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Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem

Posted on | December 5, 2013 | 33 Comments

Woolwich, England, May 22: Killer shouted, ‘Allahu akbar!’

Gee, how did they ever figure this out?

Britain plans to classify “Islamist extremism” as a distinct ideology, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday, as part the government’s response to the murder of a soldier on a busy London street.
Cameron said he would implement recommendations he had received from a task force he set up after the murder of Lee Rigby in May, to try to stop people being radicalised by “hate preachers”. . . .
“Islamist extremism” would, for the first time, be classified as a distinct ideology to guard against it being confused with traditional religious practice, he said.
Cameron wants to tackle violent ideologies that claim Islamic justification but by doing so in a way that does not alienate Britain’s 2.7 million Muslims.
The new definition would make it clear that “Islamist extremism” was a distorted interpretation of Islam that betrayed the religion’s principles and tried to sow division.

Did the killers of Lee Rigby betray the “principles” of Islam?

The Muslim terrorist who hacked a British soldier to death in broad daylight [May 22] — and was captured on shocking video shouting, “You people will never be safe!” — was identified [May 23] as the son of Nigerian immigrants who had embraced radical Islam to the horror of his devout Christian parents. Michael Olumide Adebolajo, 28, was known to Britain’s MI5 intelligence as a potentially dangerous extremist, the Sun tabloid reported. Sources told Sun reporters that Adebolajo became a Muslim as a teenager and was linked to radical leader Anjem Choudary, whose Islamist group Al-Muhajiroun has been banned in Britain. . . .
Lee Rigby, a 25-year-old Army veteran of Afghanistan, was the target of the attack. . . . Video of Wednesday’s attack showed Adebolajo yelling “Allahu akbar” while brandishing a butcher knife and a meat cleaver with Rigby’s blood covering his hands.

It seems there are an awful lot of Muslims who share this “Islamist extremism” hatred of the West. Perhaps I’m the only one who remembers watching TV news coverage on Sept. 11, 2001, when crowds of Muslims were dancing in the streets of Cairo and Gaza in celebration of the terrorist attacks masterminded by al-Qaeda.

Pamela Geller notices how the British government has tied itself in knots trying to distinguish Islam (good) from extremism (bad). Perhaps she and her colleague Robert Spencer could explain this problem to the British, if they weren’t banned from entering the country because of their “pro-Israel views”:

The move to ban us . . . was a massive operation. . . . At the first whisper of a rumor by some “hooligans” that Robert Spencer and I might be speaking at a freedom demo in the UK, numerous British government and law enforcement agencies sprung into action. Although Robert Spencer and I had not decided to go and speak in the UK until June, various government agencies began working to ban us as early as February.

Are supporters of Israel beheading British soldiers in broad daylight? Are radical Zionists bombing London’s subways and buses?

No, of course not, but the British elite class has succumbed to the kind of cowardly fecklessness that inspired Neville Chamberlain’s “peace for our time” folly at Munich and so — as appeasement to Britain’s most dangerous enemies — Geller and Spencer are banned.

Can no one in England do simple arithmetic? The population of the United Kingdom is 63 million, and yet Her Majesty’s Government is engaged in this humiliating appeasement because of their concern that they “not alienate Britain’s 2.7 million Muslims.”

The 4 percent tail is wagging the 96 percent dog.

While certainly no civilized person wishes to infringe anyone else’s legitimate rights, must the vast majority of Britons silently endure the humiliating spectacle of their own government tiptoing around for fear of hurting the feelings of the 4% Muslim minority?

How rapidly does decadence advance! Scarcely seven decades ago, Britain stood alone against the unspeakable terror of the Blitz. Her soldiers, sailors and airmen covered themselves in eternal glory, fighting in the distant desert, on the high seas, and in the skies over London to defeat Hitler’s deadly totalitarian war machine. Yet now the grandsons of those heroes are willing to surrender everything because they are afraid of offending a handful of disgruntled imams, professional “activists” and liberal newspaper columnists?

Is there not one courageous man left in the United Kingdom who can summon that once-proud nation to recall its great heritage?

UPDATE: “By the command of Allah“:

The alleged murderers of Lee Rigby told police they cut his throat with a knife because ‘this is how we kill our animals in Islam’, a court was told today.
Michael Adebolajo said in an interview that ‘the most humane way to kill any creature is to cut the jugular’, the Old Bailey heard.
He allegedly also told detectives that he and Michael Adebowale targeted Fusilier Rigby because he was the first soldier that they saw while waiting near Woolwich Barracks on May 22 this year. . . .
Describing the day of the killing, he said: ‘We decided to wait in the vicinity of the barracks that are in Woolwich. By the command of Allah, Allah’s decree, we waited to find a soldier because between us we decided that the soldier is the most fair target because he joins the army with kind of an understanding that your life is at risk.’

Britain’s soldiers are killed in the name of Allah, but Her Majesty’s Government must take care not to “alienate” Muslims.

 

 


Category: Great Britain, Islam, Terrorism

Comments

33 Responses to “Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem”

  1. Citzcom
    December 5th, 2013 @ 12:15 pm

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  2. jwbrown1969
    December 5th, 2013 @ 12:15 pm

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  3. JoyKeller1
    December 5th, 2013 @ 12:16 pm

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  4. smitty_one_each
    December 5th, 2013 @ 12:21 pm

    TOM Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem http://t.co/KFSwFxnFf1 #TCOT

  5. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    December 5th, 2013 @ 12:26 pm

    Where is Monty Python when you need them? If everyone was not so afraid of mocking Islamist extremism (and Europe sent a very wrong message in how it reacted to the Danish cartoon uproar and the stabbing of Van Gogh), it never would have gotten to the point where they are cutting your heads off over nothing.

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  7. rsmccain
    December 5th, 2013 @ 12:33 pm

    Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem http://t.co/NcfAuPMQMz Hat-tip @Atlasshrugs cc @jihadwatchRS @kshaidle #tcot

  8. MotherGoos3
    December 5th, 2013 @ 12:35 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem http://t.co/NcfAuPMQMz Hat-tip @Atlasshrugs cc @jihadwatchRS …

  9. oneofthefreds
    December 5th, 2013 @ 12:36 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem http://t.co/NcfAuPMQMz Hat-tip @Atlasshrugs cc @jihadwatchRS …

  10. rsmccain
    December 5th, 2013 @ 12:37 pm

    WAKE UP, ENGLAND: “The 4 percent tail is wagging the 96 percent dog.” http://t.co/NcfAuPMQMz

  11. MotherGoos3
    December 5th, 2013 @ 12:39 pm

    Don’t forget that Michael Savage is also banned from Britain, presumably because of Islamophobia

  12. FREEBetsyB
    December 5th, 2013 @ 12:39 pm

    RT @rsmccain: WAKE UP, ENGLAND: “The 4 percent tail is wagging the 96 percent dog.” http://t.co/NcfAuPMQMz

  13. tonylb17
    December 5th, 2013 @ 12:43 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem http://t.co/KFSwFxnFf1 #TCOT

  14. shatteraheart
    December 5th, 2013 @ 12:43 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem http://t.co/KFSwFxnFf1 #TCOT

  15. Professor_Why
    December 5th, 2013 @ 12:52 pm

    Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem http://t.co/xn7REyatWI

  16. jaymroth
    December 5th, 2013 @ 1:01 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem http://t.co/KFSwFxnFf1 #TCOT

  17. shadowofzen
    December 5th, 2013 @ 1:09 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem http://t.co/NcfAuPMQMz Hat-tip @Atlasshrugs cc @jihadwatchRS …

  18. indybellusa
    December 5th, 2013 @ 1:11 pm

    Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem http://t.co/euOVAc9ZAm

  19. rsmccain
    December 5th, 2013 @ 1:20 pm

    UPDATE: “By the command of Allah“ http://t.co/NcfAuPMQMz #Woolwich #Rigby

  20. majorpettifogge
    December 5th, 2013 @ 1:21 pm

    Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem http://t.co/gBgy0fqEpA

  21. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    December 5th, 2013 @ 1:33 pm

    I am no Michael Savage fan, but if any Savage should be banned from Britain, it should be Dan Savage.

  22. DocWashburn
    December 5th, 2013 @ 1:36 pm

    RT @rsmccain: UPDATE: “By the command of Allah“ http://t.co/NcfAuPMQMz #Woolwich #Rigby

  23. ConserAnimal
    December 5th, 2013 @ 2:57 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem http://t.co/NcfAuPMQMz Hat-tip @Atlasshrugs cc @jihadwatchRS …

  24. SHAWSBLOG1
    December 5th, 2013 @ 5:33 pm

    Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem http://t.co/JW94cl7Pj3

  25. Bob Belvedere
    December 5th, 2013 @ 7:32 pm

    While Savage’s banning from the UK was wrong, let us not forget that he is a con man, a shyster – not even close to being in the same league with Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer.

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  27. Shawny
    December 5th, 2013 @ 10:57 pm

    If this kind of barbaric crap isn’t what we’re fighting then there is no war on terror and we need to bring all our soldiers home. If we don’t know our enemies when they continuously proclaim their hatred for us and repeatedly act on it by killing those the little pervert voices in their head tell them to murder……we are both stupid and screwed. Oh, and if we don’t have the sand to clean our own house of Islamic extremists, Communists and Marxist radicals who have shown nothing but contempt for American laws and values…then we’ve got not one damned thing to say to Britain.

  28. Zohydro
    December 5th, 2013 @ 11:42 pm

    I have doubts about whether Michael Savage is real or not…

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    December 6th, 2013 @ 4:43 pm

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  32. George Talbot
    December 6th, 2013 @ 7:21 pm

    Examples?

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