David Collier has compiled a list of Islamic terror attacks in the UK, starting with Manchester and going back two decades. It’s a grim catalogue, yet little has been done beyond treating each incident as one of a kind, as another inexplicable shock which we’ll overcome by pulling together, turning our backs on hatred, and being nice….until the next time.
The names, dates, and convictions are all public. The pattern speaks for itself.
We allow extremists in from war-torn Libya, they blow up the Manchester Arena. From Somalia, they murder a sitting MP. From Syria, they murder Jews outside a synagogue.
These nations, and others like them, are sectarian backwaters full of repression, extremism, division and violence. Yet UK authorities do almost no due diligence before allowing hundreds of thousands to enter each year. It is a suicidal policy – born of false beliefs, left-wing idealism and wilful ignorance.
Well, fair enough. We all know there’s an immigration issue. Unfortunately though quite a few of these terror attacks were committed by home-grown Islamists. We have a large Muslim population here in the UK, and they aren’t going anywhere. Islam is the issue here: the common denominator.
For Muslims in the UK the two main barriers to integration into mainstream British society are clannishness. – so ban cousin marriages – and the endless hate diatribes from the Friday sermons (and the madrassahs) demonising the “kuffars” and teaching separatism and the inevitable supremacy of Islam. So ban the hate preachers. A start, at least.
It’s worth bearing in mind that back half a century or so ago, in Iran, in Egypt, in Afghanistan even, women were walking around unveiled, wearing short skirts. If it wasn’t for the Saudis spending their petrodollar billions on the spread of hard-line Wahhabism/Salafism, maybe they’d still be there. In Kosovo, as Katya Adler documented in her Living Next Door to Putin series, they used to practice an easy-going form of Islam until the Saudis built a mega-mosque and pushed their hard-line hatred.
Is there not a way back there? Because if there isn’t, we’re in trouble.
Mick Hartley 
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