A Britain in Peril
What has been apparent to many for quite some time has been addressed in an article by the economictimes. There are similar article that have raised similar concerns but this one condenses it to simple heart-of-the-matter terms.
I can already hear the crescendo of wailing and leveling of the racist™ canard by such organizations as the MCB. The MCB and other Islamic organizations, which enjoy the Western protection of liberty denied to minority religious groups wherever a Moslem majority predominates, love to promulgate the spurious notion that criticism of moslems is tantamount to "hate speech."
There’s nothing hateful about identifying those groups that have a stated goal or a history of vilifying the West and seeking to kill and maim Westerners. We just need to be honest in acknowledging and confronting our sworn enemies, even if to do so goes against the ethos of whichever political ideology we subscribe to. Sometimes the right and left dichotomy must be eschewed in favor of agreeing upon the simple difference between right and wrong. It is when we are not united against those who seriously challenge us and our way of life that we are most imperiled. UK centre of Islamist terror in Europe:Europol
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/P...how/2991115.cms
LONDON: Britain has emerged as the focal point of Islamist terror in Europe, according to Europol, the European police force. A report on terrorism by Europol has claimed that the UK reported a 30 per cent increase in arrest of terror suspects last year.
Out of 203 persons arrested in 2007 in the UK, a majority were related to Islamist terrorism. In contrast, 201 were detained in the rest of Europe. French police made 91 arrests. The number of suspects under investigation in Britain has risen from 500 in 2004 to 2,000 last year. What is worrying is that the number of arrests involved young, radicalised British muslims, sparking fears that the threat of an attack is growing.
The terrorist plots also linked to groups in Pakistan. The report comes following disclosure last week that 15 plots to attack British targets have been foiled in three years since the London bombings in which 56 people died and over 700 were injured. At the time of their arrest, all Islamist terrorism suspects were between 17 and 72 years of age. The average age was 35 years, with two-thirds of the arrested being between 23 and 43 years of age.
Over the last five years, much of the command, control and inspiration for planning attacks came from Al Qaeda's remaining core leadership in the tribal areas of Pakistan, the report said.
