Muslims. They are not and never will be Britons because they have no historical or ancestral ties to Briton. To call them Britons is to insult those principled, industrious people who made this nation and who must never be confused with these foreigners who live in the UK and, by every means possible, attempt to undermine our culture and plan to destroy our heritage.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 12, 2014 at 10:27 pm

      Tommo, Robert Spencer wasn’t referring to these Muslims who have established a base camp in the UK as “Britons”—he was quoting another source.

      In fact, Spencer has noted many times that Muslim populations in Dar-al-Harb overall have no loyalty to Kaffir nations, but only to the Ummah.

  7. joeb says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 4:34 am

    This political appointment will have flown in under the radar for you, Robert, but David Cameron in the UK has just appointed a Muslim as the new Minister for Culture.

    Altogether, now “Kumbaya, my lord, Kumbaya, Kumbaya, my Lord etc. etc…”

    • Aardvark says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 8:53 am

      “This political appointment will have flown in under the radar for you, Robert, but David Cameron in the UK has just appointed a Muslim as the new Minister for Culture.”

      A mohammedan culture minister? There is no culture in Islam.

      Islam destroys other cultures, but has no culture of its own to replace them. Hence the barbaric chaos in the unfortunate countries where Islam rules.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 12, 2014 at 10:47 pm

      joeb wrote:

      David Cameron in the UK has just appointed a Muslim as the new Minister for Culture.
      ……………………..

      That’s the first I’d heard of this insanity, joeb.

      Here’s the story in the Daily Mirror:

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2601111/The-Muslim-bus-drivers-son-set-Commons-superstar-ANDREW-PIERCE-new-Culture-Secretary-Sajid-Javid.html

      Please note there is *nothing* in the story to suggest that Sajid Javid has any sort of background in culture—or, in fact, even the vaguest interest in it. *Ugh*.

  8. Saleem Smith says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 4:38 am

    British jihadists
    French jihadists
    American jihadists
    Canadian jihadists
    Australian jihadists
    And so on and so on…

    What all of these jihad happy Mohammedans have in common is that they take Islam seriously and are committed to the implementation of Islamic law, the Sharia.

    We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that these jihadis are simply devout Muslims demanding that ALL OF ISLAM be applied, not just some.

    The 164 jihad verses in the Quran make jihad a central tenet of the Islamic creed. Muhammad’s recorded sayings and doings (hadith and sira) complete the murder manual of Islam’s canonical texts.

    At least 75% of the Sira (biographies of Muhammad and quotes attributed to him) is about jihad.

    The largest part of the Islamic texts (the Quran, hadith and sira) relate to the treatment of unbelievers, kafirs. Approximately 67% of the Quran written in Mecca is about the unbelievers, or politics. Of the Quran of Medina, 51% is devoted to the unbelievers.

    Mohammed preached his religion for 13 years and garnered only 150 followers. But when he turned to politics and war, in 10 years time he became the first ruler of Arabia by averaging an event of violence every 7 weeks for 9 years. His success did not come as a religious leader, but as a political leader.

    Political Islam asks: What is the real jihad? The jihad of inner spiritual struggle, or the jihad of war?

    Statistical analysis of the Bukhari hadith (considered by Muslims to be the most authentic of the hadith collections) show that Muhammad repeatedly speaks of jihad. In Bukhari, 97% of the jihad references are about war, and 3% are about the inner struggle. So the statistical answer is that jihad is 97% war and 3% inner struggle.

    There are 146 references to Hell in the Quran. Only 6% of those in Hell are there for moral failings ” murder, theft, etc. The other 94% of the reasons for being in Hell are for the intellectual sin of disagreeing with Mohammed, a political crime.

    Islam is no “religion of peace”. Islam is primarily a religion of “injustice, intolerance, hatred, and violence.” The fact is, if we non-Muslims were to say about Muslims what the Quran says about us, we would be arrested for hate speech. The Quran largely preaches discrimination, death, and imposition of its dogma on everyone. Certainly some Muslims will be offended by such statements, but frankly, so what? Judaism and Christianity, the world’s two other major monotheistic religions, have had to face the harshest of scrutiny and criticism for several hundred years which continues to this day. Islam must not be granted any special privileges or be exempt from such treatment – the implications are of tremendous importance.

    Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:

    “One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Quran 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…

    The statement continues,

    Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”

    http://www.faithfreedom.org/

    • bill says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 5:33 am

      Saleem Smith
      Thankyou for your exposition. and your courage in speaking out. I will save it for future reference and I hope others will also. I suggest you send a copy to Cameron and other leaders in govt. and opposition. the UK and the EU have to wake up before it is too late.

    • John Stefan Obeda says

      Apr 11, 2014 at 5:11 pm

      Thank you very much Saleem Smith for your information. I’ve copied almost all of it long hand since my computer here doesn’t copy only your report, but it would copy everything. It copies the whole works. God bless our efforts to spread the truth about our enemy. “Know your enemy” was a motto of the Greeks I hear.

  9. bill says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 5:16 am

    It is quite obvious, allowing anti jihadist into UK willupset the Mislims and we cannoy allow that as it may provoke them into civil unrest. Returning jihadists
    are heroes to the muslim community so that is permissable. The same applies to the extremist preachers allowed to come and preach in mosques, at the invitation of peaceloving muslims of course

  10. Doc says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 5:53 am

    I wonder what diseases from the dark ages they’ll bring back with them besides being trigger happy.

  11. logdon says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 6:27 am

    When the Tory’s, albeit by a very slim majority which forced the coalition won the last election we all thought that, at last some semblance of sanity would return to our political arena.

    Alas, it was not to be and such is the power of institutionalised Frankfurt Marxism which has permeated every nook and cranny of our society, Cameron goes with the flow, believing that this is the Conservatives only chance of rule.

    That he’s misread the runes is the understatement of our fledgling century and as a guide UKIP party head, Farage’s two trouncings of Cameron’s buddy Nick Clegg in the recent debates is quite peerless.

    No one could be more angry at your ban than myself but when I mention this to others they look blank and more or less mutter, who?

    It is a shocking disgrace and even more so when we see that obvious jihadis are returning pretty much unhindered.

    However the mood out there is changing.

    No more ‘nice Mr Ahmed’ who runs the corner shop as excuse when the likes of Anjem Choudary is quite explicitly demanding a sharia state.

    No more excuses when despite an obvious msm clamp on the rape stories emerging almost on a daily basis the lid cannot be held down.

    No more pettifogging about religion of peace when a serving soldier is virtually decapitated just yards from his barracks.

    The tide, maybe to some glacially slow, is at last turning and people once muffled by a kind of guilt trip heaped upon us by the previous government are speaking out.

    A fear of castigation is losing its gnarly grip as stone cold evidence points out that we have been fed an outrageous lie about so called multi-culturalism.

    It’s only ‘multi’ when all party’s collaborate.

    Right now Muslims are practicing a mono-culture within a host society and with a vast proportion on welfare.

    That’s what I’d call parasitic and it’s not what we, albeit at the point of prosecution, signed up for.

    We are in the midst of unasked for turmoil. The political classes are despised as never before and there’s upheaval ahead.

    Bring it on is what I say. It can’t get worse.

  12. Emil says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 6:41 am

    Europe and the western world is going to live in a dark and creapy world.
    Only those who chose life, AKA fight Islam, are going to survive.

    As a proud Israeli, I think Israel should not make any concessions to the “Palestinians” [the biggest lie of all], wether the EU and the current leftist American regime will like it or not. we should not care about it.
    Sooner or later EU and the US will understand that they are facing dark times, maybe worse than the middle-age.

    Europe due to the radical Islamic invasion losing it’s power constantly. Israel shouldn’t fear, we just have to learn the trick, which is crying constantly and briding the UN with good money.

  13. duh_swami says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 7:28 am

    Slow national suicide by surrender. The British elite created and sustained this problem, and now are bewildered as to what to do about it. They may pat themselves on the back for being such responsible leaders, but they have given the shaft to regular British folks. Their country is no longer theirs, it is shared with something foreign, strange, and lethal… Islam. When you open the door to Islam, you get the total package. The label says, ‘Caution, this package contains sharia, open at your own risk’. The elite decided to take that risk, or ignore it, and every evil possible jumped out of the box along with Jack. Now they can’t figure out how to get Jack back in the box without hurting his feelings. The elite banned Spencer, Geller and Michal Savage, when what they really should do is ban Jack., and not be concerned with his feelings.

  14. duh_swami says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 7:41 am

    From post above…Europe due to the radical Islamic invasion.

    Does that mean there is a non radical Islam somewhere that is not invading?
    Is there anything about Islam that is not radical? Since the entire ball of wax is ‘radical’, calling it ‘Radical’ as part of it’s title is redundant. Worse than that it is a deception, either deliberately, or inadvertently. Because it does imply to the gullible that the real Islam is being twisted for the personal gain of a few radicals/criminals hiding behind this very peaceful religion…Islam is Islam, Period.

  15. inquisador says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 8:19 am

    “The police and security services are understood to be monitoring around half of that number who have returned.” Why aren’t they monitoring the rest? ”

    As I read it, because they haven’t returned. They are monitoring the half that returned and the other half is still out there. Yes it is ambiguous.

  16. fraser allan says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 9:12 am

    But….but…..but, these freedom fighters used the Koran to justify fighting in Syria, so how can they be “security risks”? Surely they were fighting for freedom and tolerance for all.

  17. charleston says

    Apr 11, 2014 at 12:43 pm

    good

    maybe that will wake up the Brits

  18. andy says

    Apr 12, 2014 at 5:36 pm

    There Will be another British soldier behead in the street of london?

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