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UK: Two teens arrested for something

Apr 5, 2015 8:40 pm By Robert Spencer

UK-Police2Imagine in 1940 and 1941 if British media coverage of The Blitz never identified who was bombing Britain and why. All its coverage was on the order of “Airplanes bombed England for the tenth straight day,” etc., with no indication that there was a war on, or who was fighting.

That is what this story is like, and it is typical of media coverage of jihad activity. These two teens were arrested on suspicion of preparing for acts of terrorism. What kind of terrorism? No telling. Part of the global jihad? NBC doesn’t deign to tell us, although it does give us a hint by adding the bit at the end about the Muslim who was arrested at the airport.

This is why we’re in the fix we’re in. How can we win a war when few even know there is a war on, and when everyone is afraid to identify properly what exactly we’re fighting?

“Two Teens Suspected of Preparing for Acts of Terrorism Arrested in England,” NBC, April 5, 2015:

A teenage boy and girl suspected of preparing for acts of terrorism were arrested in northern England, British police said Saturday.

The 14-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of preparing for acts of terrorism in the county of Lancashire Thursday after investigators examined “a number of electronic devices,” the Greater Manchester Police said in a statement. On Friday a 16-year-old girl was arrested in the city of Manchester “on suspicion of engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism,” the statement said.

Police said both teens were arrested as part of an investigation involving counter-terrorism and police agencies, but it was unclear whether the pair was related in any way. Both are out on bail until May 28, the statement said.

The U.K. raised its terror threat level from substantial to severe last August, in part because of home-grown extremists, who might travel to Syria or Iraq and wage attacks on the West, according to the U.K.’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Center.

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  1. Georg says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 8:46 pm

    These headlines get me everytime..

    • Lia Wissing says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 5:50 am

      Who teaches at the Manchester mosque? Do these children attend a madrassa?

      • particolor says

        Apr 6, 2015 at 7:11 am

        Demolition Coarse starts Tuesday after Morning Prayers !!

  2. American says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    I guess the UK must really cherish its Muslim, in order to put up with this daily barrage of (so far) thwarted terrorism. You have to ask yourself. Why do they continue to expose themselves to this? What is it gaining them? Is there no one interested in putting an end to it?

    • citycat says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 12:36 am

      Numbers of interested people are growing.
      One problem is the “tiny minority” who mainly seem to be in nice positions, and a portion of which get media attention voicing the view that Islam is peaceful and it is only a “tiny minority” making a fuss, and Islam is not at war with all infidels.
      I heard they stopped Christmas celebrations because muslims complained of blasphemy, but not the other way round of course.
      Surely it is obvious.

      • michaelwarden says

        Apr 6, 2015 at 11:40 am

        Some city Councils here in the UK banned the word Christmas and instead insisted on the word ” Winterval “.

  3. mortimer says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 11:23 pm

    More of those Buddhist, Jehovah’s Witness, Seventh Day Adventist and Mormon terrorists…no doubt.

    I’m going out on a limb now…does this relate in any way to Koran 8.60 ? (turhibunna…terrorize them)???

    • particolor says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 6:54 am

      It was the Polar Bears !!
      And that poor Muzzo Kid was only making a Crystal Set !!

  4. Nathan says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 3:58 am

    It seems today because of the media blackout, and that fact that they can’t name the religion that can’t be named, that every plane crash, fire, murder and suicide bombing in the world is placed squarely at the foot of islam. This makes the ‘moderates’ (yeah right) uneasy, and the extremists get a win, because if it isn’t mention then all the death = islam. That’s what everybody automatically thinks. So the powers that be aren’t shielding us from islamic terrorism, they are promoting all deaths to islamic terrorism by reporting it all the same.

    You hear of a plane crash = islam.
    You hear of a murder/stabbing = islam.
    Riots = islam.
    Fires = islam.
    Rapes = islam.

    How is this helping anybody, at all?

  5. RICHTHOFEN says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 4:26 am

    What chance do we stand of knowing what we are up against, and how to combat the enemy when the Chief Constable of Manchester Police, Sir Peter Fahy, says ” The wonderful, peaceful nature of islam” on BBC Radio4? – this is the level of capitulation and appeasement that we have reached. Deluded Multi- Culturalism and political (in)correctness have our leaders and the media intoxicated to the piont where we are sleepwalking to oblivion – they have anaesthetised the British people. Genocide of the heritage British race is just a few short years away

  6. Laura says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 5:31 am

    This Easter the leaders of the 3 main UK political parties issued statements condemning the persecution of Christians; however, they avoided telling the public who it is that’s doing the persecuting. I mean, it could be anyone, couldn’t it?

    • Lia Wissing says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 5:54 am

      Quoting Mortimer: More of those Buddhist, Jehovah’s Witness, Seventh Day Adventist and Mormon terrorists…no doubt. Mortimer you left out us peculiar Methodists. We feel sidelined & our feelings are deeply hurt.

  7. duh_swami says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 6:44 am

    In order to, ‘never underestimate the enemy’, you have to realize you have an enemy and then see who it is…If you don’t do that, you are a victim in waiting…and in some cases the line is short and the waiting time is minimal…

  8. Christopher Cole says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 9:04 am

    A saying from my father: If your refrigerator doesn’t work, changing the tires on your car won’t fix it.

    In other words, accurately identify the problem so that you can fix it.

  9. rcourtemanche says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 10:50 am

    What has happened for youth not to be attracted to traditional heroes anymore? Would serious consequences such as hard imprisonment even making a difference, considering that youth’s brain doesn’t focus that far ahead to realize what punishment and sorrow feel like?

  10. Dazzle says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 1:55 pm

    Wait until an “innocent” Muslim child or teenager is shot by a police officer – that will really raise the stakes.

    Who pays for all this? We do
    Who pays for extra policing? We do
    Who pays for additional counter terrorist officers? We do
    Who pays for teenagers going to or returning from “jihad” to be taken into care or custody? We do
    Who pays for compensation to the families of those affected by Islamic murderers? We do
    Who pays for “community outreach programmes”? We do
    Who pays for unproven courses delivered by Imams to “address radicalisation”? We do

    Ah, all is becoming clear – the more trouble that is caused the more tax payers money the government throws at the problem – we’d better have a deal more trouble because more money is never going to be enough.

    Almost half of the 3 million Muslims that live in the UK are aged under 25, that is a huge number of potential jihadists. 10 years ago a Special Branch officer told me that even back then the security services were attempting to keep track of more than 3,000 extremists and potential terrorists – an impossible task.

    If only 1% of the under 25 Muslims support jihad that is 15,000 people prepared to commit terrorist acts. When someone slips through the net and an atrocity is committed (eg Lee Rigby) the police and security services are vilified by much of the media for “another failure”.

    In the UK parents may be sent to prison for failing to ensure that their children attend school, however, Muslim parents receive apologies from the Police, for the Police “failure” to prevent the children of Muslims heading to Turkey and on to Syria and ISIS. These children are but Islamic weapons in the war for Europe and north America.

    The father of one of the young girls who travelled to Syria has appeared before UK members of parliament to express his anguish, upset and anger at the failure of the police to stop her and her friends leaving the UK to travel to Syria. He was praised by MPs for his bravery and fortitude.

    It later transpired that the father was a member of a banned organisation with terrorist links. Photos of him at an illegal rally were published but only 2 UK newspapers covered the story which was ignored by the BBC. So her father was shown up as a disingenuous liar – but if it advances the Islamic cause so be it. Countless hours of coverage of the 3 teenagers on airport security film appeared on UK TV news bulletins for weeks – clearly only the incompetent police were the reason behind this doting father’s distress…

    Whatever happened to parental responsibility? The stifling of debate and the evaporation of common sense is all but guaranteed by the cry of “Islamophobia”.

    In news bulletins this week the BBC repeatedly referred to a “militant group” attacking university students in Kenya. They do not report that this attack was carried out by Muslims against Christians. The slaughter of Christians by Muslims does not seem to be newsworthy for the BBC any more.

    Perhaps we should remind ourselves that “radicalisation” is not a virus or a disease, it is a choice, a choice made by free will. Oh well, yet another method for abdicating personal responsibility for one’s own actions, aided and abetted by a pliant and fearful media anxious not to offend.

    Beware Turkey and it’s EU membership ambitions – full membership of the EU is the objective for the radically Islamic freely elected Turkish government. There are approaching 80 million Turks and they are almost all Muslim. Turkey’s armed forces are a million strong. The objective is to gain full access to the EU by 2023 at the latest, the centenary of Attaturk’s Turkey – not much remains of his secular legacy.

    Brussels functionaries have already given hundreds of millions of your money to Turkey so that they may meet EU standards in a panoply of different areas and make substantial improvements to their infrastructure…so indirectly we pay for the upgrading of Turkey’s armed forces whilst our armed services are overstretched, cut back and under further threat.

    Big business wants Turkey in the EU for greater access to cheap labour – for example Ford have already closed a successful UK manufacturing plant and built a factory in Turkey for a new model to be built there – and sold of course in the UK..apologies for meandering off topic…

  11. Jerry says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 4:29 pm

    When a patient in first infected with Ebola only a tiny minority of his cells are initially affected.

    The process is similar when a tiny minority of a community is first infected with Islamic Jihaddist thinking.

    The problem is that while initially most of members of a community are not infected by Ebola,
    the Islamic Jihadist infection is fully saturating Muslim communities and is simply temporarily lying dormant until breaking out in its full malignancy.

    Like in nuclear fission, it usually requires a critical mass to explode.

    Don’t let Muslims reach a critical mass in your society, country, region, town or community
    because the ensuing destruction is inevitable.

    • particolor says

      Apr 7, 2015 at 2:12 am

      Tell that to the UK Islamic Judge !!

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