Sunday, July 17, 2005

MULTICULTURAL EXPERIMENT GONE WRONG

The British government did more than allow an Islamist swamp to form within, it helped stock the swamp with alligators:
To frustrated foreign intelligence services, the British capital city has long been known as Beirut-on-Thames or Londonistan, a safe haven for dissident Islamic groups of varying degrees of extremism from across the Muslim world. Dissident political leaders of radical Islamic parties, firebrand clerics preaching holy war, the footsoldiers of 'jihad' in Afghanistan, Algeria and Chechnya, and the innocent refugees caught in the crossfire: all have found refuge on our shores.
There seemed to be a brutal logic to this arrangement. As long as these individuals presented no threat to British national security, MI5 and MI6 were more than happy to have them here because they were a ready source of intelligence about what became known as 'political Islam'. For the best part of a decade, from the end of the Afghan war against the Soviet Union in 1989, the arrangement appeared to work well.
Security services admit that it will take decades to fully infiltrate the swamp. Maybe it's time for an alligator round-up. Better yet, a cull.

By the way, the excerpt above is from an Observer article well worth reading.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Jorgen said...

Tony Blair will take firm and decisive action: he will firmly and decisively do nothing.

9:07 PM  
Anonymous Jorgen said...

but he will give a good firmly-sounding and decisively-sounding speach!

3:45 AM  

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