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UK: Foreign and Commonwealth Office halves its counter-terrorism budget

Jun 22, 2014 5:45 pm By Robert Spencer

Foreign and Commonwealth OfficeIt’s astonishing that the British government would take this step at a time when concern about jihadis returning from Syria and Iraq to wage jihad in Britain is at its height. But perhaps the Islamic supremacist pressure groups that wield so much influence with the British government have convinced British officials that a high counter-terrorism budget would be “Islamophobic.”

“Foreign and Commonwealth Office halves its counter-terrorism budget,” by Sam Jones, Financial Times, June 22, 2014:

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has halved its counter-terrorism budget even as officials warn of the most severe threat to the UK from overseas terror groups since the London bombings in 2005….

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  1. Islamisdeath says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 6:01 pm

    Brilliant!
    How does the song go? “Suicide is painless”

    Well its painless if you arent having your head sawed off or being bludgeoned or stuck in a hole with baying minions of satan throwing rocks at you head that is.

  2. tpellow says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 6:16 pm

    Yes, the politically spineless U.K government cuts security spending to defend British people, but increases spending on financial donations to foreign countries.

    The Cameron-Clegg-May-Warsi government continues to enable the further Islamization of Britain, daily.

  3. Looking for CM says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 6:32 pm

    All the absolutely insane policies the west embraces cannot be explained short of the leaders being totally influenced by evil. These are not the deeds of sane decent people. It may be suicide nationally, but it will also be mass murder of those who are counting on their countries’ leaders to protect them.

    • sencit says

      Jun 23, 2014 at 9:24 am

      I’m in total agreement with you. There is no explanation other than the influence of evil. It certainly goes beyond arrogance or stupidity.

    • larry s says

      Jun 23, 2014 at 9:38 am

      While I agree this sounds ominous, there may be more to it. To draw any conclusions, one would have to put this in the context of any other offices that might be duplicating the effort Foreign and Commonwealth Office counter terrorism effort. But this is certainly something the backbenchers should be inquriing about.

  4. Jim Watson says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 8:01 pm

    Call me an optimist,, but this is, hopefully, an indication that the chase is narrowing and that affordable cuts are being put into effect. Maybe, just, the decision-makers are focussing on the root-causes at last.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jun 23, 2014 at 7:58 am

      ”Call me an optimist,, but this is, hopefully, an indication that the chase is narrowing and that affordable cuts are being put into effect. Maybe, just, the decision-makers are focussing on the root-causes at last”

      And just **how** do you come to that conclusion ?

      ”The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has halved its counter-terrorism budget even as officials warn of the most severe threat to the UK from overseas terror groups since the London bombings in 2005”

      Did you read that bit ?

      And what, exactly, would you call the ”root causes” ?

      Oh, I know, violent jihad is ’caused’ by poverty and alienation, right ?

      You’re either a fool, or a mohammedan in a mask, or a leftard useful idiot.

  5. jr says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 9:18 pm

    i think when a bomb blows up in front of the PMs house, they will quickly reconsider

    • Charli Main says

      Jun 23, 2014 at 1:35 am

      Never happen because Cameron is one of Britain´s leading Muslim enablers.
      Remember Cameron´s immortal words ??” Muslims have made an enormous contribution to Britain or I intend to turn Britain into the Islamic financial capital ahead of Dubai ”
      There is no way that the Muslims are going to blow up their number 1 asre kisser but I do get your point !!!!

      • Mirren10 says

        Jun 23, 2014 at 8:04 am

        ”Never happen because Cameron is one of Britain´s leading Muslim enablers.

        There is no way that the Muslims are going to blow up their number 1 asre kisser ”

        Oh, I don’t know, Charli, mohammedans have a history of biting the hand that feeds them !

  6. Richie says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 9:44 pm

    Is George Galloway now in charge????

    • Judi says

      Jun 23, 2014 at 6:41 am

      Ha – that wouldn’t surprise me! He must be laughing all the way to the bank.

  7. Lloyd Miller says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 8:48 am

    Why, Robert, are you so reluctant to name the problem. The Petro-Dollar recycling elite: Soros, Rockefeller, Bloomberg and many more are agents of influence for the Saudis and other OPEC mega-buck MUSLIMS!

  8. Yokel says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    Let’s put a few things together about this alleged government incompetence. I contend that in fact it is competent actions on behalf of yet unnamed actors.

    1. The Left invited lots of these people in, and are proud of it.
    2. The Right have moaned about it in opposition, and done nothing effective when in government. (Conclusion = they condone it)
    3. All governments around the world seem to be cracking down on the freedom of expression of their peoples. (The eerie synchronicity of these actions leads me to believe that they are not the random actions of individual states.)
    4. The peoples being oppressed will/do not like this repression, so the States all need an excuse.
    5. How about these excuses:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2665635/Former-MI6-chief-admits-impossible-tabs-Briton-fighting-Syria-estimates-300-come-UK.html
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2664929/Terror-fallout-British-jihadists-fighting-Syria-felt-years-come-Britain-says-Met-Police-officer-warns-new-threat-Islamic-extremism.html
    6. Therefore to prevent civil bloodshed, we the peoples must accept even more draconian restrictions, oversight and censorship. You see that it is the only way; the freedom of the peoples will be increased by restricting their freedom. Or as George Orwell had IngSoc (in 1984) put it: “Freedom is Slavery”

    Conclusion: The Jihadis are merely the modern equivalent of Lenin’s “Useful Idiots”. Worse is yet to come.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 24, 2014 at 11:44 pm

      Yokel, I’m afraid you are yet another person who can’t bring himself to recognize Islam as an actual threat—instead, it is all a plot by the repressive, authoritarian West. Good grief…

      • Yokel says

        Jun 25, 2014 at 6:10 am

        Shall we agree that ad hominem attacks have no place here, and that we ought to be focussing instead on the issues?

        Firstly add to my point 6 above the knee jerk reaction of the British Home Secretary to increase internet censorship for all – see here for a reaction: http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/tory-answer-to-terrorism-is-censorship.html

        Secondly may I point you to the teachings of the “Frankfurt School” and of “Antonio Gramsci” (Wikipedia might be somewhere to start but there is a much wider background available on line). Both are of the Hard Left; both believe that they must destroy Western civilisation in order to achieve their political aims. So add in Islam and we have three ideologies, each of which has decided that NOW is their chance to “go for broke”.

        I don’t know about your country, GI, but in mine the threat is not only from strict Koran and Hadith believing Muslims, but also from the Hard Left (which sadly seems to include much of the three main political parties these days). I believe that there is a case to be made that the government has given the Islamists a free rein, and deliberately allowed them to get out of control, so that more draconian measures can be introduced.

        In conclusion, I do not deny that Islam is a VERY big problem. I am however suggesting that it is not the only problem in town. I am also suggesting that at least one of the problems is taking advantage of the other problems.

        My own personal conclusion is that the Hard Left is currently ahead on points, but you are free to dispute that with evidence if you wish.

  9. Linda Rivera says

    Jun 23, 2014 at 5:03 pm

    UK ruling elites don’t have money for counter-terrorism because they spend it all on welfare benefits, money and social housing for muslims Most muslims live off infidel taxpayers.

    They also don’t have money for counter-terrorism because every year the UK government send a free gift – a huge amount of money to Pakistan. Most muslims in Britain are from Pakistan. Britain supports muslims in Britain and muslims in Pakistan.

    Besides that, UK ruling elites prefer spending time and money on tracking down infidels rather than jihadis. The authorities tracked down a young mother who placed bacon on a mosque door and threw bacon into the mosque. The judge gave her 12 months in jail, acknowledging that she had a young child.

    In Britain, bacon throwing is regarded as so violent, dangerous and evil that infidels who throw bacon are punished severely. The hated infidel child who desperately needs her mother’s love and care is viciously punished and ruthlessly deprived of her mum for a whole year.

    Join Britain’s Paul Weston’s Liberty GB patriotic political counter-jihad party! http://www.libertygb.org.uk

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jun 28, 2014 at 7:03 am

      Patriotic English people (and this includes all non-Muslim immigrants who have assimilated and are committed to living in England and who do not want to see it devoured by the Desolation of Mohammed) can *also* affirm English culture by joining The Royal Society of St George, and proudly flying the Cross of St George outside their house or business.

      http://www.royalsocietyofstgeorge.com/

      On flying the flag:
      http://www.royalsocietyofstgeorge.com/other_premises.htm

      (Let’s imagine, for example, a happy-to-be-in-England and jihad-aware Hindu family flying the Flag of St George outside of their Indian restaurant, which is of course, non-halal, and has a picture of Shivaji displayed on the wall inside, right next to another picture of St George…).

      And they can also join Gavin Boby’s Law and Freedom Foundation and make a difference down at the grassroots, for example, by campaigning against mosque-building.

      http://lawandfreedomfoundation.org/

      I can understand why Scots and Welsh might not go with the Society of St George…but they might create “brother” organisations under the patronage of St Andrew and of St David, and fly the Saltire and the Pendragon alongside St George and the Union Jack, in order to show solidarity.

  10. gravenimage says

    Jun 24, 2014 at 11:49 pm

    UK: Foreign and Commonwealth Office halves its counter-terrorism budget
    ………………….

    I guess Jihad terror just isn’t a problem anymore since we’ve got Jihadists returning in droves from Syria and a new Caliphate taking bloody shape in the Levant—not to mention increasing numbers of “British” Muslims vowing to drench the streets of the UK in blood.

    What fools these dhimmis be!…

  11. London Jim says

    Jun 25, 2014 at 1:49 am

    @mirren10 easy tiger. I’m one of the good guys floating ideas.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jun 28, 2014 at 8:00 am

      Hi, London Jim, good to see you posting !

      I was replying to ‘Jim Watson’. Is that you ?

      If I’d known it was you, I’d have been more polite, but I still disagree with what you said:

      ” … indication that the chase is narrowing and that affordable cuts are being put into effect. Maybe, just, the decision-makers are focussing on the root-causes at last.”

      I have **zero** trust that the UK government will ever do the right thing, in regard to islam and jihadist mohammedans. camoron is lost in his dream of making London the sharia banking hub of the world, and still convinced that mohammedan violence across the world, and on **our own streets** has ”nothing to do with islam”. He has Warsi crooning into his ear.

      We have the moronic clegg, who is convinced jihad is caused by ”poverty and alienation”. Remember what that fool said about the London riots ? Scores of mohammedans, Jamaicans et al, destroying property, stealing goods, and attacking innocent bystanders, and according to clegg; ”we have failed our young people”. Puke. Spit.

      What do you mean when you say ”the chase is narrowing” ? I’m thinking of all those jihadist scum, who, if they’re not killed in Syria, will come, ( and are) back here, trained, having tasted blood, and ready to murder some British kufr.

      May is waffling and blithering; first she wants to stop them from going, then she says she’s going to cancel *some* passports, then she says ”we are going to monitor these people carefully”. (which will cost us, the taxpayers even more unnecessary expense). She’s all over the place.

      What do you mean by the ”root causes” ? Surely the root causes are, quite simply, the koran, the hadith, sharia.

      In view of ISIS, returning jihadists, etc, to cut the counter-terrorism budget is suicidal stupidity.

      ”The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has halved its counter-terrorism budget even as officials warn of the most severe threat to the UK from overseas terror groups since the London bombings in 2005….”

      Apart from our disagreement, I hope you’re well, London.

      Mirren (aka Jan) 🙂

  12. London Jim says

    Jun 29, 2014 at 7:38 am

    Greetings Jan. I stand corrected for my naïve optimism re the politicians. My only realistic hope was that analysts in the security services might be wiseing-up in regards to the motives, ie the Koran Sira & Hadith as you rightly mention. The information on JihadWatch does seem to be getting out into the public square, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised as of late to see the ‘J’ word on the headlines of a number of newspapers.

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