Britain - Ten Steps to Make Her Safer

The Telegraph has its list.

First on the list is revealing.

1. Confidently assert British values

We must recognize that a root cause of home-grown terrorism is the pollution of British values by Britain herself. Our own culture has actively, if unconsciously, helped to foster a contempt for our country among our own young people.

The result is not merely a loss of Britain's collective memory and communal understanding - it is a class of alienated young men of foreign extraction who regard our civilization as weak, decadent and despicable.

We must prove them wrong. The Government, schools, the BBC and other cultural outlets should launch a campaign to celebrate the virtues and values of Britishness, and to inculcate these values in the children who grow up, and the migrants who settle, in our country.

While I agree that this is one of the root causes for home-grown terrorism, the real source is Islam.

And asking these organizations to lend a hand is like asking the fox to guard the chicken house. The Government is busy enacting Islamic laws, the Prime Minister's wife wins the right for Muslim girls to wear the hijab to school, the schools downplay being British in favor of being multicultural and the BBC are already part of the dark side having hired the editor in chief of Al Jazeera, among other things.

Travel around Britain and see how many British flags you see. I live in Scotland and rarely see a Scottish flag except in connection to a football match.

May I humbly suggest that Britain take some examples from America. If Britain doesn't have one, create a pledge of allegiance to the flag and have every school kid recite it before school begins in the morning. Require schools and government buildings to display the British flag; other flags, such as Scotland's, could be flown as well, just as state flags are in America. Encourage people to fly their flag outside their homes and to wear emblems of them on their clothes or bumper stickers. Sing the national anthem before every football, soccer, rugby and cricket match.

It's not just a case of being proud to be British, it's a case of being proud to show that you are proud to be British.
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