But never fear, the intrepid Dominic Raab tells us that Britain’s security services are “taking the fight online” to terrorists and “degrading their network by dismantling their lies.”
Can you imagine what a fiasco that is? British security agents, thoroughly indoctrinated with fictions about Islam being a religion of peace, go online and tell Muslim youth that the Islamic State (ISIS) is telling “lies” and is un-Islamic because Islam teaches peace and tolerance, or because the Islamic State commits violence in the name of Islam, or because it kills innocent people in the name of Islam, or because it resorts to violence even thought it hasn’t been attacked, or because its jihadis take infidel women as sex slaves, or because it teaches that jihad has to do with warfare, or some such. All these actions and others of the Islamic State can be and are justified by Islamic texts and teachings, as ISIS’ own literature repeatedly reminds us. The result of this is that the British agents’ appeal to these Muslim young people on Islamic grounds is foredoomed to fail, because if those young people have even a rudimentary knowledge of Islam, they will know that what the agents are saying is what is really un-Islamic. But the agents themselves don’t know that, and are abjectly ill-equipped to deal with it.
Raab meanwhile claims that British officials are fighting against ISIS “with total vigour and determination.” In reality, the Johnson government is inundating the country with Muslim migrants, among whom there is an unknowable number of Islamic jihadis, without making any attempt to determine if any of them are actually jihadis. It is smearing and stigmatizing people who oppose jihad violence and Sharia oppression. It is devoting resources to prosecuting “anti-Muslim hate crimes” that consist of someone saying rude things to a Muslim.
Britain is finished. Dominic Raab and the Boris Johnson government are just the latest millstone around its neck.
“ISIS grooming youngsters online during lockdown,” by Thomas Harding, The National, March 4, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
Children are being exposed to ISIS terrorism online during lockdown, raising fears of brainwashing, the British Foreign Secretary said.
The rise of violent internet indoctrination is at a “critical moment”, Dominic Raab told Parliament, and security services were fighting hard to combat the threat.
He told of the terrorists’ rising global influence, with armed groups in Africa and Asia adopting its violent methods.
But the biggest worry was the “perfect storm” of young people stuck indoors during lockdown, and going online to relieve their boredom where they were subjected to extremist indoctrination.
A 7 per cent rise in the volume of terrorist content online was recorded in the last year. “This is because terrorists have digital access to those who are probably the most susceptible to extremist narratives,” Mr Raab said. “And we can see a worrying rise in the proportion of children and teenagers that are now being arrested for terrorism offences.”
He said the UK is tackling the group’s propaganda “head on”.
But he warned the terror group is “still able to carry out lethal attacks” and it remains the UK’s “most significant terrorist threat” both at home and abroad.
With its terrorist operations in Iraq and Syria curbed, ISIS turned to the internet to promote its violent ideology. “It is more and more reliant on its perverse propaganda and warped narrative to try and maintain its relevance and cement support for its terrorist attacks,” Mr Raab said. “Daesh maintains a steady drumbeat of violent communications, which they distribute with encrypted messaging applications.”
Working alongside the Global Coalition Against Daesh, the British security arms of MI6, GCHQ and the Ministry of Defence were carrying out “a range of targeted and effective offensive cyber operations”.
The cyber teams helped to disrupt battlefield communications, destabilise terrorist ranks, helping coalition forces surprise ISIS and “ultimately overwhelm them”.
The foreign secretary said Britain’s security services were “taking the fight online” to terrorists and “degrading their network by dismantling their lies”….
He described the fight with ISIS as an “attritional battle” that was “often invisible to the public or in the media but it is absolutely essential that we’re approaching it with total vigour and determination”….
Yeah, sure you are, tough guy. In reality, your government is in full-on surrender and appeasement mode.
Dude says
We need to preach from the last book of the New Testament, The Book of RAMBO, in which one is clearly instructed to cut off the heads of Bible-deniers, to rape them, to rob them and to turn them into your slaves.
It’s in The Book – no bad karma, dude.
Raja says
Dude,
Rambo, the book is in the figment of your imagination.
But yes, even the “vilest” of the kafirs are slowing waking up to the Islamic strategy. I once saw a Youtube file, wherein a Kafir said in a “debate’ : We also know to kill. I am glad people are seeing the evil design and plan of Islam.
gravenimage says
Very funny, Dude.
mortimer says
The vile, primitive, simple-minded fascism of “Dude” is not only repulsive, but has no association with a human rights organization like JihadWatch. The political ideology of “Dude” was condemned and punished at Nuremberg. I call on other JihadWatchers to join me in the strongest condemnation.
Infidel says
The only vile and repulsive person here is Mortimer
Ecosse1314 says
You have no credibility Mortimer. You never explain where your very dubious statistics come from. You have condemned the crusades. Now you want us to stand with you.
Infidel says
Mortimer is no different from the average Twitter woketivists who try to get anybody and everybody cancelled – from merely getting banned online to losing their jobs. Yet we’re expected to take his side just b’cos he issues perfunctory condemnations of jihadists in every thread, while taking pains to dilute his message at every possible opportunity
gravenimage says
Mortimer, how is joking–facetiously poking fun at the idea that Christianity (with the obviously silly “Book of Rambo”) is like Islam–condemned at Nuremberg?
Nazis were on trial there, not Spike Jones or the Bugs Bunny cartoonists.
Infidel says
Good news today – Nigel Farage has retired from politics, so hopefully, there is an opportunity for Britain First, UKIP, For Britain, Reform and Reclaim to merge under one, sensible, leader who can pose a credible challenge to the Conservatives. (My choice would be Tommy Robinson)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/03/07/farage-quits-electoral-politics-but-battle-against-communist-china-and-woke-brigade-continues/
James Lincoln says
Interesting idea, Infidel.
Hopefully there would also be some place for people like Gerard Batten and Lord Pearson…
Raja says
Good Idea Infidel,
I wonder if Tommy Robinson is a political material ?
But with God all things are possible.
Infidel says
Raja, Tommy is a grassroots person, which is what is needed. The Tories are done: after watching Priti Patel in action, my faith in them is gone! (She’s the supposed embodiment of Thatcher, and yet everything since she became Home Secretary has been a disaster!)
Terry Gain says
IIRC, Tommy, whom I greatly admire got less than 3% of the vote when he ran for the European Parliament a few years ago. Britain will need to hit rock bottom before it realizes it is being conquered.
I recall watching Piers Morgan interviewing Tommy a few years ago. Tommy was criticizing Islam. Morgan wouldn’t let him go on. He kept saying, “but you’re criticizing their religion”.
Infidel says
Piers Morgan is a fraud. I was never taken in by his so-called support to President Trump. Same goes for Christopher Hitchens, and other charlatans who equate(d) islam w/ other religions
If Britain needs to go down further, they may as well stay there, and sleep w/ the fishes. Given their historic role in aiding and abetting the perseverance of islam, be it events like the Crimean war, interfering in the collapse of the Mughal empire, their alliance w/ the Arabs w/ Lawrence of Arabia and so on, maybe it’s just as well. My heart goes out to the innocent girls who’re routinely raped in the Ummah Kaliphate, but aside from them, there seems little reason to root for a country that’s fervently dedicated to its own destruction. Maybe Boris Johnson can ask Imran Khan whether he’d be okay w/ accepting the UK as Pakistan’s 5th or 6th or 7th province (how ever they are counting it)
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
You are right about Piers Morgan.
A fake, a phony, and a fraud…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDtsNf3EwgI
Terry Gain says
Infidel and James Lincoln
Yes, Piers Morgan is an intellectual lightweight. But his opinion that it is impermissible to criticize religions is a majority opinion. This is why I say Islam is not a religion. It is a conquest ideology. If Islam was not a threat to democracies I would have no interest in Islam.
gravenimage says
Sadly, Piers Morgan is a fool.
Infidel says
Terry, I tend to agree w/ you. Normally, I’d have no problems accepting the contention of Gravenimage and Wellington that islam is an evil religion, but that concept seems alien to a majority of people in the west, except for people who’re already militant atheists and communists. So once one accepts that it’s a religion, the ‘evil’ aspect of it is quickly glossed over
Also, reading Ali Sina’s commentary once about the attributes of a cult and a religion and how islam satisfies all the attributes of a cult (which even most cults don’t, I think it’s more accurate to describe islam as a geopolitical cult: it has the attributes one would find in Communism and Nazism, and it has the attributes that one would expect w/ the Branch Davidians, Jonestown and Heavensgate cults. Which is what makes it so unique
https://www.faithfreedom.org/islam-cult-or-religion/
Terry Gain says
Infidel
You have hit the nail on the head. Atheists consider Islam to be a religion because they reject the concept of religion, which is to connect us to God, not the devil. An evil religion is a contradiction in terms.
But I think Islam is more than a cult. It is a well thought out conquest ideology. Conquest is in fact its raison d’être. Referring to itself as a religion gives Islam both a recruitment tool and a shield from intellectual attack.
Those who refer to Islam as a religion are not thinking strategically. Islam’s goal is conquest. Islam is the enemy of western civilization. It is foolish to invite this enemy into your country and then handicap your ability to challenge its absurd doctrines.
Religions have a special place in the American psyche. Acceptance of Islam’s claim to be a religion immunizes Islam from a proper consideration of Islam’s doctrine and history. Islam is a political, conquest ideology which opposes freedom of religion and freedom of conscience. Granting it the status and protection of a religion is naive and foolish.
Giacomo Latta says
”Atheists consider Islam to be a religion because they reject the concept of religion”
Terry,
I am an atheist because I don’t believe in ghosts. If a poll anywhere in the West asked the question, is it possible for any entity obsessed with killing 80% of the world’s population to be simultaneously a religion I believe the answer would be a resounding No. Nevertheless, we have charters, constitutions and laws that give special status to any group that calls itself a religion without asking the above question. Thus, step one is to stop referring to Islam as anything but a death cult bent on world domination.
Infidel says
Terry
That’s why I qualified the term ‘cult’ w/ the adjective ‘geopolitical’: like Communism had the concept of world revolution (which was a glorified way of stating ‘conquest from within’), islam has world conquest as its goal. That’s why it’s so uniquely a combination of ideologies like Communism and cults like Branch Davidian
James Lincoln says
Terry Gain,
Perhaps wrongfully, the IRS believes that islam is a religion.
And that may be part of the problem…
Mosques enjoy section 501(c)(3) status:
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/credits-and-deductions/help/what-is-a-qualified-charitable-organization/00/26938
Wellington says
I understand your point, Infidel, that the idea of an evil religion is alien to many in the West but just because something is alien sounding to a majority of people doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Moreover, as steep a hill as it is to climb to convince people that Islam is an evil religion, I think it quite arguable that convincing people Islam is not a religion at all will be EVEN more difficult. Ah, sometimes, life leaves you with no good option.
gravenimage says
Terry, the claim that it is only Atheists who acknowledge that Islam is a religion is mistaken.
As I have pointed out umpteen times, Islam is a religion by definition:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/religion
The definition of religion says nothing about whether the creed is either good or true.
As for cult, a cult is simply a small religion–Islam by its size is not a cult. And the word “cult” is only seen as a negative due to the spate of ugly and harmful cults during the 1960s and ’70s. There is nothing intrinsically malignant about a small faith.
As I have also pointed out, religions have *not* always been benignant. The worship of Baal was anything but, as was the faith of the Aztecs, both of which involved human sacrifice.
And the idea that religions cannot be criticized is mistaken–Christianity and Judaism are regularly looked at critically. That Islam seldom is has more to do with “political correctness” and self hatred in the West than it does to the idea that religions cannot be scrutinized.
gravenimage says
Nigel Farage has sometimes been a disappointment, but he has been reliably more Anti-Jihad than most leaders. Not sure his leaving the field is actually a good thing.
Infidel says
He’s not anti-jihad at all: if anything, he’s gone out of his way to ensure that the Brexit and other sentiments against immigration don’t mix w/ anti-islamic sentiments. Show me one time he’s spoken out against the grooming gangs. I recall him on FBN refusing to comment on an observation by Stuart Varney about Mohammed being the most common boys name among newborns in the UK. Then there is his splitting UKIP over Ann Marie Waters and Tommy Robinson.
He happens to be right about Brexit and opposition to the woke culture, but that’s about it!
Michael Copeland says
What “we absolutely must do”, insists Mr. Farage, is to “get the vast majority of muslims on our side against the bad guys.”
No deal, Mr. Farage. Learning curve needed. The “vast majority of muslims” are not available. Islam has walled them off: they are only permitted to be on Islam’s side and to do what Islam instructs.
From:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/05/farages-fatal-flaw/
gravenimage says
Infidel wrote:
Show me one time he’s spoken out against the grooming gangs.
……………………..
Here you go:
Nigel Farage on Twitter: “Attacks by grooming gangs across the North of England on underage white girls are racist crimes. This fact has been hidden for far too long…”
https://twitter.com/nigel_farage/status/895748380869242881?lang=en
I agree that he should do more–but he is still better than many.
mortimer says
British public discourse is ambiguous: on the one hand they tell one another that civility is important, but on the other hand, they all engage in frivolous, ironic slurs back and forth. Whoever bests his opponents in sly vituperation wins the debate in Britain. They are all concerned with sparing the feelings of Muslims, even when the underground and Parliament are attacked. They never use their famous irony against Islam.
Michael Copeland says
Memo to Dominic Raab and HM Government:
All the “violent internet indoctrination ….extremist indoctrination … extremist narratives ….violent ideology ….perverse propaganda and warped narrative” have something in common. They are ordinary basic Islam, plain old Strike-at-the-neck Islam, Kill-them-wherever-you-find-them Islam, as preached by Mohammed.
Raja says
Michael,
Your comment say it all.
Terry Gain says
Not just preached, but as practiced by Muhammad, the self-described role model, who claims he received revelations from the same angel that visited the BVM, which contradicted what he had told Her.
A religion? Surely Muhammad lied. It is however ingenious as a conquest ideology as it is protected as a religion and it will succeed so long as it is regarded as a religion rather than a pack of evil, incoherent lies.
Michael Copeland says
IT’S – ALL OF IT – JUST ISLAM
No, no, no, Mr. R.,
It’s – all of it – just Islam.
Not “warped, twisted, perverted, fanatical,
misunderstood, extreme”,
not “hi-jacked, Islamist, terrorist, violent” –
But ordinary normal Islam,
Plain, old, basic, predictable,
True-to-Koran Islam,
“Strike-at-their-necks” Islam,
“Kill-them-wherever-you-find-them” Islam.
It’s – all of it – just Islam.
James Lincoln says
Correct, Michael.
I call it “plain-vanilla” islam, no added toppings necessary…
terry sullivan says
boris has turkish blood?
born saturday says
yes mate he is quarter turkish and visited his grandfathers village in turkey before…. he is also known for his pro turkish approach on many issues…
Wellington says
The photo kinda’ says it all.
RichardL says
the Uk is gone, was gone a long time ago. Switzerland, on the other hand, outlawed minarets in 2009 and yesterday the niqab and the burka have been voted on: no place in Switzerland. They should also outlaw the Jesuits (a Marxist sect with the Church) again – they became legal only in the 1920, after being outlawed for a long time.
jca reid says
Islam is Extreme ! Its doctrine is to promote Banditry, slavery & Totalitarianism. Just look at Mohammed’s conduct ! He was a Mass Murderer, a Rapist, a Paedophile, liar, Thief, a Necrophile & the rest. Muslims hold him up as a role Model & his conduct to be copied.
What a waste of lots of University Educations on these prats who are in denial what Islam is all
Raja says
My compliments to JW staff for putting up a snap of a Clueless buffoon. As an ex-journalist, thanks to Chinese corona, I am reminded of the adage: A picture is worth a thousand words.
James Lincoln says
The UK is in very deep trouble – and it makes me wonder:
Has Queen Elizabeth II violated her oath of office?
In the Coronation ceremony of 2 June 1953, in one part the Archbishop asked:
Archbishop:
“Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? Will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established in England? And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them?”
Queen:
“All this I promise to do.”
https://www.royal.uk/coronation-oath-2-june-1953
Terry Gain says
Queen Elizabeth, most of the Prime Ministers since Churchill, and Obama and Biden. There is a long line of oath breakers.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Terry.
gravenimage says
UK: Foreign Secretary warns that Islamic State is recruiting young people with ‘extremist indoctrination’ online
……………..
This is not “exteremism”–it is orthodox Islam.
And why would this savagery appear so attractive to Muslim young people if they were not so often being indoctrinated with this barbariam by their parents, Imams, and friends?
Jayell says
What’s all this then? ‘Islamic State is recruiting young people with ‘extremist indoctrination’ online….’
So the conscientious, caring UK Government, ever watchful, honest and mindful of its duties towards its own people, has just now discovered that some of these these peaceful, enriching muslims are planning to do some nasty things in the UK? My goodness, whoever would have believed it? Why, the next thing they’ll be discovering is that the good, pious Disciples of the Great Prophet might be planting explosive devices in public places or systematically sexually abusing thousands of young English girls for their own entertainment? (Oh silly me, they DID actually know all about of that, but they were so worried about upsetting everyone’s sensibilities with that last bit in particular that they let it go on for well over 20 years, still can’t bring themselves to release the official report, and even tried to shield everyone from the horrible truth by organising media character-assassinations of celebrities, including famous Christian pop stars, to divert everyone’s attention from the court cases! Isn’t it so VERY nice to know that we in the UK can depend on such an exemplary, honourable establishment!!)
mortimer says
Raab sounds naïve. He claims “the fight with ISIS as an “attritional battle””.
It will not be ‘attritional’ unless he engages in IDEOLOGICAL WARFARE against Islam as an ideology. No Muslim will ever be convinced that JIHAD isn’t a PILLAR of Islam. There are 164 jihadic verses in the Koran.
You have to convince Muslims that the Koran is a human-made book in order to convince them to stop jihad. When Muslims realize the Koran is of human origin, they leave jihad instantly.
gravenimage says
You’ve made this claim before–but pious Muslims do not generaly pay attention to what the “filthy Infidels” have to say.