“If the Government is serious about tackling ISIS they really need to take serious steps to tackle rampant Islamophobia – and we are actually recruiting more youths by targeting religion and targeting the people.” How is Britain “targeting the religion and targeting the people”? Through its anti-terror measures. So in other words, British efforts to fight against jihad terror, such as they are, only lead to more jihad terror. If the British would just surrender, all would be well. That is essentially what Yousif Al-Khoei — not that anyone in Abject Britannia would dare point that out.
“Cameron Warns Of ‘Quietly Condoning’ Islamic State,” by Jason Farrell, Sky News, June 19, 2015:
The Prime Minister has told Muslim communities to “play their part” in helping tackle “one of the biggest threats our world has faced”.
In language described by some Muslim leaders as “unhelpful”, David Cameron suggested that some Muslims have been “quietly condoning” anti-Western ideology.
Mr Cameron said there has been “finger-pointing” at the security services – while it is families of Islamic State recruits and their communities who need to be more proactive in combating the extremist narrative….
However, Yousif Al-Khoei from the Centre for Academic Shia Studies described the Prime Minister’s comments as “unhelpful”.
He told Sky News: “If the Government is serious about tackling ISIS they really need to take serious steps to tackle rampant Islamophobia – and we are actually recruiting more youths by targeting religion and targeting the people.”
Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, Khalid Mahmood, told Sky News: “We’ve lost community support officers on the street.
“In my constituency they are like gold dust but because they were able to go into the communities, understand the communities and find out what’s going on and to deal with it.
“Those resources have been cut and are due to be cut again, so I think what he has got to do is be balanced on this issue.”…