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UK is world’s leading recruiting ground for al-Qaeda

May 21, 2014 8:21 am By Robert Spencer

Muslims carrying banners declaring 'Islam will dominate the world' protest at the visit of Mr Wilders to the UKThis is the Britain that Blair, Brown and Cameron have made. This is the Britain that Cameron wants to feature a London that will “stand alongside Dubai as one of the great capitals of Islamic finance anywhere in the world.” This is the Britain that thinks it is appeasing and satisfying the forces of Islamic supremacism by banning Pamela Geller and me from the country, prosecuting those who desecrate Qur’ans, and clamping down ruthlessly on any resistance to the Islamic supremacist agenda.

“Abu Hamza is gone, but Britain remains the world’s leading recruiting ground for al-Qaeda,” Telegraph, May 20, 2014 thanks to Pamela Geller):

When will we ever learn? While David Cameron and Theresa May rightly rejoice over the conviction in New York yesterday of Abu Hamza on a range of terrorism charges, they still have not come to grips with the fact that London and other parts of the UK remain a major operational base for Islamist terror cells.

During the 1990s I wrote a series of articles for The Telegraph pointing out how Britain had become the favoured haunt of leading Islamist terror groups, from as far afield as Saudi Arabia to Algeria. But these warnings went completely unheeded by the security services, who kept insisting that the likes of Abu Hamza posed no threat to Britain or British interests.

And yet, more than a decade after the 9/11 attacks, and as the tenth anniversary of our own terrible 7 July attacks on London’s transport system approaches, anti-Western Islamist groups continue to flourish in Britain, busily recruiting naive young British Muslims to fight in Syria, and using Britain as a base from which to launch terror attacks against our long-standing allies in the Arab world – countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt.

Last year’s murder of British soldier Lee Rigby in south London should have served as a wake up call to our security services that Islamist cells based in Britain are not only concerned with targeting foreign governments. More recently the estimated 450 British jihadists who have travelled to Syria – and in all likelihood been radicalised by al-Qaeda and other related groups – should have got the alarm bells ringing.

And yet, just as happened during Abu Hamza’s heyday at the Finsburty [sic] Park Mosque in North London in the 1990s, I get the sense that British ministers and security officials still do not grasp the enormity of the Islamist terror threat Britain continues to face today. Frankly, the fact that the Americans can bring Abu Hamza to justice, and Britain did nothing even though most of his crimes were committed on British soil, is a damning indictment or our approach to this growing menace.

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  1. joeb says

    May 21, 2014 at 9:57 am

    I’m wondering how long it will be before the drones are over Tower Hamlets, Bradford, and Birmingham? And I’m not joking.

    • Jay Boo says

      May 21, 2014 at 10:52 am

      There should be no need for drones if only the media would do their job properly and reveal Islam in all its gut-wrenching filth.

  2. Rav says

    May 21, 2014 at 11:27 am

    I don’t understand why commentators say they are radicalised by Al-Qaeda in Syria. Its clear they are being radicalised in Britain.
    Anyhow radical seems to be describing a devout muslim.

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    May 21, 2014 at 1:46 pm

    The title of the above article reads “UK is world’s leading recruting ground for al Qaeda.” One of the reasons for this may be that far too many of the people of England have turned away from the believing in and the study of the Bible.
    For the foundation of al Qaeda is Islam with its Quran. The point being that the Bible exposes many of the doctrines of Islam to be false doctrines. There is one Bible based,Christian internet site concerning Islam. It’s answering-islam.org

  4. karpenter says

    May 21, 2014 at 1:52 pm

    This Is The UK The VOTERS Created

  5. mark says

    May 21, 2014 at 2:01 pm

    Appeasing a tyrannical people does not work. Tyranny must be resisted with in-your-face force. Britain will learn this lesson the hard way, or worse, not at all.

  6. tpellow says

    May 21, 2014 at 6:07 pm

    “Decapitation, Morality Squads and ‘Five-Star Jihad’
    A Month of Islam in Britain: April 2014”

    by Soeren Kern.

    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4319/morality-squads-five-star-jihad

  7. raylanfear says

    May 21, 2014 at 9:10 pm

    Anwar Awlaki, was an imam at a Mosque in America, now we have over 2500 Mosques and some of them do breed in grown homeland terrorists. Is there really moderate Muslims and how can you really tell the difference?

    We have yet to learn from the tragedy of 9/11. After over a decade of violence and terror from Islam, it has not been resolved. Ayaan Hirsi Ali perhaps said it best, “Violence is inherent in Islam”. It must be noted that Ayaan has won every single debate on the subject as to whether or not Islam is a religion of peace. It is not. She speaks from experience as a former Muslim, and speaks out against radical Islam and Sharia Law. She has been accused of hate speech and has death threats on her life, merely for telling the truth.

    There was a time when our government thought that Anwar Awlaki (American born terrorist and Iman preacher at a Virginia Mosque and main recruiter for al Qaeda) was a moderate Muslim, and actually invited him to speak to members of Congress and our military officers.
    He had them all fooled, using taqiyya (The practice of concealing one’s beliefs in dangerous circumstances originates in the Qur’an, which deems blameless those who disguise their beliefs in such cases.[8] The practice of taqiyya in difficult circumstances is considered legitimate by Muslims of various sects. Practically, taqiyya is any form of lying, deceit, misleading, half-truths or related practices condoned by Islamic doctrine to further the growth of Islam or to protect the individual from harm. Taqiyya is one of the reasons we are “surprised” by acts of violence or terror from those previously considered to be “moderate” Muslims. .”

    In other words it is OK for Muslims to lie to accomplish their mission. He was an American born terrorist who incited English speaking Muslims to commit terrorist acts. He preached to 3 of the 9/11 hijackers and was linked with Nidal Hassan who committed the Fort Hood massacre. Awlaki preached a hateful ideology an inciting violence against America and a leader of al Qaeda.

    A good friend of Anwar Awlaki is Ism Suhaib Webb who worked alongside of Awlaki and also joined al Qaeda. Where do you think Ism Sahib Webb is today, almost too shocking to believe but he teaches the future of Muslim leadership in America at a college in Claremont, California called Bayan College (Bayan known for Honest Man?) How pathetic and perhaps dangerous?

    Why he was even allowed back into the United States for his known terrorist connections why was he not arrested let alone teaches at a college? He apparently has convinced the government that he is a moderate Muslim, (will we never learn that it’s OK to lie?) Just Google “theprojectmuslimbrotherhood” their doctrine to destroy America from within by stealth jihad, lies and deception just like Anwar Awlaki, who had the majority of our governments convinced, he was just a moderate Muslim. . Anwar Awlaki, the leader of Al Qaeda was killed in a drone attack by President Obama. Authorized drone attack on 9/20/2011.

    The mainstream news has no idea that this man “Ism Suhaib Webb” is now teaching at Bayan College, nor do they care. . Also on the staff, is Salam Al Marayati, who has defended terrorist acts and the groups that carry them out? Dr. Asifa Quraishi Landes who defends Sharia law is also on the staff there. Perhaps this college should be investigated, or at least the entire faculty investigated. We need to see what is really being taught there, before we have another “clone” of Anwar Awlaki in America. What is your thoughts America? Please comment.

  8. MIKE says

    May 21, 2014 at 9:26 pm

    Raylanfear, your article is very good. All of us need to constantly write to our Congressmen and the press about this Bayan College.

  9. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 21, 2014 at 10:33 pm

    I clicked on the link and had a quick look at the article in situ.

    The author is one “Con Coughlin”. You will observe that he has just written a book inspired, most likely, by Churchill’s “Story of the Malakand Field Force”. – “Churchill’s First War – Young Winston and the Fight Against the Taliban”. No idea what the book is like but at least it means he’s had a good jolt of Reality between the eyes.

    It’s actually not a bad article, so far as it goes; better than many others from MSM.

    Why don’t we write to the Tele and express appreciation and demand *more*??

    Furthermore: the Telegraph has **opened the article for Comments**.

    Those, I am about to begin reading. It will take me a while. There are no less than **six hundred** (and counting).

    I encourage all jihadwatchers to hop on over to the Telegraph. Even if one doesn’t want to register to Comment, one *can* click ‘up’ on any comment of which one approves (though to *disapprove* you have to be registered).

    Come on people, let’s exercise a little pressure.

    Let the Tele editors – and their advertisers – see that this sort of article gets *lots* of clicks, *lots* of views.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 22, 2014 at 12:27 am

      Update.

      I have just finished reading through the *600* comments posted so far below Con Coughlin’s article.

      The overwhelming majority are by native Brits who are thoroughly Islamoaware and hopping mad.

      There are a few dhimmified fools – or, perhaps, mohammedans in masks (there is only *one* commenter who openly identifies as Muslim) – trying to distract, deflect, confuse and evade the issue; but they are getting royally slapped down.

  10. Tommo says

    May 22, 2014 at 5:24 am

    Abu Hamza may have gone but we still have his wife and 9 children here who live entirely on government handouts and housed rent free in a house valued at over £1 million.

  11. mortimer says

    May 22, 2014 at 11:09 am

    65% of Muslims worldwide support a caliphate-dictatorship and discriminatory Sharia law. These can only be implemented by overthrowing governments after lots of bloodshed.

    65% of Muslims worldwide therefore support armed jihad. Far from being peaceful, 65% of Muslims are jihadist supporters.

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