UK: Giving in to Islamic extremism

“Like many young British Muslims, I was ‘radicalized’ at college. Just as the three British-born men who were found guilty this week of plotting to blow flights out of the sky were recruited at school, I encountered extreme Muslims at the age of 16 and was slowly converted to their ranks,” writes Ed Husain in the Daily Mail. He continues:

At my East London college, the Islamic society was run by the extremist group Hizb ut Tahrir, which believes in setting up an Islamic state, destroying Israel, and denounces Western values.At first, I, too, was convinced by their rhetoric. However one awful violent moment changed me forever. A young African man was knifed to death by the Muslim contingent at the college, simply for being a non-believer.

“Now,” Husain says, “I believe I have to speak out about what I see happening in Britain before a terrible act of terrorism claims yet more lives.”

“[T]errorism is flourishing in our country as never before,” he writes. “Why? Because a toxic combination of politically correct policy, denial and fear have opened the way for hate to grow in our midst.” Husain goes on to warn about the scale of the problem:

Unwilling or unable to recognize the scale and cause of the danger we are all facing, our leaders have turned a blind eye to what is going on.There are now tens of thousands of Muslims living in Britain, physically present in our country, but psychologically attached to Muslim-dominated countries.Large parts of our cities have become Muslim ghettos, where you can wake up in the morning and go to bed at night without seeing a non-Muslim face.They might as well be in Pakistan or Afghanistan for all the contact they have with ordinary Britain.

The dangerous spread of Islamic extremism in the UK is a problem British officials simply refuse to confront. For more on where this problem will lead, see our article “The Sickness in Britain’s Heart.”