[lit-ideas] Londonistan
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:57:39 -0800
[Berlinski's Menace in Europe, page 42] "Britain has, clearly been infected
by a malefic and virulent ideology. As elsewhere in Europe, the vector of
transmission has been foreign-born radical clerics. Britain has welcomed
foreign dissidents since the time of Garibaldi. Following the Soviet
withdrawal from Afghanistan, this tradition permitted some of the world's
most radical jihadis, Arab clerics who had fought in Afghanistan and faced
criminal sentences for terrorism in their native countries, to seek and
receive asylum in Britain. Statutes designed to promote racial tolerance
permitted these clerics, mostly trained in Saudi-sponsored madrassas, to
promulgate delirious hatred of the West from the pulpits of British mosques.
London became the international headquarters for radical groups such as
Takfir-wal-Hijra, Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia,
the Bahrain Freedom Movement, and the Algerian Armed Islamic Group. British
authorities studiously ignored this development. Since the 1990s,
frustrated French counterterror officials have for this reason referred to
the British capital as Londonistan."
Lawrence
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