Al Qaeda’s new number-one target: Britain
posted at 3:27 pm on October 19, 2006 by Allahpundit
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The Guardian broke the story but I know people don’t always click, so here’s a video precis from the BBC courtesy of our pal kasper kasper. You really should read the article, though — especially the end, which explains the tried and true cult indoctrination methods by which the jihadist mentality is bred.
Why Britain? In a word: Pakistan. The UK has a huge number of young Muslims of Pakistani origin, many of whom travel to the old homeland to visit family. That means a fresh supply of westernized would-be jihadis on AQ’s doorstep to be brainwashed and then sent back to Britain, where they can blend in undetected. And as bad as things are now, they’re likely to get worse: according to AKI, England’s veil controversy is getting big play in the Pakistani papers, to the opportunistic delight of the country’s Islamic parties. It’s been noticed in the Balkans, too. Note well:
Miroljub Jevtic, professor at Belgrade University’s political science faculty and an expert on religion, said the veil debate was a result of the “mistaken European perception of religion and misunderstanding of Islam.”Whereas Jesus Christ was just a religious leader, and the Christian Church is separated from the state, Islam’s founder, Mohammed, was “everything – the head of state, religious leader and the supreme judge,” Jevtic told AKI.
“Secularism is foreign to Islam and Europe should understand that,” he underlined.
The face-veil is deeply rooted in the Muslim tradition and teachings and, “taken literally, those who renounce it are condemned to hell,” Jevtic, who is a Serb and an Orthodox Christian, explained. Europe was “facing a difficult task, having to choose between granting religious freedoms and traditional rights to a growing Muslim population, or ultimately to abolish itself,” he said.
“Denying such religious freedoms as the face-veil clearly violates the rights of Muslims, which are deeply rooted in Islam’s teachings. Letting it develop freely, it is in the long run sentencing itself to Islamisation,” Jevtic concluded.
Like I said the other day: intractable.
FYI, the woman at the center of the veil controversy, who was suspended from her teaching job for refusing to remove her niqab, was awarded £1,000 today by a British grievance board for “injury to feelings.”
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This is just the beginning. I think the brits would be begin to redefine what they consider to be freedom. One more attack will clear the dust remainig in thier eyes.
Ouabam on October 19, 2006 at 3:37 PM
So the evil bushitler has now sent his crony to Britian. I assume he’s planning to become the new PM after he’s impeached!
In all seriousness however,
It’s a war, it will not end any time soon. The war is fought at home, it’s fought in Iraq, it’s fought in Israel. While there is root causes that need to be addressed, there is also the fact that they exist, so we need to fight them.
Keljeck on October 19, 2006 at 3:39 PM
I taught at a college in England last fall and talked to a lot of Brits about where Islam is heading in their country. They all agreed, the people have awakened; it’s the government bureaucrats and the courts that are still sleepwalking to Sharia.
liberty on October 19, 2006 at 3:46 PM
That is exactly right. The only people that are not acknowledging that this is a total war is Europe and America (Most Islamists will openly tell you their plan for world domination). Until we can call a duck a duck we will continue to have a difficult time gaining victory.
Trooper on October 19, 2006 at 3:50 PM
It’s time for them to reflect this in the voting booth. Enough, already.
thirteen28 on October 19, 2006 at 3:53 PM
I just spent a week vacation with a friend from England. He flew over and we took a road trip. He doesn’t believe anything is wrong in Europe and the UK. I was gobsmacked after talking with him. Apparently, most of the British feel this way. He’s not worried in the least about terrorism. As I was spouting off stats and demographics, he dismissed it. And this guy is a die-hard Thatcherite!
robblefarian on October 19, 2006 at 3:58 PM
Seriously, is anybody surprised by this? The British response to (homegrown) Islamic terrorism has been appalling at best so far. What’s with all those full-mouthed promises that had been made right after 7/7? Where the mass expelling of radical imams? Where are the crackdowns on terror cells?
Oh, yeah, I forgot – can’t enter those houses with police dogs or your shoes on, that’d be insensitive.
Just keep doing what you’ve done so far, and in fifteen years from now Londonistan will be more than a name. It’ll stand for the European failure.
Wired German on October 19, 2006 at 4:09 PM
The Brits have a number of deadly non-arab converts, too. One, blew himself up and a number of innocent people last summer, and a second one was getting ready to take down a jet a few months ago.
EF on October 19, 2006 at 4:10 PM
In an admittedly morbid way, like watching a train wreck, I can’t wait to see how this plays out. At what point will a majority of western society awaken to the fact that radical Muslims play out of a different rule book? Our affection for free speech/expression and self limiting political correctness put us at a severe disadvantage in this conflict. While we ponder Right and Wrong, their single minded devotion to dogmatic principles drives them forward.
Scotsman on October 19, 2006 at 4:21 PM
When is the next British election? I’m gonna predict major gains for their conservative party.
SouthernGent on October 19, 2006 at 4:30 PM
Problem is, the “New Tories” aren’t a dime better than the “New Labour” dhimmis. Can’t piss off the potential Muslim voters, can ye? *rolleyes*
Wired German on October 19, 2006 at 4:45 PM
Send the lovely veiled lady to the US, we can show her what hurt feelings really are..
Viper1 on October 19, 2006 at 5:56 PM
I question the timing. But I’m serious.
Why is this coming out a few weeks before US midterms? Al Qaeda is like any other organization: it has limited resources and limited capital to blow. Are they convinced that the US, by what they believe to be the outcome of our elections, is effectively “contained”? Are they anticipating a US fallback for a period, that gives them time to demoralize a “minor Satan” like Britain?
Would Speaker Pelosi do?
HerrMorgenholz on October 19, 2006 at 7:05 PM
Allahpundit: “FYI, the woman at the center of the veil controversy, who was suspended from her teaching job for refusing to remove her niqab, was awarded £1,000 today by a British grievance board for “injury to feelings.”
How much did the Muslim grievance board pay to the British victims of the Tube bombing for “injury to feelings”?
Tantor on October 19, 2006 at 7:50 PM
It’s not a bad strategic move on Al-Queda’s part. Britain is a much more productive arena to conduct operations in than the US at this time. AQ has the advantage of a Pakistani population in the UK that is both actively and passively in support of its goals and that can readily serve as a base of operations, protection from authorities, and a fertile recruiting ground. Movement into and out of Britain for AQ members is fairly easy and many within the British government, cultural and media elites, and bureaucracy are either cowed by or actually supportive of jihadism. While British security forces have scored some notable successes, they are also being hamstrung by politically correct policies handed down to them by the bureaucracy.
This, along with the ‘intifada’ in France underscores something I said in a conversation to an old friend of mine a few months ago. I told my friend that we in the US need to make contingency plans for the worse case scenario of Western Europe going under in the next 20 to 30 years or so. There are three things that we need to think about accomplishing:
1) We need to prepare for an influx of Western European refugees. They’ll start as a trickle–in fact some say that they’ve already started–but in about 20 years or so, that trickle might well be a flood. We, along with other states such as Canada and Australia, need to think about getting ready for that.
2) We need to think about what we could do to either secure or neutralize the British and French nuclear arsenals should worse case happen and both states go Islamic. If the thought of Iran possessing the bomb is unsettling, imagine Islamic states possessing the current British and French nuclear arsenals. This is probably the most difficult contingency to plan for.
3) We need to think about making plans to salvage those treasures of Western civilization in Europe that we can salvage and carefully copy and record those monuments, buildings, sculptures, etc. that we can’t salvage. We need to do this because those barbarians will destroy such treasures as the Sistine Chapel, Notre Dame, the Last Supper, and many other treasures, not to mention such vital records as parish registries and other documents of value to historians and others. We owe that to ourselves, our ancestors, and our posterity.
Am I coming across as alarmist? Perhaps; but as I said, these thoughts are just contingency plans. Plans should the worst case scenario take place. Like the old saying goes, “Plan for the worst and hope for the best.”
Matt Helm on October 19, 2006 at 8:28 PM
David Cameron here you come! Seriously, I fear for our cousins on the other side of the pond. The likes of Londonistan’s mayor and his ilk do not bode well for the future of Britain.
thedecider on October 19, 2006 at 9:02 PM
You seem to use the word “intractable” to mean “intractable by means that I’m willing to employ.”
Kralizec on October 19, 2006 at 9:13 PM
That never even entered my mind.
Axe on October 19, 2006 at 10:48 PM
Hmm…what was a woman of the veil doing in a position of authority, anyway?
By picking and choosing which precepts of Islam to follow and disregarding the others, she created a situation guaranteed to stir up a controversy.
If you want to follow a religion, especially that religion, you gotta swallow the whole falafel.
James on October 20, 2006 at 7:52 AM
She was only in authority over children and also relative to us infidels. Even muslim women have authority over the infidel. In the UK, France and even in Australia (where a muslim woman recently spat on my mother’s dog!) this is proven every day of the week, whenever an infidel crosses the path of one of those fat ninjas and the infidel has to step from the sidewalk otherwise the fat nija walks straight through the infidel.
Consequently her actions are perfectly in keeping with her faith. After giving lip to male infidels she’ll have submissively reported back to her muslim masters.
Aylios on October 20, 2006 at 10:43 AM
I did business in the Midlands two years ago. The folks I dealt with were English; but the nearest big city, Manchester, has a huge population of Pakistanis and other non-white Muslims (I won’t use the British term “Asians” because I know it grates on MM).
My business contacts included educated professionals as well as tradesmen. I certainly enjoyed drinking with them at the local pubs; but I was shocked by the casual racism displayed by almost everyone I dealt with. They referred to Manchester in terms that only a Klansman might use for Harlem. These were not thugs or “yobs,” just ordinary folks. The yobs were even scarier.
I don’t think the “refugees from Europe” scenario will play out. My bet is on an outbreak of race riots from the far right in both the UK and France (just a hunch on France, since I’m not very familiar with that country). My impression is that there is still a deep foundation of primitive tribalism in Europeans, despite the ruling-class display of wimpy PC. European tribalism will ultimately not mix well with Islamic tribalism.
Just to clarify, I’m not happy to be making this prediction — just calling it the way I see it.
Anton on October 20, 2006 at 4:07 PM
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