Posted on 05/30/2004 8:23:00 PM PDT by blam
Drive to halt spread of al-Qa'eda in UK
By Toby Helm
(Filed: 31/05/2004)
Downing Street has drawn up secret plans to prevent the spread of extremism among young Muslims after confidential studies found that there are up to 10,000 "active" supporters of al-Qa'eda in Britain.
Reports commissioned by the Government, details of which were leaked to The Sunday Times, found that many young Muslims are recruited from among the poor and jobless, who are regarded by al-Qa'eda chiefs as more susceptible to exploitation.
Al-Qa'eda is actively targeting young British muslims
According to a Whitehall audit, Muslims are three times more likely to be jobless than the average member of the population.
The studies also cite evidence from MI5 that al-Qa'eda is seeking out middle-class recruits in universities. There are also recruitment operations in schools.
In March Sir Andrew Turnbull, the Cabinet Secretary, initiated a strategy to try to establish the roots of discontent among young Muslims.
Dozens of Whitehall officials have been ordered to work on how to improve relations with the Muslim community and to encourage Muslim clerics to adopt moderate views.
Radical imams will be thoroughly vetted and, if they do not agree to comply with the Government's demands, will be barred.
The Government wants to marshal opposition to extremism from within the moderate Muslim community and to persuade the moderates that they are welcome and supported by the British system. One idea is to offer funding for moderate Islamic newspapers and radio and television stations.
Tony Blair said yesterday that most leaders of the Muslim community were "very responsible people".
It should be made illegal to obscure one's face in public, as shown in the picture.
This would automatically outlaw burkas also.
A "moderate Muslim" is one that is willing to kill you in five years instead of right now.
Rather than funding moderate Muslims, perhaps they should fund pacifist Muslims (Sufis perhaps?) that have denounced violence altogether.
"funding"...are they nuts?
I agree.
My first reaction when I see these creeps hiding their faces while they publicly support terrorism is that they should be rounded up and exposed.
This kind of obligatory qualifier is becoming a bit tiresome.
Tony Blair said yesterday that most leaders of the Muslim community were "very responsible people
Yes, and they are so responsibly poking their camels' noses under the British tent, while the British are trying not to notice that strange beast that smells so bad.
But the immediate point here is to establish an agreed on spelling of the Muslim terrorist organization that bin Laden made famous. This article spells it as "al-Qa'eda". It's also spelled as al-Quida, al-Queda, Quesadia, and other variations. It's that Muslim terrorist group whose name is supposed to mean "the base", so could we agree on one English spelling of their Arabic name? < /rant>.:)
So how do you spell the name of the Colonel who runs Libya?
You're really cruel. That's Omar Quaddafy, Kadaffy, Quiddafy, DaffyDuck, etc. Nobody has ever established a standard for his name either!
Not that it bothers me, or anything...:)
Knighthawk is our resident Dutch Freeper, and please correct me if I'm wrong but I thought Holland is kicking out 46,000 immigrants, nearly all of whom are Muslims.
We need to work harder to understand them, address the root causes of their discontent, ammend for our offenses against them.....
Nah. Infiltrate, bug, arrest, imprison, deport, and shoot in the act.
The Brits are going to have to toughen up or they're not going to make it. There is very little reason any longer for claims of asylum, they should make sure the numbers admitted are sufficiently small to allow for assimilation. Without this, they will be overcome from within.
Anti-Klan ordinances still on the books should deter the wrapping of ones head with towels and tabel linens here in the US.
Isn't it "queer-dafi"??
I think it is already so in UK..but probably not enforced against the Islamics for fear of offending them.
You can get arrested going into a bank or post office wearing a motor cycle crash helmet
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