July 08, 2005

What Britain Can Do to Combat Islamofascism

From Michael Radu, Senior Fellow and Co-Chair at the Center on Terrorism and Counterterrorism at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia:

Frontpage Magazine: Dr. Radu, you are one of the West’s most respected experts on terrorism. Let’s suppose Prime Minister Blair calls you tonight and asks: “Dr. Radu, I need your advice. What do I do to protect my homeland better and what do I do to fight terrorism more effectively overall, at home and abroad?” What do you tell him?

Radu: a) Stop being politically correct and define the enemy clearly – it is Islamism. If established Muslim groups persist in opposing common sense measures to counter terrorism, make it clear that that amounts to indirect support for it, never mind the declared intentions.

b) Completely reform the asylum and immigration policies;

c) Either legalize indefinite internment for non-citizen radicals, or extradite them. If that requires changes in the EU human rights legislation or UK rejection of it, so be it.

d) Criminalize recruiting and indoctrination of radicals by UK residents.

E) Learn from the French – yes, from the French.

FP: What is it exactly that the French have done right?

Radu: They have learned from the wave of Islamic terror in France in the mid-1990s. For instance, imams coming to France now must speak French; the process of training them in France has began; imams preaching anti-Semitism or the murder of “infidels” are often expelled….expeditiously; at government instigation, a French Council of the Muslim Religion (Conseil français du culte musulman – CFCM) has been established, institutionalizing the dialogue with the authorities; mosques, whether legal or illegal, are under permanent surveillance; suspected terrorists are detained for longer periods, and the simple intention to join or have association with terrorists is a crime.

I’m glad to hear that the French have begun to catch on.

Read the whole thing. The whole interview is great; I’ve quoted from it in three different posts today.

Britain is Paying the Price for Generously Harboring a Radical Islamic Population

From Hamlet:

Horatio: So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to’t.
Hamlet: Why, man, they did make love to this employment!

Per Michael Radu, London’s been making itself a haven to terrorists for years:

London has been the main center of Islamist recruitment, indoctrination and fundraising in the West for several years now. Lately, with British-born citizens engaged in suicide bombings in Israel and Iraq, it has gone into terrorism export – as we know in the USA, from Richard Reid (the "shoe bomber") and Zakarias Moussaoui, the September 11th terrorist, recruited in London. And today, the last step, it has become the target. There are good reasons the French are talking about Londonistan."

Abu Qatada, a Palestinian, Abu Hamza (Egyptian), are prominent ideologues, religious legitimizers and recruiters, operating from London for years – and all at the taxpayers’ expense, both enjoying welfare. The former was behind Algerian GIA’s mass massacres, the latter behind Yemen kidnappings and murders of tourists; none is a citizen. And yet, when Blair interned them – he cannot send them back because, God forbid, they may be mistreated, the House of Lords forced their release under EU "human rights" legislation. Compare that with France, where imams advocating wife beating are routinely sent back to Algeria.

Democratic societies cannot generously harbor the Islamofascists. The Islamofascist societies call for, and find, terrorists who kill the women and children of Democratic societies.

The Liberal View of the GWOT

Michael Radu, Senior Fellow and Co-Chair at the Center on Terrorism and Counterterrorism at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, on the Liberal view of the GWOT:

...when one loses the confidence and pride in one’s own culture, tradition and history, one disarms against fanatical believers in their own. One cannot fight something with nothing – as they (the Left) do when denying that we are fighting a civilizational conflict. Bin Laden says he fights one – [British newspapers such as] The Guardian et co. deny it. It is like having a war declared against you, and your side is being killed and all the while you deny the war even exists.

“Muslim Cleric Urged London Attacks”

From NewsMax:

As Londoners recover from bombing attacks that left 50 people dead and 1,000 wounded yesterday, suspicion is focusing on a radical Muslim cleric who urged his flock to commit suicide bombing attacks in Britain and preached anti-Semitic hate from his mosque in Finsbury Park.

...”Seek the way of death; try to do actions that subject you to death,” he told an audience of mostly young men shortly before his arrest last year.

It will be very interesting to find out if the 7-7 terrorists are long-time London residents.

McCain: “Take the Fight to the Enemy”

McCain is right on the money here:

Regarding our own homeland defenses, McCain told interviewer Shepard Smith, “We have made progress, we have a long way to go, and if we fail to take the fight to the enemy, the enemy will take the fight to us.”

...”You’ve got to go where they’re bred, and that happens to be in these madrassahs that are funded by the Saudis, where the [terrorists] are taught to hate and destroy the West and everything we stand for.

“We’ve got to go where these terrorists breed … in the Middle East, with the followers of extreme Islamic fundamentalism.

...McCain also doesn’t believe the convoluted notion that we are somehow creating more terrorists by fighting them.

“These people were bent on our destruction [before] September 11 … we had not had a war in Iraq at that time. ... It’s clear that there is a breeding ground of radical Islamic extremism that predates anything the U.S. has done.”

Bingo.