As if the progress of the Afghan war wasn't enough to worry about, a nightmare spectre is emerging at home. The attitude of many British Muslims should cause the greatest possible alarm that we have a fifth column in our midst.[...]
All around one hears Muslims saying the same thing: that any attack on Muslims is an attack on Islam, against which self-defence is legitimate. This easily slips into justifying violence against those trying to defeat Islamic terror. It also reveals that for these Muslims their principal allegiance is not to Britain; indeed, they present themselves as in a kind of state of war against it.
This is fantastically dangerous. Such people don't need to go to Afghanistan to fight. With Bin Laden calling Muslims across the world to arms in "defence" of their brothers, can anyone doubt how easy it would be for some of these impressionable and hysterical youths to be recruited to poison the air supply of a public building or perform some other act of terrorism here?
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The problem is that our society is in denial. The fact that we are fighting a war has not sunk in; indeed, in many quarters the notion is actively resisted. But we are - and a country at war simply cannot tolerate treachery. The stakes are just too high.
Sadly, even after two terror attacks on London, this is still the case. But Melanie has some suggestions that are still relevant today.
She ends with this:
"These foolish people have mightily reinforced Islamic separatism. It is hard to exaggerate the damage this has done and the danger it has put us all in. Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them. We now stare into the abyss, aghast."
That was written 4 years ago!
Will Britain ever wake up?
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