The Terrorist Next Door: How the Government is Deceiving You About the Islamist Threat by Stakelbeck Erick

Author:Stakelbeck, Erick [Stakelbeck, Erick]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Patriot Bookshelf
ISBN: 9781596986800
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2012-11-06T06:00:00+00:00

The answer to Sean’s question is this: liberal permissiveness and social engineering have transformed Britain, and especially its capital, into “Londonistan.” During the massive wave of Islamic immigration that has flooded its shores over the past several decades, Britain became the go-to spot for asylum seekers from Muslim countries. British officials essentially welcomed men like al-Faqih and al-Sirri with open arms, and before long, wanted Islamic terrorists from across the Middle East and North Africa were living comfortably in London at British taxpayers’ expense. Most simply continued their jihadist activities, confident that politically correct British authorities would not deport them back to places like Egypt and Jordan due to human rights concerns. The Brits’ inaction outraged Middle Eastern governments, which were eager to get their hands on these enemies of the state.

“All of this happened under the assumption that if you allowed these people to operate in London, if you allowed them to do whatever they wanted to do, they would not be attacking Britain,” terrorism analyst Peter Neumann told me as we sat in his London office. “The government, quite cynically, thought that whatever happened in other countries, whatever these people were plotting in other countries, was of no concern to the British government.”

Essentially, Neumann was saying that Great Britain made a deal with the devil. And since the devil isn’t known for keeping up his end of a bargain, it’s no surprise Britain’s unspoken accord with its growing jihadist subgroup did not last; it was irretrievably broken on July 7, 2005, when four British-born, al-Qaeda-linked terrorists murdered fifty-two people in a series of bombings against London’s mass transit system, exposing the myopia of Great Britain’s open-door policy for foreign jihadists.

“Only then did the policy change,” said Neumann. “However, the seeds of the radical Islamists’ activity had already been sown.”

Indeed. In August 2006, London was the staging ground for a foiled al-Qaeda plot to blow up ten transatlantic airliners bound from Britain to the United States. Coming on the heels of the 2005 mass transit bombings, the ’06 plot further convinced British law enforcement and intelligence officials that it was time to shift their focus from the Irish Republican Army to the internationally connected Islamic jihadists in their midst. They may have been too late. In 2008, Britain’s then-Home Secretary declared that British intelligence was monitoring some 2,000 potential terrorists, as well as 200 radical Islamic networks and thirty active terrorist plots.10

Confronted with such a pervasive threat, British officials have made the occasional nod to “cracking down.” They convicted extremist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri on terrorism charges and deported one of his cohorts, Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, to Lebanon—this only came after both men had spent years openly calling for the overthrow of the British government and the imposition of Islamic sharia law in the UK. Additionally, the aforementioned Abu Qatada currently sits in a London jail, awaiting deportation back to Jordan. So that’s three down and literally thousands to go—and perhaps many more.

Britain’s Muslim population has exploded over

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