It’s bad enough that the Cambridge City Council thinks that hunkering down into a permanent state of siege is the best response to the jihad threat, but even worse, some foes of the barrier dislike it because it suggests that there is a jihad threat at all. This was stated in a February 2020 editorial by Isobel Duxfield: “Jokes aside, the unattractive edifice is detrimental to our community. The barrier is not so much intended as a material defence than a means of fostering constant vigilance against an eternally immanent attack. This breeds an alarming culture of fear and hostility, which has legitimised counter-terror policies which disproportionately discriminate against religious and ethnic minorities. Indeed, as human rights group, Cage, have shown, security procedures like those found at airport security are not only ineffective, they are systematically Islamophobic. Partnered with recent growing nationalist and anti-immigration rhetoric, such measures perpetuate an ugly and dangerous xenophobia and racism.”
“Council endorses permanent counter-terrorism barrier on King’s Parade,” by Iona Fleming and Luke Hallam, Varsity, February 12, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
Cambridge City Council has endorsed a scheme to make the anti-terrorism barrier on King’s Parade permanent.
The Council’s Strategy and Resources Scrutiny Committee considered a report proposing permanent measures on Monday (08/02).
Councillors voted overwhelmingly in favour of supporting the request to Cambridgeshire County Council for Traffic Regulation Orders for the existing controls to become permanent beyond July 2021 and for their effects to be fully assessed.
The £70,000 barrier first came into operation on 16th January 2020 following police counter-terrorism advice to the Cambridge City Council. The police recommended “that steps be taken to protect the many thousands of people who use King’s Parade throughout the year, especially during the summer months,” according to a press release last week (04/02).
Other councils in tourist hotspots, including central London, Canterbury, Windsor, York and Edinburgh, were also given police counter-terrorism advice and have consequently installed “similar vehicle access controls and barriers”.
The barrier is in operation during the day between 9:30am and 7pm. It was originally intended to be a temporary measure, its operation expiring in July 2021.
Councillors also voted unanimously in the meeting to “note the outcomes of public and stakeholder engagement and consultation, and behavioural monitoring” of the traffic control measures.
The King’s Parade barrier is made up of a three-metre-wide swing gate with pairs of ballasted security barges on either side. There is also a 1.2m gap on the King’s College side for cyclists….
Meanwhile, second-year Modern and Medieval Languages (MML) student Lily Fox said: “Someone determined to cause irrevocable harm to themselves and those around them are not going to be deterred by a simple barrier.”
mortimer says
Barriers are intended to stop a threat. If anyone assumed that Islamic jihadic terrorism is a problem he/she would be correct. That’s reality. Fifty people are killed by jihad attacks around the world every day of the year.
The enablers of jihadism are useful idiots.
PRCS says
No such thing as ‘jihadism’.
Just jihad, thank you.
And ‘Islamic jihadic terrorism’?
As it is human beings who perpetrate/carry out acts of terrorism, hows ’bout we just say Muslim terrorists.
srikrishnachaitan says
UK is doomed let’s watch UK future drama with islamization
mike says
xenophobia, racism and Islamophobic, all the words from Islam that they fear. Islam demands that you respect us, Only past rerack by Islam. The Koran verses tell it’s followers to kill non followers, What ever Islam sees belongs to them.
The walls built thru history in the middle east just shows for 1400 years people have been protecting them selves from these people
Islam UNTIL you denounce the very people attracting non Muslim’s
Until you preach non violence
I will never trust you and I’m sure we have a great deal of people around the world fell the same
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Fear and hostiljty? Xenophobia and racism?
Sounds like core elements and principles of
Islam. This should make the followers of the psychopath feel right at home.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
hostility
Michael Copeland says
Memos to Isobel Duxfield:
“Islam is a religion of power, fighting, jihad, beheading and bloodshed”
– Imam Hussein Bin Mahmoud, prominent writer
http://pamelageller.com/2014/08/prominent-cleric-cleric-justifies-beheadings-islam-religion-beheading.html/#sthash.ev2ucGmz.dpuf.
“Allah also has made the blood of every kafir legal to spill, and …their wealth halal to take”.
Islamic State message after Brussels bombings
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/03/22/isis-claims-responsibility-for-brussels-attacks-quotes-islamic-law-to-justify-slaughter-of-civilians/
One further memo:
the word “immanent” means inherently remaining.
The word “imminent” is presumably the word intended, to denote “likely to happen any time very soon”.
gravenimage says
+1
Andrew says
Security at Airports today are most certainly effective as I cant remember the last time a Plane was Hijacked in years, so it is indeed a pain in the arse but we can thank the religion of piss for causing this much trouble.
I remember when going to the Airport was actually FUN… those were the days my friend, we thought they would never end…
Hoi Polloi says
Isn’t that the truth? I can remember those long gone days myself. And she says “Jokes aside,”…?? I don’t know anyone who thinks any of this is funny. But I guess that is the kind of opening we get from someone who goes on to spout the lunacies that she did.
Crusades Were Right says
Just tell the politically-correct dimwits it’s to prevent Tommy Robinson from getting into the place to give a lecture about Islam.
That should do the trick nicely! lol
Keith O says
So now protecting the populace from death and injury via a terrorist attack is “Islamophobic”?
Does that then mean that any government body that doesn’t protect it’s people from an attack through willful neglect, is guilty of failing in it’s duty of care to the tax paying public?
Ruislamicky? says
I’m sure it’s due to feeling guilty over the mass numbers of Pakistani perpetrated rapes of British women. They’re protecting the population- or controlling it(?)
gravenimage says
UK: Cambridge City Council approves permanent counter-terror barrier over objections that it’s ‘Islamophobic’
It’s bad enough that the Cambridge City Council thinks that hunkering down into a permanent state of siege is the best response to the jihad threat, but even worse, some foes of the barrier dislike it because it suggests that there is a jihad threat at all.
………….
Really, this says it all.
Check Burry says
So isabels plans are to stand still, do no prevention, till the 1st professor or student has head removed, sensible measures dont enter one tiny cell of her so called brain, better remove those barriers on London bridges too. Let the smiting commence.
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“…a February 2020 editorial by Isobel Duxfield: “…security procedures like those found at airport security are not only ineffective, they are systematically Islamophobic. Partnered with recent growing nationalist and anti-immigration rhetoric, such measures perpetuate an ugly and dangerous xenophobia and racism.”
In order to be consistent, I would suggest that Isabel Duxfield remove all locks and fences at her personal residence…