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.

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Categories: Counter-Terrorism, Counter - Jihad, Europe

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