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UK: May government admits “significant portion” of returned ISIS jihadis free, “no longer of security concern”

Feb 7, 2018 8:44 am By Robert Spencer

Of course. To arrest and prosecute them might offend Britain’s Muslim community, and Theresa May would rather admit that Islamic terrorism is Islamic than do that. Her Islamopandering is in hopes of gaining votes that will probably go to Labour anyway. May is unaware of or unconcerned about the lasting damage she is inflicting upon her hapless constituents, who in any case have been rendered so ignorant and complacent by the British government and media that no significant opposition has formed to the Conservative/Labour establishment policies of appeasement of Islamic supremacist groups and mass Muslim migration. Britain is, of course, finished.

“May Govt Admits ‘Significant Portion’ of Returned Islamic State Jihadists Going Unpunished, Roaming Free,” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, February 5, 2018:

Theresa May’s government has admitted that “a significant portion” of the more than 400 Islamic State fighters who have returned to Britain are at large, unpunished, having been deemed “no longer of national security concern”.

The admission came in response to a question in the House of Commons by Labour MP John Woodcock, who demanded to know why the Government is refusing to release figures on the number of returned jihadists being prosecuted, despite having previously provided them.

“Are more than 400 of those returning individuals in jail or going through the court system? We simply do not know, because the Government will not release the figures, despite repeated requests,” he told the chamber.

“There is strong demand from the public to know how many who travelled to fight foreign jihad are currently free in British communities. Those men and women are escaping justice, despite having been prepared to fight British troops in the name of a sickeningly evil cause.

“If they are not locked up or deradicalised, they are potentially able to import back to British streets brutal killing techniques learned on the battlefield.”

The refusal to update the number of prosecutions is fuelling the suspicion that in fact only a fraction of returnees are being charged because it is often too difficult to amass sufficient evidence that is admissible in an open court,” he added.

“That suspicion extends to suspected terror suspects who are deported back to the UK … They should be delivered straight into the judicial system and made to pay for their crime, but how many are?”

Speaking for Theresa May’s government, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department Victoria Atkins MP confirmed that “we know that more than 850 UK-linked individuals of national security concern travelled to engage with the Syrian conflict” and that “over 15 per cent” are presumed killed, with “just under half” thought to have returned to Britain.

She then admitted that “A significant proportion of those individuals who have already returned are assessed as no longer being of national security concern” — meaning they have not been prosecuted and are at large in the country — possibly not even under active surveillance….

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  1. john spielman says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 8:54 am

    Prime Minister “sharia” May is an ostrich with her head in the sand!

    • Andy says

      Feb 7, 2018 at 8:57 am

      • Andy says

        Feb 7, 2018 at 12:39 pm

        GREAT BRITAIN!

        • Andy says

          Feb 7, 2018 at 12:42 pm

          “Where are all the English people?”

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 8, 2018 at 12:08 am

          This has nothing to do with ethnicity–it has to do with culture.

          Ethnically Western converts to Islam are just as savage as those of other races.

        • Andy says

          Feb 8, 2018 at 7:53 pm

          Do you want Ethnic Castration for your country???

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 8, 2018 at 8:03 pm

          Andy, if you are asking whether I’d rather have patriotic Britons who are, say, Indian or Caribbean Infidels or else ethnically British Muslim converts who want to replace all the civlized heritage of the United Kingdom with the horrors of Shari’ah, sorry to tell you I’d have to go with the former.

          Islam is an ideology, not an ethnicity.

        • Andy says

          Feb 8, 2018 at 8:36 pm

          Grave,

          I am posting what Michael Savage has said and found it of interest with his unique perspective on subjects and thought the JW readers would find it of interest as well.

          https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/02/uk-muslim-rapes-woman-on-bench-in-horrific-attack#comments

          I wrote this comment to you earlier, – on the Jihadwatch subject UK muslim rapes woman on bench in horrific attack.

          Feb 6, 2018 at 5:40 pm

          Hello grave, first let me start by giving my condolences to you for the loss of your aunt.

          My pleasure with the Vera Lynn music, We love Vera Lynn and Gracie Fields, Remember her???

          You brought back a memory to me of my mom when you said “Yanks”, Mum used to tell me stories about the Yanks, “Got any gum chum” LOL. Ah, Mum miss you so. Proud Yorkshire English Lass!

          Mum used to tell me about the jerry planes and the bombings.that happened in WW2. Terrible, A lot of people don’t realize that England was bombed heavily by the Germans in WW2.
          By the way, thank your Mum for her service.

          Now, grave I don’t have a problem with races, since my own family is like the United Nations, So I hope people don’t get the impression that I am some wild racist bigot who hates everyone but white people, This couldn’t be further from the truth. We all get along because we are on the same page.

          In other words we all love the Judeo-Christian democratic civilized way of life. Everyone is welcome who are Patriots of the land regardless of skin color and make an effort of fitting into the mainstream of the culture that is already in place.

          When I say the Indigenous people of Great Britain it will be the white people because this is there native homeland and they will have the best understanding of the country, culture, traditions more than someone who has recently immigrated to the land. Why do 2nd and 3rd generation of muslims who were born in the UK or any western nation turn to terrorism??? They don’t have that connection with the land like the indigenous people do.

          It is like that guy in Sweden who was appointed to be the cultural minister he doesn’t have a real connection to the history of the land, just like we don’t have a connection to the middle east or other foreign lands unless we have some relative who was born there.

          To finish off let me say thank you for your insightful comments and I hope what I have written has clarified with you and anyone else who might happen to read this comment my position in this matter.

          Cheers!

          Andy

          Added information to what I wrote above to the phrase:“Got any gum chum”

          Got Any Gum Chum

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pDbY-6YA8A

          When the first American servicemen arrived in England in March 1942, the indigenous population greeted their presence with mixed feelings. A certain level of resentment of these newcomers was harboured by the English and expressed by many in the in the well-worn phase of the time ‘over-paid, over-sexed and over here’

          https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/got-any-gum-chum/9780752499901/

        • Andy says

          Feb 10, 2018 at 2:07 pm

          COMING SOON TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • mortimer says

      Feb 7, 2018 at 12:59 pm

      Theresah the Appeasah.

    • gordon miller says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 8:24 am

      Well, as long as she doesn’t ask us for any money to help rebuild her country, she can do any crazy thing she wants.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 5:04 pm

      I consider Teresa May a “Security concern.”

  2. StellaSaidSo says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 8:56 am

    ‘No longer of national security concern’? What does this mean, Theresa? How do you know they are not a threat to national security? You don’t even know where they are.

    • Phil Copson says

      Feb 7, 2018 at 12:08 pm

      “‘No longer of national security concern’? What does this mean, Theresa?”

      It means “I don’t care, so why should you?” together with “I’m not a fit person to be entrusted with national security.” and “I’m going to keep my head down and keep on taking the money for as long as I can spin this thing out for.”

      The English phrase for this attitude is “Blow you, Jack – I’m all right.”

      How that translates into other JW readers’ languages, I don’t know, but this is my excuse to recommend watching that excellent 1959 b/w British comedy “I’m Alright Jack” for an illustration of what it means.

      If Theresa May was more of a redoubtable Margaret Rutherford figure with a keen sense of right and wrong, we wouldn’t be in this mess….perhaps I should send her a copy ?

      In fact, to keep the comparison going, Philip Hammond – the UK Chancellor – would be a perfect fit for innocent Stanley Windrush’s (Ian Carmichael) – unscrupulous “Uncle Bertie”,-(Dennis Price) – the dodgy proprietor of “Missiles Ltd” who concludes a deal with one party while secretly negotiating to break it.

      His oppo’ – the plump, louche, cigar-smoking, Sidney de Vere Cox (Richard Attenborough) – exuding a kind of greasy bonhomie – (“No, no – you’ve got hold of the wrong end of the conception, dear lady – it’s the management wot does the perspiring…) – would be perfect for the portly, grasping, couldn’t-give-a-damn Ken Clarke.

      Jeremy Corbyn and his Momentum mates are a shoe-in to replace Peter Sellers as shop-steward “Fred Kite”, the Communist Russia-fixated shop-steward – (“All them fields of waving corn and ballet in the evenings…”) – and the “down-tools-everybody-out “Works Committee”.

      But who could possibly do justice to the role of “Mr Mohammed”, the Middle Eastern arms-buyer who’s so keen to divert his government’s funds into his own pocket ? Anybody got Mahmoud Abbas’s home number ?

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Feb 7, 2018 at 12:22 pm

        LOL, I think you’re right about Theresa holding on as long as she can, which probably won’t be very long, if JRM can be persuaded to step up. Love your casting ideas for classic re-make! May I suggest Tariq Ramadan for the ME arms-buyer?

        • Phil Copson says

          Feb 7, 2018 at 7:22 pm

          I thank you for your kind words of approbation; there was actually a man-about-town character in “I’m Alright Jack” in the shape of the womanising Personnel Manager, Major Hitchcock. This role was played by the wonderful Terry-Thomas, memorably confiding man-to-man to John Le Mesurier’s appalled efficiency expert –
          “Did a spot of “Time-and-Motion” of my own last night; red-head – very athletic…”

          But Terry-Thomas’s screen persona was that of a bounder, out to show a girl a good time; Tariq Ramadan appears to be a fish of an entirely different colour, and I wouldn’t want to sully Terry-Thomas’s reputation by admitting the comparison: Maybe the sinister Ramadan would suit a re-make of “10 Rillington Place” ?

          More cheerfully, we haven’t yet cast our politician to play the typical Ian Carmichael “Stanley Windrush” role in the mythical JW remake of “I’m Alright Jack”; so who can we pick to be the awfully nice young man from a good family with floppy hair and perfect manners ? Whether he possesses the requisite “bubble car” in which to woo Liz Fraser – (“Stan – is them your own teeth?”) – I do not know, but you’ve already named him – step forward Jacob Rees-Mogg !

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Feb 8, 2018 at 3:05 am

          Yes, you’re right, Phil, any actor playing a comedy role must be possessed of a good SOH, and TR is lacking in that department (among others). I can’t see a role for him in 10 Rillington Place, I’m afraid, but he might do a credible Basil Zaharoff in Reilley, Ace of Spies. Leo McKern was wonderful in the role, but not quite oily enough. And yes, the delightful JRM could step into roles in any number of British classics. Indeed, he has the appearance of having just walked off the set of several of them!

      • Indiana Tom says

        Feb 7, 2018 at 5:47 pm

        Theresa May’s government has admitted that “a significant portion” of the more than 400 Islamic State fighters who have returned to Britain are at large, unpunished, having been deemed “no longer of national security concern”.
        Well, if you have no national security, then you have no problem!
        What me worry? Alfred E. Newman.

  3. R Russell says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 9:35 am

    Good grief. After admitting that the government had no idea where the jihadis were – in spite of news reports that they are hiding in London Birmingham Leicester and Luton, the Government presumably by osmosis, can say they are no longer a threat.
    I Suppose the government never got the intelligence that most JW readers have, that Al Baghdadi told returning Jihadis to continue their attacks on the Kuffr in their home countries.
    I despair at our country.
    If this nonsense doesn’t drive more of us onto our knees before YHWH, I don’t what else will.
    If we wait too long we will reap what we sow.

    • Phil Copson says

      Feb 7, 2018 at 12:16 pm

      “… in spite of news reports that they are hiding in London Birmingham Leicester and Luton, the Government presumably by osmosis, can say they are no longer a threat….

      “Oz Moses” you say ? If Mossad are on the case, we can all sleep easy……

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Feb 8, 2018 at 3:09 am

        No worries, mate, with Oz Moses, the kosher Aussie agent on the job, you’re in safe hands. And if you’re having any trouble sleeping, he’s got just the right tablet for you.

    • Jayell says

      Feb 7, 2018 at 2:33 pm

      “I despair at our country.”

      Sorry, but WHO’S country are we talking about? I get the impression that there are some differences of opinion as to who ‘owns’ the UK now.

  4. Louis says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 9:39 am

    Fight against your country and then be allowed to return and be treated like a 1st class citizen over the majority. The state bends over backwards to give you a free house plus benefits.

    ……………………………………………IS THE PRIME MINISTER IN HER RIGHT MIND???…………………….

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 5:09 pm

      Probably not.

  5. utis says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 9:56 am

    The first time one these parasites hatches out and kills people, if the Brits don’t drag May out of No. 10 and dump her in the Thames, they will lose all my respect. In spite of my Irish descent, I’ve always had affection and at least partial respect for England. Lately, Britain has been in a race with Sweden for total scorn (at least for the current culture).

    So far it’s been Sweden by a length. Don’t pull out ahead, England.

  6. CRUSADER says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 11:13 am

    Hey, Theresa, it’s No Hijab Day!

    Got the memo?

  7. CRUSADER says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 11:57 am

    And then there is this, speaking of world domination…

    Prophet Muhammad on British Empire // Prophecy about Britain ______

    • Andy says

      Feb 7, 2018 at 1:08 pm

      Thanks CRUSADER for the video

      We are going to have to get all the Patriots together and start a CRUSADE to get our western Judeo-Christian Civilization back!

    • Darko says

      May 4, 2018 at 10:18 pm

      What I don’t see is that rabble of mostly poorly educated, often illiterate but often cunning, human beings who label themselves as ‘muslims’ somehow taking over the world. How do 1.5 billion people , who have no military somehow manage to overcome the military might and enslave all the people China, Russia, India, Australia, Canada, and all the EU and South America? They’re not going to do it by military means and certainly not by convincing 5.5 billion people by enticing them to believe their 7th century bedouin desert fables.

      It’s simply not going to happen. Never.

      as far as military takeovers go – what will happen is they’ll try to destroy the people they’re fixated upon – Israel. But get blasted in the process of doing so.

  8. Steve K says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 12:46 pm

    This is the new UK. Where they jail and fine people for free speech. and they let known jihadists roam free.

    Anarchotyranny at its finest.

  9. DFD says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 1:08 pm

    Cross posted by necessity – I am getting confused with those headlines:
    (1) France: Knife-wielding Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” threatens to kill people, hospitalized for dementia, and
    (2) UK: May government admits “significant portion” of returned ISIS jihadis free, “no longer of security concern”

    Wouldn’t it be a lot easier to simplify to:

    In France knife wilding Muslims are no longer a security concern, whilst in Britain the May government admits a “significant portion” of it should be hospitalized for dementia.

    Would save a lot of screen space, wouldn’t it?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 12:24 am

      DFD, the story you cite *is* covered at Jihad Watch:

      “France: Knife-wielding Muslim screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ threatens to kill people, hospitalized for dementia”

  10. shoehorn says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 3:24 pm

    I guess she figures they got all that head-chopping stuff out of their system.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 12:35 am

      Hah!

      • J D S says

        Feb 8, 2018 at 11:57 pm

        Hah is right graven…… I’m afraid they have not got all that head chopping out of their system….God help England.
        God may be her only help….and all of Europe as well…
        At least I can’t see America spending dollars and BLOOD
        again to save Europe. I could be wrong but…It seems to me that if it had not been for America, England and the whole of Europe would have been lost in WW2…and at the same time Americans were fighting another war in the Far East..I could be wrong though may that never happened. Seems like May be some Muslim countries were saved also…Oh I forgot wasn’t there some Muslims fighting for Germany? God save us from ourselves……”We have met the enemy and we are them”

  11. Undaunted says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 8:08 pm

    So, all these returning jihadi assholes are… dead?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 1:00 am

      If only, Undaunted…

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 3:15 am

      No, Undaunted. More than 300 of the 400 who returned have gone to ground. Theresa hasn’t a clue where they are, and can’t be arsed looking for them. I expect some of them will turn up eventually – as body parts, along with those of their victims.

  12. WESTPAC Spy says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 8:14 pm

    “Theresa May’s government has admitted that “a significant portion” of the more than 400 Islamic State fighters who have returned to Britain are at large, unpunished, having been deemed ‘no longer of national security concern.’”

    Deemed, as a matter of convenience of course. Too hard, too dangerous.

    Q&A between me an cop, after I had admittedly been speeding but everyone else had been going much faster.

    Cop: “Do you know why I pulled you over?”

    Me: “Because I was the easiest one to catch.”

    No, now they’re devoting their police effort against the true threat to Monarchy. “Islamophobes” on social media. They’re the easiest to catch since no “NO GO ZONES” will be involved. Likely unarmed, too. Much better and safer for the cops, who know who they’ll be working for in ten years.

  13. gravenimage says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 12:01 am

    UK: May government admits “significant portion” of returned ISIS jihadis free, “no longer of security concern”
    ……………………..

    Bloody insane.

  14. MFritz says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 6:47 am

    “They promised us to behave nicely from now on! Besides, they were only fighting for ISIS in Syria, and this is the UK, which is far away and not related! And no more criticism, as this is clearly islamophobia!”

    Well, Ms May, I guess we “hear” more from those ISIS-fighters once they commit the next act of terrorism and your government gets the opportunity to eliminate another bunch of – white – civil rights in “return”.

  15. Politicianophobia says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 10:41 am

    YES

  16. p says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 11:33 am

    Merk’s satanic sister

  17. Hogdude says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 12:48 pm

    Goodbye, Jollye Olde England. We hardly knew ye.

  18. n. soundara Rajan says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 3:24 am

    Every crime ( however much obnoxious it might be) in western books seems to be allowed by the Religion of peace and its God Great Allah. When May is prepared to accept such Sharia Laws in her rule, where is the security threat?

  19. JH says

    May 2, 2018 at 5:48 pm

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEXWjlgJ83E&w=560&h=315%5D

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