The same movement that produced the Taliban now controls 600 of Britain’s 1,350 mosques and 80 percent of its home-trained clerics, according to an investigation by the Times. This movement, called the Deobandi, is a mainstream Sunni organization, yet it preaches the destruction of the West and runs seminaries training adherents to do just that.

The most influential scholar in this sect will soon be Riyadh ul Haq, a man who has lived in Britain nearly all his life and preaches that Muslims must shun non-believers and that they must not be afraid to kill for Allah.

The Times gained access to talks by ul Haq and his fellow graduates from the Deobandi seminary in Bury, Greater Manchester. The talks were intended for Muslims only. In their statements, the men preached a message of hatred for the Western world, admiration for such murderous regimes as the Taliban and a great zeal for martyrdom.

The seminary in Bury bans art, television, music and chess, and labels soccer as “a cancer that has infected our youth” (Times Online, September 7.).

Ul Haq is by no means the only Deobandi scholar who despises the West, or even to encourage militant Islam. Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani is among the most well-known of these scholars. A former judge in Pakistan’s Supreme Court, adviser to several global financial institutions and a frequent traveler to Britain, Usmani declared that Muslims must wage war “to establish the supremacy of Islam.” Usmani teaches that Muslims “must live in peace until strong enough to wage jihad” (ibid.).

These comments are not coming from extremist clerics in one isolated mosque. They are coming from the leaders of one of the most powerful branches of Islam in the United Kingdom.

Teachings that Muslims should be completely separate from the society around them and should even destroy it are broadcast to more than a million British Muslims, a cancer right in the heart of Great Britain. This deadly disease, however shocking, was prophesied to occur thousands of years ago. For more information, read “The Sickness in Britain’s Heart.”