Here below, from The Sunday Times, is some indication of the scale of the problem we face in dealing with Islamofascist Fanaticism. Reading some of these figures a month ago I would have said that more needs to be done to encourage the minority populations to integrate. Reading the same figures after the events of the last couple of weeks I would have to say that the time for politically correct accommodation is over and some of our guests need to be shown the door!
In an article carried on the BBC News site there is the following quote:
"Dr Sikander, who heads Jamia Binoria in Karachi, says the Muslims have their options clearly cut out under Islam if they do not agree with the foreign policy of those countries where they are living. Jamia Binoria is credited with producing several students who later took to militancy. The founder of the now banned Jaish-e-Mohammed militant group, Maulana Masood Azhar, is also said to have attended this seminary.
Dr Sikander says that should Muslims feel that their country of residence is doing something terribly wrong, then all they can do is to leave the country.
"If an Iraqi living in London is outraged over Britain's role in what is happening in Iraq, then he should go to Iraq and fight the coalition forces there," he said.
"Nothing gives him the right to hit back at innocent civilians living in the UK."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4711003.stm
From The Sunday Times:
“According to a YouGov poll published yesterday, some 6% of British Muslims consider the attacks were justified. That equates to about 100,000 people who, while they may not be willing to carry out such acts, are willing to support those who do.
Meanwhile, one in four British Muslims — while in no way condoning the bombers’ actions — express some understanding for the feelings and motivations that drove them to commit the crimes.
The poll also reveals that some 56% say that, regardless of whether or not they sympathise with the bombers, they do comprehend why some people might carry out such acts.
Also clear from the polling is the level of alienation many British Muslims feel from the rest of society. Nearly one in five (18%) say they feel little or no loyalty to this country, and alienation levels among men, particularly young men, are more than three times higher than those among Muslim women living here.
Some 32% of respondents to the poll believed “western society is decadent and immoral and that Muslims should seek to bring it to an end”. Of these, the equivalent of some 16,000 declared themselves willing to resort to violence if necessary to achieve this.
Coupled with the revelation that 52% of those interviewed believe “British political leaders don’t mean it when they talk about equality”, and that “they regard the lives of white British people as more valuable than the lives of British Muslims”, it paints a picture of a fractured society that is far from the cohesive front that the moderate British Muslim leadership and Downing Street wish to foster.
It also highlights the gulf between the moderate — and older — religious leadership and the impressionable, alienated and politically militant Muslim men to be found here.
Such young men are easy recruits for organisations such as al-Ghurabaa, which is clear about its commitment to radical Islam.
"Any Muslim that denies that terror is a part of Islam is kafir [an unbeliever],” says the statement issued by al-Ghurabaa, which argues that a ceasefire offered by Osama Bin Laden after the Madrid bombings was ignored, and that the public’s alleged silence about military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq means it is to blame for the atrocities visited upon it.
Another, anonymous radical pamphlet believed to have emanated from London argues that Muslims are specifically prohibited from showing any sympathy for the victims of Islamic terrorism.
Such emotionless reaction has been displayed within recent weeks by Mohammed Bouyeri, the alleged killer of Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, who in court last week looked the dead man’s mother in the eye and said: “I can’t feel for you because you are an infidel.”
The 9/11 hijackers were instructed to show no sympathy for their victims, and if necessary to slaughter them like sheep.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1706155,00.html
In an article carried on the BBC News site there is the following quote:
"Dr Sikander, who heads Jamia Binoria in Karachi, says the Muslims have their options clearly cut out under Islam if they do not agree with the foreign policy of those countries where they are living. Jamia Binoria is credited with producing several students who later took to militancy. The founder of the now banned Jaish-e-Mohammed militant group, Maulana Masood Azhar, is also said to have attended this seminary.
Dr Sikander says that should Muslims feel that their country of residence is doing something terribly wrong, then all they can do is to leave the country.
"If an Iraqi living in London is outraged over Britain's role in what is happening in Iraq, then he should go to Iraq and fight the coalition forces there," he said.
"Nothing gives him the right to hit back at innocent civilians living in the UK."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4711003.stm
From The Sunday Times:
“According to a YouGov poll published yesterday, some 6% of British Muslims consider the attacks were justified. That equates to about 100,000 people who, while they may not be willing to carry out such acts, are willing to support those who do.
Meanwhile, one in four British Muslims — while in no way condoning the bombers’ actions — express some understanding for the feelings and motivations that drove them to commit the crimes.
The poll also reveals that some 56% say that, regardless of whether or not they sympathise with the bombers, they do comprehend why some people might carry out such acts.
Also clear from the polling is the level of alienation many British Muslims feel from the rest of society. Nearly one in five (18%) say they feel little or no loyalty to this country, and alienation levels among men, particularly young men, are more than three times higher than those among Muslim women living here.
Some 32% of respondents to the poll believed “western society is decadent and immoral and that Muslims should seek to bring it to an end”. Of these, the equivalent of some 16,000 declared themselves willing to resort to violence if necessary to achieve this.
Coupled with the revelation that 52% of those interviewed believe “British political leaders don’t mean it when they talk about equality”, and that “they regard the lives of white British people as more valuable than the lives of British Muslims”, it paints a picture of a fractured society that is far from the cohesive front that the moderate British Muslim leadership and Downing Street wish to foster.
It also highlights the gulf between the moderate — and older — religious leadership and the impressionable, alienated and politically militant Muslim men to be found here.
Such young men are easy recruits for organisations such as al-Ghurabaa, which is clear about its commitment to radical Islam.
"Any Muslim that denies that terror is a part of Islam is kafir [an unbeliever],” says the statement issued by al-Ghurabaa, which argues that a ceasefire offered by Osama Bin Laden after the Madrid bombings was ignored, and that the public’s alleged silence about military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq means it is to blame for the atrocities visited upon it.
Another, anonymous radical pamphlet believed to have emanated from London argues that Muslims are specifically prohibited from showing any sympathy for the victims of Islamic terrorism.
Such emotionless reaction has been displayed within recent weeks by Mohammed Bouyeri, the alleged killer of Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, who in court last week looked the dead man’s mother in the eye and said: “I can’t feel for you because you are an infidel.”
The 9/11 hijackers were instructed to show no sympathy for their victims, and if necessary to slaughter them like sheep.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1706155,00.html
