Many more towns and cities in proud new multicultural Britannia will soon be breaking this record. “How former mill town Dewsbury in West Yorkshire is linked to more than a dozen Islamist extremists and terrorists including Britain’s youngest suicide bomber,” by Ollie Gillman, MailOnline, June 15, 2015:
Set in a quiet corner of West Yorkshire, on first glance the former mill town of Dewsbury looks perfectly innocent.
But bubbling away under the surface of the thriving community is a deep-rooted problem with hardline Islamic extremism.
Home to Talha Asmal – the 17-year-old boy believed to be Britain’s youngest suicide bomber – Dewsbury is also where two of Britain’s 7/7 bombers lived, including the man who masterminded the attack, Mohammad Sidique Khan.
Khan bombed the Edgware Road London Underground train in 2005, killing himself and five others, and was the eldest of the four attackers.
He is thought to have indoctrinated the younger bombers, including Shehzad Tanweer, 22, who killed seven as he blew himself up between Liverpool Street and Aldgate.
Tanweer attended Tablighi mosque in Dewsbury with Khan, who was originally from Beeston, near Leeds, before the attack, which claimed the lives of 52 innocent people and injured more than 700.
The mosque is just three minutes’ walk away from Talha’s home.
Qari Asim, imam at the Makkah Mosque in Leeds, said he did not know why Dewsbury was linked to extremism.
He said: ‘As an Imam, we are not aware of mosques preaching radicalisation but it must be happening somewhere, whether it’s underground or online.
‘It’s like a paedophile ring. I hate to say it, but it is. They prey on vulnerability. They persuade them there’s a great life ahead of them in Syria and Iraq but we know it’s not like that.
‘We don’t know why there is a problem in Dewsbury. Ultimately it comes down to people preying on people’s vulnerability.
‘They could be in London, Cardiff or indeed Dewsbury.
‘People who see radicalisation in mosques have a duty to report it. It’s our duty to our religion, our nation and the globe – because what we’re seeing with ISIS is a global threat.
‘Human life is sacred in Islam, and to see a young person from one of our communities tricked into killing others and dying for the sake of this false ISIS ideology is truly heart-breaking….
Heart-breaking, yes. And odd that so many are “tricked” in the same way.
Stuart Lindsey says
My home town of Luton is no different , full of an ever increasing number of jihadists raising their multiple children to hate The UK, Our Democracy, Freedoms, Laws non Muslims . The local council ignore them instead focusing their efforts on stopping the ‘ right wing extremists ‘ of the EDL for example , prattling on about ‘ the religion of peace ‘ .
The ONLY Peace My Nation will have is when Islam is expelled from it`s shores !
Annak says
Luton is Tommy Robinson’s home town isn’t it ? I feel for you. I was born near Scotland. I loved England, now an ex-pat. I am in grief real grief over the loss of my beautiful country with such nice people ! Not everyone, as impossible, but generally. What an idyllic childhood I enjoyed looking back. And what has happened. How did we get this far. ( maybe because we are TOO nice )
I feel robbed. So must you still there seeing it change into some disaster third world zone.
But maybe we should be grateful for small mercies. In Germany I read a judge in Berlin had to FLEE the court-room because Lebanese clans were fighting Afghani clans with baseball bats etc ! Apparently this is common-place in Germany.
What a cultural diversity, what a richness eh ? I doubt a judge has ever had to flee a court in Europe before? Not in living memory for me now in my fifties and surely not in centuries
But, bring the third world here, and hey presto , “amazingly ” we ARE the third world.
mortimer says
When will the intelligence community see the ISLAMIC SUPREMACIST CHIC SUBCULTURE among Muslim youth in the West?
Are they blind?
mccode says
Quite a line-up of unsavory creeps.
Georg says
Well, isn’t that wonderful? And this a town which isn’t normally talked about as having problems with Islam… Sam Harris did a good job on Real Time of describing the reality that jihadists are the end of the line of Islamic orthodoxy. These twelve went, but who did they live with? All 12 had families which were oblivious? And how any friends did each have, what were their views? How is it TWELVE got one well enough in the community to make it over there?
It’s so obvious, there IS a fifth column in Britain and the Island is very obviously overrun with West-hating Islamic supremacists. If it’s not joining IS it’s holding a warm place for them in their hearts. If it’s not liking IS it’s liking some other whacko group. And if none of those, you can be DAMNED sure a persistent antipathy for Britain that flows so thick anytime some Muslim starts speaking out in a talk show; it’s always Britain and Western Society (which they obviously abhor so much as one can see by their living there) is on the burner for criticizing them and making their lives excrement while any Middle Eastern society (which they obviously love so much as one can see by their fleeing the place) can do no wrong and are always hapless victims of the West no matter the circumstance or issue being discussed, which begs the question: If Israel is responsible for all their problems how can Britain be also?
There is simply a massive number of Muslim people in Britain who despise it and only tolerate so as to benefit from the fruits of the culture they so outrageously and thanklessly criticize.
*puke*
Oliver says
The Imam said that eh did not know —-. How many people go to that mosque/ is it like a mega-church where there could be 1,000 or more? or is it a small place, with maybe 20-30; or between the two.?
if a small place, or medium (100 or so, or less, at any time) and the imam did not know the person/people-is he new there?
if not, sounds like a lying slimebag.
Just my view.
Georg says
Oh, it’s just another in a long line of “shocking” instances. I looked for, but can’t find at the moment, a video from a mosque in London (it wasn’t a small mosque, either) where some Islamic whacko was speaking at the fore all sort of virulent hatred for the UK/West, about non-Muslims, and every other thing. I remember an intelligence analyst commenting on the video just aghast that this was occurring in downtown London in a prominent mosque. Wish I could find it… But to your point: These imams and whoever else at least know which way the wind blows, don’t let them convince you they don’t, and more likely they fan the fire. A great many of these mosques are beachheads and that’s all there is to it.
Angemon says
Same old, same old – no one knows of any “radicalisation”, but people become “radicalised” anyway.
I wonder if anyone the country who gave us Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple will be able to unravel such a mystery…
Funny choice of words, considering what took place over the course of decades under the self-censoring noses of law enforcement. Makes one wonder: exactly how much does the “honourable” imam know about “radicalisation” and paedophile rings to merit such a comparison?
zulu says
The breeding ground for jihadis where even the ice cream lady wears a burka: Once a great textile centre of industry, the English town of Dewsbury has undergone a terrible transformation
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3125530/The-breeding-ground-jihadis-ice-cream-lady-wears-burka-great-textile-town-Dewsbury-undergone-terrible-transformation.html#ixzz3dBQa8sJt
Richie says
The British fought the Nazis wuth great heroism- but why are they so hesitant (of not afraid) to confront the Muslims?
Islam and Naziism are on many levels identical
mortimer says
There is a subculture among Muslim youth of hatred of KAFIRS and CRUSADERS.
The youth subculture is one of RADICAL ISLAMIC CHIC.
Become aware of it. Look for it. Find it. Report it.
Ralph Sidway says
My first thought upon reading the headline: “Sounds like Boston…” Or Minneapolis… Or Northern Virginia (Falls Church)… etc.
Ephesian says
Strange how these people are “radicalised” and yet…NOBODY KNOWS HOW.Yeah right,look no further than their upbringing,their visits to the mosque,their religion.My,my,that was difficult to work out,wasn’t it? The imam of course,is completely clueless as to why these fine,upstanding pillars of our community would do such a thing,not a clue.Taqiyya,try that for size.
Indian says
Hitler is a secrete Muslim. All of his hate towards Jews is based on his Quran reading.
Baucent says
The question the Imam needs to be pinned down with is ; what are you proactively doing to counter the Jihadist ideology?
I suspect like most Imams, he is doing nothing as far as denouncing the Jihadists and may of course be a secret supporter.