One of the reasons why Britain is dealing with so many jihad terror attacks is its refusal to confront their source and motivating ideology. This article is a case in point: neither Cressida Dick nor the Telegraph say straight out who these terrorists are. The only way to tell is the reference to being “radicalized,” and to the “colleagues overseas.” Only jihadis, not “right-wing extremists,” are an international threat, and the term “radicalized” is primarily used of peaceful Muslims who turn to jihad. That we have to read the tea leaves in this way to figure out what is going on is indication of a problem that British authorities fear to face squarely, and thus have no chance of dealing with adequately.
“UK terror plot thwarted within minutes of execution, Met chief reveals,” Telegraph, July 14, 2017:
Police have thwarted five terror attacks in the last few weeks including some which were “very close” to being carried out, Britain’s most senior police officer has said….
Speaking on Nick Ferrari’s show on LBC on Friday, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said a “very large number of plots” have been foiled over the last few years.
Pressed on exactly how many attacks have been thwarted, she said that in “just the last few weeks”, five have been averted….
“In addition, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of arrests of people who are radicalised, and are either spreading hatred or supporting terrorism, or want to carry out a terrorist attack.
“We have had a huge number of successful operations, together with the intelligence agencies and we work very closely with them and with colleagues overseas.”…
When asked if they were “within minutes” of being carried out, Ms Dick replied: “Yes.”
Christianblood says
And now things will even get worse as thousands of UK and European jihadist nationals return to UK and Western Europe after the defeat of ISIS.
PS: Remembering the 84 French civilians mowed down and killed by a huge truck driven by a muslim jihadist a year ago today. Will their families ever understand what cut short the precious lives of their loved ones on that day???
Hugh Fitzgerald says
In discussing the magnitude of the terrorist threat, governments should count, and make known to the public, the number of attacks — and possibly their intended targets — that were planned but prevented in time. This is the only way to make people understand the real dimensions of the problem. Otherwise, we will endure the paradox that the more successful the anti-terrorism efforts in any country, the less able its citizens will be to grasp the size of the problem. Do we know how many attacks by Muslim terrorists, for example, have been foiled in the United States? In France? In Germany?
WorkingClassPost says
Yes, and our jails are filling up with these hardliners, plotting and planning and converting more to their ’cause’.
And I get a rotten feeling that the real imperative to foil these attacks is to save the face of islam, rather than to save our lives.
gravenimage says
So true, Hugh–except for a few high profile cases like the attempted Times Square bombing, few Westerners have any idea how many foiled Jihad terror attacks there are. I’m sure even here at Jihad Watch many of us miss a lot.
Norger says
So true. Here are a couple of excellent articles touching on this subject. I’ve also repeatedly heard that any time there are over 1000 open ISIS Investigations, in all 50 states.
https://apholt.com/2016/01/11/right-wing-extremism-vs-islamic-extremism-in-the-united-states-a-look-at-the-numbers/
http://www.heritage.org/terrorism/report/fifty-terror-plots-foiled-911-the-homegrown-threat-and-the-long-war-terrorism
JawsV says
You gotta love the name “Cressida Dick.” Ha! Funny. And she’s clueless as all-get-out about Islam because to understand the truth about Islam and speak it would be “islamophobic.” So, we’re all “islamophobes” here on JW.
The Metropolitan police couldn’t catch Jack the Ripper though he left clues everywhere and right in their faces.
mortimer says
Commissioner Dick is a political pawn. The traitor ruling class is uninformed about the jihad doctrine.
Putting uninformed people in charge of Islamic policy is like putting people who are not doctors in charge of the BRAIN SURGERY DEPARTMENT.
The traitor ruling class of Britain is totally uninformed or disinformed. THEY ARE WILFULLY BLIND AND CLUELESS and thus play into the hands of the jihadists.
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW YOUR ENEMY, YOU WILL BE DEFEATED HALF THE TIME. – SUN TZU (The Art of War)
Jayell says
Commissioner Dick has to work under the authority of the Mayor of London. And we all know about the current Mayor of London, don’t we?
This head-in-the-san says
Cressida Dick, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, is a woman whose incompetence corresponds with the politico polemists who handed her the job. Her need to stick her head in her favorite orifice is familiar to Americans, as their former president, his comrades and leftist disciples were of her like when dealing with Islamist terrorism, denial. If I recall correctly, the Commissioner, during one of the Islamist attacks on her turf, she would not dare to utter Islam’s responsibility in this murderous, terrorist attack.
The MSM throughout Western Democracy is affected by the same politically correct, protocol when it comes to censoring Islam’s complicity and its doctrine of terror.
If the Western MSM were applying today’s PC, subversive ethos during the two World Wars; undoubtedly, the allies would have lost those wars. Al Capp, the cartoonist, once said, “We have found the enemy, and he is us.”
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
The original quote — “We have met the enemy and they are ours” — is by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812, says
https://www.nps.gov/articles/met-the-enemy-4.htm .
“We have found the enemy, and he is us” is a variant of “We have met the enemy and he is us”, a parody of Perry’s quote by the cartoonist Walt Kelly of the long-defunct comic strip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(comic_strip) , not by Al Capp, the cartoonist of the likewise long-defunct comic strip “Li’l Abner”.
In practice, any famous quote is attributed to any random famous person such as Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Jesus, Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Muhammad (pbuh), etc., etc.
Challenge to the ulema: Find the hadith from which this quote derives.
gravenimage says
You are very knowledgeable, Mark.
And Al Capp’s politics could not have been more different from Walt Kelly’s.
mortimer says
Hiring more police is not the answer. Hiring psychologists and Islamic history professionals IS THE ANSWER. Working together, psychologists and Islamologists will devise protocols for ‘ABSOLUTE DEPROGRAMMING’ to deprogram Muslims right out of Islam so that the possibility of jihad ceases to exist or becomes infinitesimally small.
Eric says
Hi Mortimer,
Have there been instances of successful deprogamming of Islamist ? If so the whole world needs to know how it is done. Thanks.
Eric
gravenimage says
Mortimer, you keep saying this–but it has never worked. Why are so wedded to this idea?
mortimer says
Small disagreement with Robert Spencer about ‘radicalization’. I believe that all Muslims support violent jihad through VERBAL JIHAD. So-called ‘peaceful’ Muslims are actually hiding, concealing and lying about the meaning, motive and methods of jihad. VERBAL JIHAD is one of the methods of jihad.
All Muslims are conducting verbal jihad… if not, they have left Islam and have taken the side of the dirty, disbelieving KUFAAR.
marina says
So now Britain will shut down the mosques, deport radical imams and strip citizenship of returning jihadis right? Don’t think so. Britain is happy that they are thwarting would be terrorist acts but not going to take any preventive measures.
gravenimage says
UK: 5 jihad terror attacks thwarted in last few weeks, one within minutes of being carried out
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Kudos to UK security. But this is just going to get worse, with more Muslims flooding into Britain all the time. How long before more innocent Britons are murdered by Jihadists?