Once again the abject failure of the British response to the jihad terror threat is illustrated, but nothing will change. The usual condemnations will be issued, the usual candlelight vigils will be held, politicians will issue the usual vows to crush terrorism, and everything will go on as before until the next jihad attack.
“LIVE: London Bridge knife attacker known to police and had links to terror groups,” Sky News, November 29, 2019:
What we know so far about the terror attack
Sky News’ foreign editor Deborah Haynes says it is believed the attacker was linked to Islamist terrorism.
She added: “It’s not yet known whether that’s potentially Islamic State, potentially Al Qaeda, potentially another group.”
The attacker was a convicted terrorist who had recently been released from prison and was wearing an electronic tag, according to The Times
The report added that he was a guest at a Cambridge University conference on prisoner rehabilitation at Fishmongers’ Hall – where the attack began – and later threatened to blow up the venue.
It went on to quote unnamed Whitehall sources as saying the attacker had been released from prison around a year ago after serving time for a “terrorism-related offence”, and had agreed to wear an electronic tag.
The attacker was known to police and had links to Islamist terror groups, according to a security source quoted by the Press Association…
R. Scratton says
All together now! “Slip inside the eye of your mi-i-ind…” ???
Ashley says
The attacker was a convicted terrorist who had recently been released from prison and was wearing an electronic tag, according to The Times.
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What is the use of an electronic tag if a convicted terrorist is capable of stepping out to the public and stabbing folks?
gravenimage says
Good question. Ashley.
How many times have we heard this, now? That the Jihadist was “known to police” or even “under surveillance”–yet was still free to wage violent Jihad on us? Any Jihadist should be in prison or deported after their sentence.
Merri-joy says
I agree +1
Anne Smith says
Unfortunately there is probably nowhere to deport him to, as he will be British born.
Carole Brown says
I`m pleased he is now eliminated! At least he can`t hurt anymore people!
David says
Actually the current terrorist has been British-killed, which is surely the best outcome. Does away with the dilemma of what to do with him.
melek-ric says
“The report added that he was a guest at a Cambridge University conference on prisoner rehabilitation at Fishmongers’ Hall – where the attack began – and later threatened to blow up the venue.”
I feel guilty, but I couldn’t help laughing out loud when I read this bit. Obviously he was the very model of a rehabilitated jihadi.
Norger says
Indeed. One wonders if Cambridge University will recognize the object lesson it has bee given here. More likely, anyone who expresses any cynicism about “rehabilitating” jihadis will be labeled an “Islamophobe.”
David says
The greatest of all deceivers? He wore a model of a suicide vest! Bang up-to-date.
He has made the authorities look like the fools that they are. How did he manage to go to the meeting with a knife and a suicide vest? Did you notice the knife that was carried away by a man was clean of blood? Strange.
Save Europe says
Andrew Parker’s ‘group’, yet again proving how useless they are at providing internal protection.
Jayell says
JW readers will.probably be unaware that a UK MP who had been convicted for perversion of the law was let out of prison early with a tag and allowed to place a casting vote in the House of Commons on a matter that overturned a pro-Brexit motion, thus thwarting the democratic will of the British people. I think it’s safe to say that the entire UK establishmenr is quite clearly bent as a nine-pound note, which obviously accounta for the mess that the country is in.
Shaun Crewe says
+1
Govanite says
Apparently the electronic tag did not fail because the terrorist had sought and been given permission to attend a rehabilitation course in London. In these circumstances the tag alarm would have gone off but the probation officer monitoring it would have ignored it as he had given permission for the terrorist to leave his restricted movement area in Stoke on Trent, a town c 120 miles north of London. Stoke is chalk a block full of mohamedans as I observed on a recent visit there on a Friday. Hundreds of them walking back from the terror centres, aka mosques in Middle East clothing and white skull caps. Very eerie! So the convicted terrorists like the pos Khan now have a new game to evade their so called monitored movements – simply ask to attend a rehabilitation course.
Its going to take a whole lot more murders by muslims before the British people rise up in righteous anger against their libtard politically correct politicians and demand removal by force of these unwelcome cultural misfits back to where their family come from – mostly Pakistan. There simply isn’t enough publicity about the true nature of islam to convince them of the totally evil nature of islam and too much propaganda support by the likes of Saudi money propagating takia and anti islamaphobia to convince the base UK population of the need to take compelling action.
gravenimage says
He was a convicted terrorist:
“London Bridge: Attacker who killed two was convicted terrorist who was wearing a tag – latest news”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/29/london-bridge-reports-gunshots-central-london/
mortimer says
Only two terrorist wear an gps bracelet, whereas over 20,000 have been identified.
The bracelet didn’t stop this determined jihadist. How many more are equally determined?
But the authorities care more about those who criticize Islamic terrorism.
Jayell says
Quote from Met Police CommissOioner Cressida Dick’s statement to the press:-
“We are also working at full-tilt to understand exactly what has happened……..”
OK, shall we all tell her? Or are she and her chum Mayor Khan trying to work out how to avoid stating the ‘bl**ding obvious’ (to quote John Cleese) so that they don’t put their own necks on the line and avoid upsetting ‘certain people’s’ delicate sensitivities. Never mind that ‘certain people’ seem to be doing just a little bit more than simply upsetting a few million others’ sensitivities – which presumably aren’t quite ‘delicate’ enough to bother Dick and Khan too much. Also interesting is a statement from a security expert that apparently the UK police are having to try to keep tabs on over 20,000 suspected terrorists in the UK apart from the more obvious ones like the piece of pseudo-human social pollution that caused this latest piece of multicultural live action. And Khan spends £millions on trawling the internet for people who say naughty things about his many friends of another persuasion! According to the wisdom of many in the UK (especially London) neither Khan nor Dick she be in their jobs. And, to judge by their words, behaviour and actions, there are quite a few million more who shouldn’t be in the UK.
Yohanan says
haha – “working at ‘full tilt’ to understand…” London police don’t need full power, full speed, full attention. They need theirchief Cressida Dick to open her eyes half way to see jihadi Islam in their door.
Full tilt – is her appropriate word choice. To be angled, biased, almost toppling, tottering as derived from joisting. For the idiom’s derivation, etymology see –
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/full-tilt.html
Will Cambridge Criminology and Learning Together add terrorism of radical Islam to their agendas? Wishful thinking.
David says
Ah, Cressida Dick-head of the Police. She who had Jean-Charles de Menenez killed on a train. he was completely innocent.
Juan says
The major of London should be held responsible.
somehistory says
A show of shocked emoticons for all who are surprised.
He was a “guest” at the function. Guess the food wasn’t to his liking or perhaps he just felt like it was a go-jihading-day and so he went.
He can now be on a different ‘list.’ The newest on the list of the dead terrorists. And…it really doesn’t matter which group…al queda, or isis, or boko haram, or on the board of the muslim brohood…they are all the same, working for the same source, for the same goals…and a murdering they go. satan is so pleased, he is giddy with demonic glee.
lisa says
Another attacker in Hague. About 30 minutes ago…
dumbledoresarmy says
It’s a Friday… ‘Nuff said.
gravenimage says
+1
Tom says
And Trudeau wants to bring back Jihadists to Canada as he said they will be a great example for their communities.
This attacker will be spun as a one off who got through the system but any thinking person knows that a Jihadist is always a threat no matter what politicians and security “experts” tell us.
Spartan says
Yes that is Trudeau. Remember the muslim who killed people on the Danforth? Before he got to that area he stumbled across an Indian Hindu man whom he thought was muslim and said to the Hindu “Don’t worry I won’t shoot YOU”. The hindu man was later interviewed by a conservative news network about this but the mainstream media left it out. The muslim purposely went to the Danforth because its where he would find Christians and other infidels. Trudeau did his best to downlplay that as he did when Canadians (Catholic Church attack) were killed in Burkina Faso , Trudeau went to a muslim mosque in Canada to show his support of Islam but he did NOT visit the Catholic Church where the dead Canadians were being mourned. He truly is a piece of garbage.
John W. says
Queue up the stories about how he was a lone wolf. And the other ones about innocent muslims cowering in fear because of the expected right wing backlash. And then of course the real evil in the world, Islamophobia..
Lotus says
Yes, so many ‘lone wolves’.
Q: What do you call a pack of lone wolves?
A: A pack of wolves.
simpleton1 says
A well known wolf running with a well known ideology on a well known jihad program of practising terror over 1400 years.
Shaun Crewe says
+1
David says
I prefer the term: Islamiloathia. By the way, a stony silence from the muslim ‘community’.
Daniel Triplett says
Sad. The British are so much better than this. We owe the modern civilized World to them. We’re all in it together. Americans are born unto them. But somewhere, beginning pre-1776, they veered disastrously off the tracks.
They’re our closest ally. In the end, we’ll either win it together, or lose it together.
Savvy Kafir says
I agree. We cannot give up on the UK — or any other Western nation, for that matter. But certainly not Britain. We all should be supporting Anne Marie Waters’ For Britain party: the UK’s only hope, short of an armed insurrection.
Merri-joy says
Support Britain First – they are heroes!
gravenimage says
Agree, Daniel.
Christopher Watson says
Our politicians and those in authority repeat endlessly that we must behave in a manner conducive to a free democracy and treat these terrorists as if they are simply criminals. We arrest them for crimes they have committed and release them when their sentences have been served; occasionally before that date if our prisons are full. As a result, we have hundreds, if not thousands of terrorists in our midst who will kill in a heartbeat. Our governments are not doing their duties. They are not protecting their citizens; they are aiding the terrorists. The judge or official who released this Usman Khan should now be arrested and charged with aiding and abetting murder.
Boris Johnson and his ilk will scurry around for a few days and promise that things will change but in reality, nothing will be done and, in a few months there will be another atrocity and the same thing will happen; more meaningless words from the Prime Minister, and more promises.
We are behaving as if they are simply criminals, but they are not. They have declared war on the west and non-moslems or simply those who live in the west. They should be tried for treason, as befits a ‘soldier’ wearing civilian clothing, and if found guilty should face a death sentence. We should suspend our democratic and parliamentary rules; we are told we cannot afford the vast amounts of money to watch all the moslem suspects. If a moslem becomes a suspect, then he/she should be evicted from the country. All mosques should be closed or closely watched and frequently raided. Many mosques in the west are used as stores for weapons and anti-western literature. Of course, the left-wing will scream about loss of freedom and anti-democratic actions then they should be made responsible for the convicted moslem murderers or moved into mainly-moslem areas. Most left-wingers live in nice, leafy, middle-class areas far away from moslem areas.
All hijabs and women’s tents should be banned; it is too easy for a man to hide his identity wearing a complete article of clothing which hides the identity of the wearer. What other society in history has not only invited their enemies into the country, has protected them and given tham housing and an income. Are we insane?
For how long are we going to put up with this farce? We are not protected. We are facing more and more violence. The government is not making any attempt to protect us from these murderers. The end of any democracy is only a heartbeat away. If democracy must end let it be on our terms and not on the terms of our enemies.
Mark C. Lowe (@MCLowe) says
Re-arm Britons! So unfair that you are not allowed to defend yourselves.
David says
Well said, Chris! The government should be sued for dereliction of duty-of-care for its citizens.
patriotliz says
What’s the difference with this particular Muslim’s stabbing attack and all the other Muslims who have stabbed innocent people in Europe?
Older Canadian says
None.
David says
They are ‘British’ muslims! Not foreigners.
Jasonn says
How freakin’ awkward for the Muslim Mayor or Londonstan, eh? Good.
David says
” Just part and parcel of living in a big city” (yes, full of muslims)
Lotus says
Boris Johnson’s response to this attack:
// This country will never be cowed or divided or intimidated by this sort of attack and our values, our British values, will prevail. //
Would that include the ‘British value’ of not being able to criticise Islam? Only recently a Jewish gentleman was hauled out of his house and arrested for doing just that.
gravenimage says
Boris Johnson says this right after having apologized under pressure for saying anything bad about Islam…
mortimer says
The so-called British values seem to be identical to the Frankfurt School’s neo-Marxist values. What the British have wrong is placing Respect andTolerance ahead of Individual Liberty. If people cannot express what is bothering them, then there will soon be a revolution brewing.
Without freedom of expression, the people have no choice but to embrace civil disobedience and revolt.
Maureen Roberts says
Also the arrest of a young autistic man , who was dragged out of his home by police, and went through horrendous grilling at the station . Full story at you tube , title , ” the story of the bewildered man” .
Save Europe says
I am SICK of Islam!
How DARE you –
– come to our countries and murder innocent civilians.
– NOT vilify your co-religionists by saying ‘oh, they’re NOT Muslims.’ YES, they ARE.
– NOT drive your extremists out of your communities, but, of course you do NOT.
– NOT criticise anti non Muslim sentiment in YOUR own countries!
– NOT criticise rape of non Muslim women of any age! If what happened in Cologne, Rotherham etc etc had happened anywhere in a Muslim country, we would STILL be hearing about it even now!!!!
– play the race card at EVERY given opportunity! You are NOT a race of people! We have no problems with Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, Jains in the U.K. trying to kill non Muslims!!!!
I’m SICK of it !!!
mortimer says
Further to SaveEurope:
“Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas.” – Bill Maher
Save Europe says
Agreed,M ?
Daniel says
Because diversity is your strength .
David says
Die-versity
Infidel says
I nowadays seriously think that ‘prestigious educational institutions’ should be declared terrorist organizations, and disbanded. In the process, we will end the process of indoctrinating our kids and raising them to be the next Che Guevaras and Abu Nidals
One more thing I’d do – add the Ummah Kaliphate to the travel ban list
Lydia Church says
Well!
Golly gosh darn it!
Slap me silly!
What a surprise!
Related to terrorism huh?
Really?!
; D
ManchesterLad says
The BBC in the morning news have just spent twenty minutes discussing the attack by this ‘man’ (BBC-speak for ‘Muslim’) without once mentioning ‘Islam’ or ‘Muslim’.
Funny that.
Of course, had he been what the BBC call ‘far-right’ (BBC-speak for anyone who doesn’t wholeheartedly follow leftist doctrine) they would have mentioned ‘far-right’ at least every sentence, but more likely at the beginning and end of each sentence.
They are discussing it now, and they are linking it to the murder of the UK MP Jo Cox at the EU referendum in 2006 (someone who was clearly mentally ill, but to the BBC he was just far-right). I suppose they are going for the usual equivalence … sometimes far-right terrorists murder people, sometimes (Sshh we can’t use the ‘M’ word) terrorists murder people. Nothing to see here, move along now.
ManchesterLad says
Dohh (*by* someone who was clearly mentally ill….)
David says
Yes, he had Islamania.
Stewart Davies says
And once again, we have the nauseating phenomenon of halfwits taking to [anti]-social media to express their feigned outrage that the police shot and killed this demon possessed Muslim terrorist. Virtue signaling serves no purpose other than to make those who practice this hypocrisy feel good about themselves. By posturing so as to claim what they stupidly believe to be the moral high ground, they attain a sense of their own inherent superiority.
John says
We have a real problem in the uk, we have let all those people in who hate us and many want to kill us.
There are tens of thousands of potential terrorists that the authorities are watching. So in fact the ordinary public are collateral damage in this stupidity. We will not build more prisons or deport these horrible people.
This is going to happen many more times, we have been let down.
Anne Smith says
I read the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Express reports.
Not one mention of the M word. (Muslim)
Just the few mentions of ISIS and here and there the odd Islam, but no mention that the man was a Muslim terrorist, just an “alleged terrorist”.
David says
Was he an alleged muslim terrorist? I have a strong suspicion he was. The name and modus operandi all point in that direction. No shout of Allahu Akbar? How remiss of him.
Yohanan says
Good that the police did not wait to learn if his suicide vest was a dummy or not. Good that they shot dead the terrorist who had just stabbed 5 random people – murdering two. Great that bystanders had disarmed the jihadi of his bloody knife. The number of bridges and patience in London is limited.
David says
Strangely the knife did not appear to be bloody. Check the video of the man coming towards the videophone.
Kerry Wade says
This case, yet again, demonstrates the wisdom of executing convicted terrorists. It would save lives, injuries and manpower.
OLD GUY says
Prison won’t change a terrorist! The answer for convicted terrorist who cause death of others is to execute the terrorist after a swift trial and review within twelve months. Non lethal terrorist after serving their sentence should be deported directly from prison to the country they came from. We also must have closed borders. Anyone coming to this country must be vetted and come through the system to gain entry. Open borders is wonderful for tourism and business, but it is also vary dangerous from the standpoint of terrorism and illegal activities. The question rises do we want to save lives or do we want open borders? My vote is save lives, I can deal with PASSPORTS and BACKGROUND CHECKS before foreign travel. Restrictions on travel to or from countries that are a threat to our country makes sense.
David says
Unfortunately many terrorists are born in the UK. Their families mostly come from Pakistan, so they could be sent back to their relatives. Or executed.
Kepha says
Testing. Haven’t been able to post around here recently.
gravenimage says
Glad to see you back here, Kepha.
Kirsch says
Tommy Robinson imprisoned in Belmarsh for reporting on crimes, and causing anxiety in convicted pedophile jihadi rapists. This Islamic jihadist loser, set free on tagged release almost a decade before his sentence ends…Wow UK is an infected vile swamp.