This is a particularly moronic article, even for the Telegraph: “But the number of right-wing extremists arrested also rose…The surge in far-right extremism led to a jump in the number of white people being arrested, up from 68 to 113.”
“White people.” The Telegraph, like the rest of the British media, continues to present the jihad threat as one of race: Muslims verses “white people,” as if jihad were a racial issue and there were no white Muslims. This fundamentally deforms Britain’s response to the threat, because it fools people into thinking that opposing jihad terror and Sharia oppression is “racism.”
And the British government isn’t helping by indefatigably continuing to try to appease its Muslim population by pretending that there is a threat equivalent to that of the jihad coming from the “far-right.” There isn’t, and it only detracts from efforts to deal with the genuine threat of jihad to pretend otherwise. As if to exemplify the futility of this enterprise, the Telegraph includes with this article a photo of a couple of Antifa Leftists facing some police officers. Apparently the “far-right” is so thin on the ground that photographs are scarce.
“Record number of terror arrests as EU warns of ‘stay-at-home’ jihadists,” by Ben Farmer, Telegraph, June 15, 2017:
Police arrested a record number of terrorist suspects last year, as fewer would-be Islamic State group jihadists head to the Middle East and instead decide to stay at home to plot attacks.
The number of arrests for terrorism-related offences in Great Britain jumped by nearly a fifth, with 304 people held in the year until the end of March.
The figure was the highest since records began in 2001 and three quarters of the arrests were for international terrorism, almost all linked to Islamist extremism.
But the number of right-wing extremists arrested also rose to a record high after a neo-Nazi group called National Action in December became the first extreme Right-wing group to be banned as a terrorist organisation.
The surge in far-right extremism led to a jump in the number of white people being arrested, up from 68 to 113.
The Home Office released the latest figures as police and MI5 have said they are dealing with an unprecedented threat from Islamist terrorists planning attacks in the UK.
The statistics were released as the European Union’s own law enforcement agency warned about the threat from home-grown “stay-at-home” jihadists.
Stops made at ports and airports under counter terrorism powers fell sharply as the number of people heading to join Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (Isil) dropped, the Home Office said.
Fewer jihadists are heading to Iraq or Syria as Isil’s self-style caliphate shrinks in the face of an international air campaign backing Iraqi, Kurdish and Syrian rebel forces.
As the caliphate has dwindled, jihadist propaganda has encouraged would-be terrorists to remain at home and carry out attacks on civilians.
A Europol report warned: “Ongoing contact on social media between combatants in Syria/Iraq and ‘stay-at-home jihadists’ fuels the enduring potential threat posed by jihadist networks; now that leaving the country to take part in jihad has become more difficult, would-be attackers may indeed shift their focus to their countries of residence.”
The Home Office figures include 12 arrests made as part of the investigation into the Westminster attack in March. All were released without charge and told they would face no further action.
Since then, there have been two more deadly attacks, in Manchester and London Bridge, while counter-terror agencies have foiled five alleged plots.
After the Manchester attack police and MI5 said they were dealing with an unprecedented threat and were running 500 investigations involving 3,000 individuals at any one time.
There are also 20,000 former “subjects of interest” whose risk must be kept under review….
Lon Spector says
Wanting to live is the most natural thing in the world.
Surely you can’t condemn some ‘niave” white folks for thinking they have a right to exist too.
ed says
Why wait 20-30 years England surrender and give the religion of murder and hate your nation know .
Juhani says
Seems that the government is agitating “black” people against the imaginary far-right extremists. It will soon end up to a civil war.
John A. Marre says
A neo-nazi group was banned. By the same logic, Islam must be banned. Both are racist, intolerant, angry, totalitarian systems that use violence to achieve their goals.
Tom says
This quote by one of the leading proponents of Islam and a political leader says it all about the Islamic agenda.
“Assimilation is a crime against humanity. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam, Islam is Islam. The mosques are our barracks, The minorets are our bayonets, The cupolas our helmets, and the faithful our soldiers.” Tyyip Erdogan, President of Turkey
Tiredofstupid says
At what point do “white people ” decide that they will no longer listen to the government lies and obfuscations, realize they are at war with the religion of murder and get together with their “racist” allies ( Sikhs, Hindus,Buddhists, and other “right wing” members of the former empire) and start the new English civil war?
Godwin says
I suspect some right extremists had burnt down the London Tower that housed mainly refugees in a revenge attack.
WPM says
What leads you to suspect ?The new” green” insulation that was added it is very flammable could have been a tenant having a cook out on the terrace of there apartment on lower floor. Racing up the side of building in many US cities the use of coating new and old buildings has been look it in the last 12 years for flash fires racing up sides of buildings. It has been a problem with this new “green” spray on crap.
WPM says
I have read this “stuff” was added to many buildings in the London area have this coating. In New York at one point in public housing the city was using a very flammable paint in the late 1980 to 1990 in staircases. Rubbish fires at round level would ignite the paint the staircase being fully enclosed with self closing doors on each floor . The fire would race up killing people in the staircase 15 floors above were the fire started. Those fire deaths dropped when the paint was removed from the stairs and that kind of oil base paint no longer used.
notmoron says
The Looneytoo n left always been in love affair with psychos murders
somehistory says
Those who wish to help keep the image of islum alive as “peaceful” will resort to any means. Ban the neo, that may be doing a little acting, and worship the wild beast of islum because it’s doing a lot and must be appeased, not opposed.
(Revelation 13)
Tom says
Brits must stand up against this branding of anyone white (there are many different ethnic communities represented in the opposition to radical Islam) who opposes radical Islam as being a right wing radical.
Yes there are few who are white supremicists, but they are very few.
The vast majority of those opposing radical Islamic jihadis are ordinary working people who are fed up with the capitulation to and accomodation of Islam by politicians who have no backbone to stand up and say “No More” to the radical Islamists and their facilitators. No it is far easier to round up white people who take a stand.
“Politician” is a code word for appeasers and cowards.
Tom says
Brits remember this:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” Edmund Burke
AND
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
Martin Neomoller
PRCS says
When will they “get it”?
Islam is NOT left wing. Not liberal.
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In simple terms: Politics on the right is associated with conservatism; politics on the left is associated with liberalism.
mortimer says
ISLAMIZATION IS NOT A ‘BROWN’ THING because Islam is an IDEOLOGY, rather than a race.
The Telegraph would be surprised how many non-white people oppose Islamization! Many of those from other countries came to UK to ESCAPE Islamization ! Why are leftards eager to inflict DISCRIMINATORY SHARIA on people who came to UK to escape it?
Only 4.4% of UK is identified as Muslim. At least 95% of the UK is not going to benefit from Islamization in any way. 80% of all humans are NOT Muslims. Most of the 80% are not white.
UK’s Islamization is total INSANITY. APPEASEMENT WILL NOT WORK.
Shmooviyet says
“Islamization is not a ‘brown’ thing…”
Spot On!
So FED UP with the lying and twisting of truth by media and other leftists and their Manson-esque race war fantasies.
Suspect the superior leftists believe all ‘black & brown’ in the UK (and the world) are just stupid enough to be rooting for islam. These ‘communities’ all think & believe alike, after all.
Rotted minds dreaming of a world where one group dominates; very Klannish, very ISIS-like.
PRCS says
Manson-esque.
Heh!
mortimer says
The counterjihad is gaining more supporters every day.
They are thoughtful people who see the Titanic has hit an iceberg and can still be saved if correct action is taken.
Tom says
The first step to rectifying this Titanic disaster is for the crew to mutiny and change the captain and officers. In other words remove the appeasing politicians from office and replace them with ones who have a backbone and some common sense.
PRCS says
We just had an election that many thought/hoped would do that.
So far, the new administration, though an improvement, clings to the notion of “radical Islam”, “radicalization”, a “twisted perversion of Islam”, “radical Islamic terrorists”, etc.
Tom says
Control has to start at the local level. Municipal elections with the right people running and winning can change a great deal.
The muslims have realized this already.
Brits need to get involved in local elections as well as the national ones.
Lydia says
The pot is not only calling the kettle black, the pot is now trying to beat up the kettle.
DFD says
What do you think is Sharia-May’s demand, and that of Merkel, Macron, etc., all about? The demand to control the iNet, to protect it from ‘hate speech’ and the incitement to terror, what do you think it is about?
I give you a strong hint what the EU & Co. are saying: “…to protect ordinary people and Muslims from the psychological terror and incitement of the right…the ultra right has arrived in the center parties…”
Whom do you think May is referring to when she says the new law, practically proposed in every western EU, and non-EU, state, will help to safeguard the internet? That it will protect our values. Safeguard and protect, from whom, from what? Muslim hate preachers? Think again. Try Tommy Robinson, Britain First…
Well, we mustn’t worry, mustn’t we? After Brexit the invasion of evil Christianist settlers and colonists from the EU, and especially eastern Europe will stop. Only the good people from the Common wealth will come – and help to fill in the job gaps (????) we have.
Joe says
The strategy is simple. Bring in thousands of violent people. With more violence, the UK will need more police. The violence is used to agitate a “new law” as Teresa May calls it, and this law is meant to take away the rights and liberties of the citizens.
UNCLE VLADDI says
The Alt-Right are NOT right-wingers!
The “Alt-Right” are simply LEFTISTS, even if they don’t know it!
They’re closet Nazi racists, who, finding them selves scared of the “swarthy” Arab global crime-gang of islam, shallowly & instinctively want to band into a “white” racial gang, to defend them selves!
And the last time that was attempted, it was by Hitler’s “Aryans.”
So they foolishly want to resurrect the Third Reich, and dress and act what they consider to be ‘appropriate’ to that meme, is all.
They fail to realize that HITLER LOVED ISLAM AND MUHAMMAD. They also fail to realize that Arabs are Caucasians! Just like the other leftards, they ‘accept’ that “muslim” is a “race!”
Now, one could presume they were merely individualists who have only temporarily banded together against gangster extortionists, but they seem intent on making it permanent and holding Nuremberg rallies, developing uniforms and restrictive codes of conduct.
Imitating the muslim-loving, racist LEFTIST Nazis to defeat the modern muslim-loving, racist “anti” fascists is a big mistake.
ed says
You are an idgit .
chris says
The surge in far-right extremism led to a jump in the number of white people being arrested, up from 68 to 113.
Whereas the number of suspected jihadists in the UK is estimated to be around 23000.
So we see that far right extremists are the real problem in the UK………..???
When will that poor country get a leader prepared to defend the people they were elected to defend and appoint people into positions of authority who believe in the traditional values of that country rather than ‘values’ imported from the 3rd world?
The mass immigration imposed on the British by Tony Blair, is turning the UK into the hellholes those immigrants were supposed to be escaping.
And when everything goes belly up in the UK, the immigrants have a home to go back to. unlike the natives of the UK – or Europe for that matter, where I understand natives have been told to leave their own country if they dont like being flooded with immigrants