6, June 2017 Terror in London – Again
Lurking below the surface of the latest
attack is a serious problem. In a British Muslim population of 3m there is a
staggering number who are in danger of committing violence. According to
British security services, there are 23,000 Muslims who are in serious danger
of becoming radicalized. That is a very sobering number.
May’s government is under intense
criticism for her decision to cut 20,000 police (1/6 of the police force)
including 1,300 armed officers who were sent to Libya. The British and the US are
committing the same blunders over and over again. Attacking or sending arms to
Muslim countries will invariably cause a backlash. Remember, the bomber of the
Ariana Grande concert in Manchester was a British Libyan. Weston governments,
including the US, have flooded the Middle East and Afghanistan with billions of
weapons to enrich their defense contractors. The Trump administration has
boasted signing a $110 billion of weapons with Saudi Arabia which exports its
extreme Sunni ideology all over the Muslim world. This is sheer madness and
must stop. May also visited Saudi Arabia and signed a huge weapons deal, the
details have been buried by British authorities.
What other factors drives young Muslims to
violence? There are two principal sources – the Internet and the harsh passages
of the “kill infidels” religious texts. The British would do well to elicit the
help of Muslim religious leaders (perhaps a simple survey requesting an
anonymous feedback on the root causes of radicalization might be helpful).
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