ISIS Exposed: Beheadings, Slavery, and the Hellish Reality of Radical Islam by Erick Stakelbeck

Author:Erick Stakelbeck [Stakelbeck, Erick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621573890
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2015-03-09T06:00:00+00:00

There’s a reason it has been called “Londonistan.”

According to most estimates, around five hundred British Muslims have traveled to Syria or Iraq to join up with ISIS and other Islamic terrorist groups.17 Others place the number as high as eight hundred British ISIS recruits, while one British MP has said that at least fifteen hundred Brits have trekked to the Middle East to join ISIS over the past few years.18

To put it in even starker terms, one out of every four Europeans fighting alongside ISIS hails from Great Britain.19 Indeed, twice as many Muslims are now fighting for ISIS as for the UK military.20 Many of these battle-tested British fighters have already returned home after completing their jihadi apprenticeships in Syria.21 Their next move is anyone’s guess—perhaps they’ll join Anjem Choudary on Britain’s welfare dole. Or maybe they’ll use some of the tricks they learned fighting with ISIS to carry out attacks on British soil. The UK’s Islamism problem is so acute—and such a threat to spill over into other Western countries—that the Obama administration, in a rare instance of being proactive, not reactive, in the face of the jihadist threat, reportedly sent a special unit of CIA officers to Britain to investigate. According to Britain’s Daily Mail,

It is unusual for the CIA to send a team to the UK: the agency usually relies on information passed to it by MI5 or MI6 or by its agents stationed at the American Embassy in London.

. . . Professor Anthony Glees, of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at Buckingham University, said the mission . . . showed the level of concern in Washington over the issue, which he claimed was rooted in the UK’s “lax” immigration policies.

“The US is worried about the British situation. They fear there might be a knock-on effect for them,” Prof Glees said.

. . . “The Americans regard the UK as a disaster because of our lax stance on immigration which has allowed this militancy to take hold.”

. . . sources also admitted that the move revealed a growing lack of trust in Washington over MI5 and MI6’s ability to provide a reliable assessment of the security threat presented by young Muslims under the sway of imams who are radicalised and then recruited to fight in religious wars around the globe.

The Obama administration has become increasingly anxious that young American Muslims could follow the same pattern. There are strong links between British and American radicals and the sources say the CIA feels British efforts to identify and unmask them have been inadequate.22

Don’t look now, but America has its own problems with “lax immigration policies,” not to mention a wide-open southern border that ISIS could drive a caravan of pickup trucks through. If things continue the way they’re going, we’ll get to where Britain is soon enough. And to put it bluntly, our cousin across the pond is a jihadi wonderland.

How bad are things in the UK? During my trips to Britain over the past few years, I’ve interviewed 1) An al Qaeda–linked, U.

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