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UK: Counter-terrorism top dog says that the fastest-growing terror threat is from “far right”

Sep 21, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

This would be a lot easier to take seriously were it not for the fact that UK authorities routinely smear completely peaceful and accurate analyses of the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism as “far right extremism.” The situation is further complicated by the fact that so much of police time, attention and resources in Britain is now being taken up by hunts for and investigations of people who have committed “hate speech,” which often consists of nothing more than that accurate analysis of the jihad threat. Is that “hate speech” a “right-wing” terror plot?

Note also this: “Mr Basu, Assistant Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police, said some of the right-wing plots they disrupted were designed to kill people.'”

Anyone who is plotting to kill people should be prosecuted, but what exactly does Neil Basu mean here? Only “some” of the “right-wing plots” were “designed to kill people.” Virtually all Islamic jihad plots are “designed to kill people,” so it’s unclear what other objective these “right-wing plots” that aren’t designed to kill people have. Are they just more speech to which the British government objects? Does Neil Basu see the “right-wing” terror threat growing rapidly because he sees all criticism of Islam, jihad violence, and Sharia oppression as “hate speech,” which he considers equivalent to violence?

“Fastest-growing UK terror threat ‘from far-right,'” BBC, September 19, 2019:

The fastest-growing terror threat in the UK comes from far-right extremism, police have said.

Neil Basu, the UK head of counter-terrorism, said seven of the 22 plots foiled since March 2017 have been linked to the ideology.

He said far-right terrorism had gone from 6% of the caseload two years ago to 10% today, adding: “It’s small but it’s my fastest-growing problem.”

But, he said, the biggest threat still came from jihadists.

Mr Basu, Assistant Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police, said some of the right-wing plots they disrupted were “designed to kill people” – and methods mimicked those seen in jihadist attacks, with some even using Islamic State materials.

Speaking at a briefing on Thursday, Mr Basu said about 10% of around 800 live terror investigations were linked to right-wing extremism….

“Despite the increases, right-wing terrorism remains a relatively small percentage of our overall demand, but when nearly a third of the plots foiled by police and security services since 2017 relate to right-wing ideology, it lays bare why we are taking this so seriously,” he said.

“As a proportion of our overall threat it’s definitely increasing, whereas the Islamist threat is staying the same, albeit at a very high level.”

Mr Basu added young people and those with mental health issues were particularly vulnerable to becoming radicalised….

Asked whether the police’s approach to right-wing threats has changed in recent years, he said: “I would say that some of the criticism that we did not look at white supremacist, right-wing violence as terrorism in the past is probably justified.”…

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  1. Henry Mansfield says

    Sep 21, 2019 at 9:54 am

    Months ago I saw a report about a briefing an incoming Justice Dept. official gave to Congress naming the ‘far-right’ as the biggest problem he foresaw, then within a few weeks there were 3 mass shooting events involving white males.
    Of course, all were assumed by media people to be motivated by ‘far-right’ ideology until proven otherwise. Let’s see, one kid was in a techno music band with Satanic lyrics…the first victim was an ex-girlfriend.
    Another left an online manifesto that was all over the place, a sign of mental instability, and the other had ties to AntiFA…a far-left domestic terrorism group.
    Subsequent reporting in media did very little to clear up the earlier assumptions as to motivation, and I didn’t see any articles asking questions going back to that odd briefing and the seeming instant vindication that materialized. I’m no conspiracy theorist but my mind made the connection instantly and the questions formed on their own.
    I think that everywhere Westerners are coming into daily contact with Islam on their own turf people are starting to notice patterns, and the same old excuses from government only cause them to self-educate.
    As they do so they become more of a threat to those governments than the Muslims, and so the definition of ‘far-right’ is dumbed-down to include them.

  2. Vyx says

    Sep 21, 2019 at 9:56 am

    I think these people are really mentally ill, and part of their mental illness comes from fear of islam. Consequently, they have created a false threat (“right wing terrorism,” “Donald Trump” “George W. Bush”) that they know will not harm them to fight so they can avoid fighting the real threat that could indeed end their lives.

    • mortimer says

      Sep 21, 2019 at 10:08 am

      Vyx is onto something. The real motive of the police and politicians is to RESTRICT THE AMOUNT OF OPPOSITION TO ISLAM and stifle speech about Islam.

      What the police fear is that jihadists will be inflamed by criticism of Islam and then react by burning and blowing places up.

      That is the real motive behind what the police are doing. They are trying to CONTROL JIHAD. If they want to CONTROL JIHAD (like ‘controlling’ weeds) they have to go TO THE ROOTS of JIHAD which is Islamic teachings.

      The only way to stop Muslims from conducting jihad is to convince them that Islam is a fabricated, man-made hoax. This is what scholars have discovered in researching the early history of Islam and in analyzing internal evidences within the primary source texts.

      Islam’s foundational texts are fraudulent hoaxes.

      • Paul Freeman says

        Sep 22, 2019 at 3:49 am

        Mortimer writes:

        “The only way to stop Muslims from conducting jihad is to convince them that Islam is a fabricated, man-made hoax.”

        Rational people, yes, but crazed fanatics?

    • End PC says

      Sep 21, 2019 at 11:25 am

      Exactly. It’s a form of Stockholm Syndrome.

    • Keys says

      Sep 21, 2019 at 8:39 pm

      Some of them are gas lighters, as well.

      Islam is the religion of peace.
      Something is wrong with you if you can’t see that.
      You’re hater, if you don’t accept that.
      You don’t know the truth about this and so should not judge , shame on you, you are isolated in thinking like that.
      You should be punished – you’ve got a problem, so submit to reality for your own good or you will be banned !
      You’re a hater and a terrorist and won’t be tolerated.

  3. mortimer says

    Sep 21, 2019 at 10:03 am

    Agree with Robert Spencer’s point: WHAT THE HECK is a ‘right-wing plot’ that DOES NOT intend to kill people? What sort of ‘plot’ is that exactly?

    What? Are they ‘plotting’ to hand out leaflets?

    Assistant Commissioner Basu doesn’t like FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION very much.

    It is his actual duty to DEFEND the freedom of expression, rather than to persecute free speech of views the government doesn’t like.

    The UK government is acting like a Third-World dictatorship to stifle dissent. This is not good enough, England!

  4. Hugh Fitzgerald says

    Sep 21, 2019 at 10:29 am

    How many people have been injured or killed by “right-wing extremists” in the U.K. since 2000?
    How many people have been injured or killed by Muslim terrorists in the U.K. since 2000?

    No further questions, M’Lud.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 22, 2019 at 12:26 am

      Exactly.

  5. jayell says

    Sep 21, 2019 at 10:45 am

    “Counter-terrorism top dog says that the fastest-growing terror threat is from “far right”….”

    Depends on what you call the ‘far right’. From the current UK Establishment’s ‘leftist’ point of view, everything is to the ‘right’ including anything that any sane person would normally deem to be ‘in the middle’ – although there are certainly some dubious characters coming out of the woodwork at the extreme end. Whilst recognising that this is a fast-growing phenomenon, Basu predictably fails to acknowledge that this is because the vast silent majority have remained exactly like that – silent – for far too long in the face of unprecedented provocation from certain recently-arrived elements in the UK who have shown them grotesquely poor respect over the past few decades. So it’s the chickens coming home to roost, or a delayed pay-back time if you like, and the only way they’ll stop it is to step up the systematic repression and media brain-washing that they’ve increasingly been indulging in recently in a clumsy attempt to preempt this this sort of development. The trouble is that some of the ugly realities of the UK’s ‘multicultural nirvana’ are now clearly on display in the public domain via the grooming-gang and islamic terrorist court cases etc, and this plus the increasing public awareness of all the appalling official cover-ups and blatantly transparent ‘liberal’ propaganda are only going to stiffen opposition to any stronger ‘remedial’ action, which in turn might turn out to be extremely unwise bearing in mind the collapsing public respect for the now-politicised and discredited UK police. And what with the Brexit fiasco, the UK establishment seem to have painted themselves into a very difficult corner: it will be very interesting to see how they seriously propose getting out of it.

  6. James Lincoln says

    Sep 21, 2019 at 11:10 am

    jayell,

    You are correct regarding the current definition of “far-right”.

    What was once considered a centrist position is now considered to be “far-right”.

    The needle has move that far…

  7. MARTE N NICHOLS says

    Sep 21, 2019 at 11:46 am

    UK is going to be forced to do exactly what Japan does if it wishes to survive!

  8. Angemon says

    Sep 21, 2019 at 11:54 am

    “As a proportion of our overall threat it’s definitely increasing, whereas the Islamist threat is staying the same, albeit at a very high level.”

    Disingenuous little s***…

    Asked whether the police’s approach to right-wing threats has changed in recent years, he said: “I would say that some of the criticism that we did not look at white supremacist, right-wing violence as terrorism in the past is probably justified.”

    So, about them grooming gangs…

  9. Peter says

    Sep 21, 2019 at 1:00 pm

    The more the U.K. appeases Islam and Muslim supremacists, the more likely there will be a countervailing reaction from patriotic Britons, irrespective of whether really “far right,” who are prepared to actively defend their way of life from Quislings such as this idiot and their self-destructive policies.

  10. Michael Copeland says

    Sep 21, 2019 at 1:43 pm

    Mr. Basu is making it increasingly difficult for him to be taken seriously.

  11. The unexpected voice says

    Sep 21, 2019 at 3:03 pm

    No. The fastest groowing terror is Islam.

  12. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Sep 21, 2019 at 4:32 pm

    Basu is an Indian (Bengal) and Bangladeshi surname. It is an epithet of Shiva the Destroyer of Worlds.

  13. tgusa says

    Sep 21, 2019 at 6:25 pm

    The koran created the Islamic jihad plots. If they do exist, by their actions/inaction, the so-called authorities have created the rest. I have a name for them but it is too vulgar to write here.

  14. Ginger says

    Sep 21, 2019 at 7:42 pm

    any country who lets muslims in their country is in for a hell of a time. Read the muslim brotherhood strategic plan for America dated 5/22/1991. It is one of their plans to destroy our country from within. thanks to obamasshole, they had free rein to do whatever they wanted;no questions asked. now we see the ignorance and stupidity of that decision. muslims must assimilate or get the hell out. they are dead weight in our society and totally worthless.

  15. libertyORdeath says

    Sep 21, 2019 at 8:32 pm

    The reason that true far right extremism is growing is due to the policies of unending immigration and forced multiculturalism. They don’t even seem to realize that this problem is of their own making. When you allow an endless stream of “economic migrants” who happen to be about 90% military aged men (aged 18-40) who refuse to work and insist on living off of the taxes of real citizens, you are creating an unbearable situation for many. The fact that a small number of these disaffected people choose to react violently is really no surprise.

  16. gravenimage says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 12:28 am

    UK: Counter-terrorism top dog says that the fastest-growing terror threat is from “far right”
    ………………

    Notice that they never cite any of this ‘right wing terror’–maybe they’re talking about Tommy Robinson non-violently objecting to Muslim rape gangs.

  17. Marigold says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 2:54 am

    Peter hits the nail on the head.The more the police,polititians etc. pander to the Muslims every demand the likelihood of a popular ‘far right’ movement will become inevitable especially among young British men.They will gain many sympathisers too amongst the general population because in post Christian Britain there is no ethos to guide them excepts patriotism.
    The government should be letting Muslims know that when in Britain they do what the British do not what they want to do because it has never been a Muslim country.

  18. Paul J says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 3:10 am

    The fastest growing threat of terrorism in the UK are the Metro Police themselves due to their pandering of and to the GREATEST terrorism threat; Islam. They are the Enemy within. Like most police forces in the West.

  19. Dawne Swift says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 5:45 am

    So Basu himself says that right wing extremism constitutes approximately 10% of the extremist threats they deal with, but it constitutes nearly a third of the plots foiled by police and security services since 2017.

    Surely this very shows that the UK police and security services are concentrating their efforts disproportionately on the right wing extremist threat, to the detriment of pursuing the Jihadi extremist threat and the left wing extremist threat?

  20. Maureen Roberts says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 6:20 am

    Meanwhile an article in breitbart london says it all about thecorrupt police in the UK ,and how ceratain people do not pose a threat ” UK NO CHARGES , for Musi taxi driver who threatened to sodomise Christian converts , in viral video .

  21. Kerry Wade says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 7:23 am

    Basu’s doublespeak betrays his real agenda – jihad. He’s a security risk and in wartime he’d be assassinated. But we’re not at war with jihad are we Basu, so a moron like you gets to spill verbal diarrhea all over the public?

  22. Phil Copson says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 7:30 am

    “UK: Counter-terrorism top dog says….”
    ————————————————–
    Well, we’re not going to get very far with this approach to countering Islamic-extremism, are we ? Surely everybody knows by now that muslims don’t like dogs ? (not even talking ones…..)

  23. Rueben_Singh says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 7:37 am

    Nail Basu is a moslem. End of.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 23, 2019 at 1:41 am

      No, he’s not Muslim. He is a dhimmi tool, though.

  24. terry sullivan says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 9:27 am

    sounds like basu is a moslem?

    he should not be in the job

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 23, 2019 at 1:49 am

      His parents are Christian and Hindu.

  25. terry sullivan says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 11:53 am

    remember mac chishti? another moslem in charge of counter-terrorism?

  26. Badger O'Stripey-One says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 12:43 pm

    Imagine what England would be like if Tony Blair, Jack straw and Barbara Roche had not plotted the uncontrolled immigration of muslims with the deliberate intent to change British society. I would still be living in the Whitechapel I first moved into in 1984, 100% white working class British people, overwhelmingly English and mostly cockneys.

    Today my immediate neighbourhood is literally 95% muslim. No one asked any of us left if we wanted this. All the cockneys are now gone and forever. A part of London’s heritage destroyed like those familiar Victorian town houses demolished to make room for inhuman high rise ‘machines for living in.’

    This police chief is part of our problem. He is one of the traitors to our society who deflect criticism of the real problem, which is islam, onto a mythical ‘far right’ that no one can define.

    We cannot convert muslims to the British way of life. The koran commands them not too. Best to concentrate our defence not against islamic jihad but against those in our midst who preach the idea of islam as a peaceful religion. It is they, not the crazed zealots who follow the prophet but politicians, media staffers, police chiefs and academicians, even generals in our army, but most of all those non-muslims who all know ‘one good muslim,’ those we work and live with, those we chat to in cafes and pubs, those who have swallowed the myth of the Religion of Peace.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 23, 2019 at 1:52 am

      Awful, Badger.

  27. Jan Disher says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 5:38 pm

    He should not be in that position!

  28. Christopher Kelley says

    Sep 22, 2019 at 11:30 pm

    So: WHO appointed this man, Basu, “Destroyer of Worlds”? What is the duration of such appointment?
    How is he “terminated”? Who is in charge to Remove him & Discharge him?
    Or was he appointed by the Muslim Mayor of (once glorious) Londontown?
    Wake Up, England! The “Trojan Horse” is in your midst.

  29. NZBloke says

    Sep 23, 2019 at 1:53 am

    This parody clip says it all:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RcWk640Rjq0

    Mr Basu hasn’t got a clue.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 23, 2019 at 1:59 am

      Very funny!

  30. jca reid says

    Sep 23, 2019 at 7:42 am

    He’s right you know. However, how does he describe Islam? It is Anti-Semitic, (always has been & ALWAYS will be). So was Hitler & the Nazis. Arab Muslims openly supported Nazi Germany & Nazis, before during & after WW2. It was al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Palestine, who spent the entire war in Berlin, spouting off pro-Nazi propaganda, who put the idea of the “Final Solution” into the minds of the Nazi hierarchy. They wanted to ship them off to Madagascar. When the war was going well for the Nazis in the Desert Campaign. There were plans to wipe out the Jews in the Middle East. To speed it up Arabs went & massacred 1500Jews in Damascus, Syria. It took 1-2days for the British Army to restore order & the remainder of the Jews fled to Palestine. Islam is supremacist & Racist. So , that makes it Right – Wing, doesn’t it? Imagine calling a black African or indeed an African American a “Raisinhead”. It’s in the hadiths. That’s what Mohammed called Black Africans. Imagine if a white English Northern comedian had used that term. The furore it would cause. This tube of a Senior Police Officer is clueless. PC gone mad. It’s the only way he’s risen to the highest ranks.

  31. Tay says

    Sep 24, 2019 at 3:23 am

    Maybe… Just maybe…. these Right wing extremists are sick to death of British politicians, police, schools, employers, etc etc… pandering to Muslims, and protecting Islam from absolutely ANYTHING rightfully written or said about its own hatred towards non-Muslims and anything non-islamic.

    If Muslims weren’t pandered to, and weren’t allowed to get away with the shit they say and do, , and Islam wasn’t given preferential treatment over all other religions… there probably wouldn’t be any right wing extremism.

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