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“Twice as many’ UK Muslims fighting for Islamic State than in UK armed forces

Aug 21, 2014 6:46 pm By Robert Spencer

isis-video-stillThis is the fruit of the clueless and craven British authorities’ naive and suicidal assumption that all the Muslims in Britain, with the exception of a tiny minority of “extremists,” were all secular pluralists and loyal subjects of the British crown. They partnered with pro-Sharia, pro-jihad groups. They demonized foes of jihad terror and banned them from the country. Now they are just beginning to reap what they have sown for so many years.

“‘Twice as Many’ British Muslims Fighting for ISIS Than in UK Armed Forces,” by Madeline Grant and Damien Sharkov, Newsweek, August 20, 2014:

There are now more than twice as many British Muslims fighting for Islamic State than there are serving in the British armed forces, according to a British Member of Parliament (MP).

Khalid Mahmood, the MP for Perry Barr in Birmingham, estimates that at least 1,500 young British Muslims have been recruited by extremists fighting in Iraq and Syria in the last three years.

Mahmood told Newsweek that this figure had been building since the start of the Syrian conflict: “If you look across the whole of the country, and the various communities involved, 500 going over each year would be a conservative estimate.”

According to the Ministry of Defence, there are only around 600 British Muslims currently serving in the Armed Forces, making up approximately around 0.4% of total personnel. 4.3% of the British population are Muslim.

The UK Foreign Office said that they believe over 400 individuals have travelled to Syria since the uprising began, but said that they could not give exact numbers.

However Mahmood described such low estimates as “nonsense” and said that the British government was failing to deal with the problem of home-grown extremists. “We’ve not concentrated on the prevention work, we haven’t invested enough in de-radicalisation. It’s tragic, somebody’s got to wake up to it.”

The role of British jihadists fighting in the Middle East has been brought into sharp focus after Islamic State released a video showing the apparent beheading of US journalist James Foley by a masked jihadist who spoke with a British accent.

In June, three militants involved in an ISIS propaganda video were identified as Cardiff students Reyaad Khan, 20, Nasser Muthana, also 20, and his younger brother Aseel, 17.

Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi last week told Channel 4 news that a Kurdish leader told him that Islamic State fighters in Iraq had been carrying a Liverpool FC season ticket and a gym card from Ealing in London. He estimated the number of Britons fighting for Islamic State at as many as 700….

Responding to the Islamic State video earlier today, UK-based radical Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary who is a vocal supporter of establishing a Caliphate under Islamic Sharia Law told digital radio station Fubar Radio that “it’s not important if it’s a British person carrying out the execution because you’re Muslim first and British second”.

A Home Office spokesperson told Newsweek that the British government is aware of the threat of Islamic State recruitment campaigns in the UK, insisting “the police and security services are actively working to detect and disrupt terrorist threats. People seeking to travel to engage in terrorist activity in Syria or Iraq should be in no doubt we will take the strongest possible action to protect our national security, including prosecuting those who break the law.

“We also have a wide range of powers at our disposal to disrupt travel and manage the risk posed by returnees,” the spokesperson said.

The Ministry of Defence did not immediately respond to Newsweek’s request for comment.

What a surprise.

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  1. tpellow says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 7:04 pm

    “London jihadist tweets that she wants to be ‘the first UK woman to kill a UK or US terrorist’”

    http://metro.co.uk/2014/08/21/london-jihadist-tweets-that-she-wants-to-be-the-first-uk-woman-to-kill-a-uk-or-us-terrorist-4840638/?

    • JOHN SPIELMAN says

      Aug 22, 2014 at 7:59 am

      Churchill’s revenge: the present govt talking head’s appeasement with these islamo fascists is a miserable failure , and NOW they arrest people for quoting Churchill’s opinion of muslims and islam!

  2. tpellow says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 7:10 pm

    Supplementary.

    -from ‘The Times (£) -front page, Friday-

    “More UK Muslims choose jihad than the army”

    (Excerpt)-

    “More than twice as many British Muslims have travelled to Syria and Iraq to wage jihad than have joined the British military over the past three years. The difference could be even greater after it was claimed last night that the number of Britons to have fought with Islamic State (Isis) and other extremist groups in the region was much higher than the 400 to 500 identified by police. One MP said that more than 1,500 British militants had joined the fight to create a caliphate, while a leading figure in the Muslim community put the figure at between 600 and 1,000. About 560 Muslims serve in the British army. The figures came as the hunt intensified for the British jihadist who beheaded the American journalist James Foley. In the fast-moving crisis: · A former French hostage said he believed that he knew the identity of the suspected killer, dubbed Jailer John. ·…”

    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/

    As a sign of the times, most of the page 1 headlines of Friday’s U.K national newspapers contain the word- ‘JIHAD’.

    http://news.sky.com/uk

  3. tpellow says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 7:23 pm

    “‘I know ISIS butcher known as John the Jailer’:
    French former hostage says he has a ‘rough’ idea who masked British jihadi is ”

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2730336/Find-British-butcher-mask-Jihadi-filmed-beheading-American-journalist-identified-John-Londoner-gang-UK-extremists-known-The-Beatles.html#ixzz3B4VtHkaT

  4. Max Publius says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 7:26 pm

    Listening to Texas Gov. Perry; sounds tough, but still clueless on the nature of the enemy.

    IT’S THEIR ISLAMIC RELIGION, STUPID!
    Take 5 minutes to read beyond the 5 Pillars and find the murder, rape, enslavement and looting! It ain’t hard you PC government bozos!

  5. Max Publius says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 7:37 pm

    Just remembered, per my previous post, there are moron trolls on JW who smugly say that murder, rape, enslavement and looting is in the Bible. Touche, NOT you illiterates, who can’t tell the difference between a description of fact and a command to act. Its the difference between Diane Sawyer and Charlie Manson. SO, put that in your pipe and shove it!

  6. Silvia says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 9:35 pm

    “Just remembered, per my previous post, there are moron trolls on JW who smugly say that murder, rape, enslavement and looting is in the Bible”

    Actually, all these things are condemned in the bible!!!!

    Looting is entirely prohibited.

    Rape is NEVER condoned in the bible – not even once!

    Murder is also considered a very big sin. There are extenuating circumstances in some cases but it’s NEVER condoned.

    Like you say, when these things are mentioned in the bible, they are mentioned as a description of facts, events that happened thousands of years ago, and what happened as a result. Usually, it seems to send a message about morals and what NOT to do.

  7. umbra says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 10:28 pm

    why would any non-islamic countries want ROP followers in their armed forces?

  8. BC says

    Aug 22, 2014 at 9:04 am

    I do not understand why this is remarkable. The first loyalty of a Muslim as Choudary says, is to the umma, the Muslim community. In addition British units get sent to fight Muslim extremists. It does not matter to a young man (or woman) that they are trying to protect other Muslims. Infidels are not allowed to kill Muslims, that is war on Muslims everywhere. I would be more surprised to hear that there were a lot of Muslims serving in the British army. Remember the two jihadists who murdered the soldier in London are regarded as heroes by many in the UK Muslim community. It is paradoxical that the extremists think every non Muslim in UK is collectively responsible for the actions of the UK govt, and therefore a legitimate target. even if they disapprove of the govt.
    Yet the same logic is absent when IDF kills people in Gaza who are considered ‘innocents’ and not responsible for the actions of the Hamas govt.
    which they are supposed to have voted for almost unanimously!

  9. el-cid says

    Aug 22, 2014 at 1:18 pm

    And, when they return to Britain, they will defeat the infidels in Britain and establish the Caliphate there.

    This is something even the Ottomans could not do.

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