Thursday, November 09, 2006
So Dame Eliza wants to 'monitor' us all ?
Terrorists are recruiting in our schools, says MI5 boss. Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller (of MI5) told an invited audience at Queen Mary College, London, that MI5 was monitoring some 200 groupings or networks comprising more than 1,600 individuals ''who are actively engaged in plotting or facilitating, terrorist acts here and overseas".
The nature and gravity of the threat was deepening, fuelled by the rapid radicalisation of young British Muslims – some still at school, yet prepared to join the ranks of the suicide bombers. She said the country faced a sustained and growing threat that ''would last a generation".
Dame Eliza said surveys among Muslims suggested there could be as many as 100,000 people who considered that the July 7 atrocities were justified. It is the youth who are being actively targeted, groomed, radicalised and sent on a path that frighteningly quickly could end in their involvement in mass murder of their fellow UK citizens or their early death in a suicide attack or on a foreign battlefield.
IMO: Almost like the Spanish Civil war against Franco (a crony of Hitler, just like Tony B. Liar is nowadays as good as a crony of the UK hunting lobby and other criminal fascists) and the book "The prime of Miss Jean Brodie", then? Oh yes, I am afraid I understand.
The dame also said "The Muslim communities in this country did not ask the terrorists to act in their name. The vast majority are sickened by the slur on their great and noble faith. They make a huge and vital contribution to the life of this country."
IMO: That is trueish. I only wish it were 'truer'. Of course Islam has many faults, too, and many of these seem intrinsic to the faith itself. Most people in the UK believe we would be better off without Islam or any Muslims in the UK, and that is undoubtedly a fact.
Summing up: I have a great deal of sympathy and respect for the causes of these militants, but it really is not going to work out favorably in the forseeable future in practically anyone's terms. Basically militant's desires are not going to meet with success. There just is not a big enough payoff for the terror methods to be justified. Now on Global Warming and the end of the world, there is a real issue but there is no evidence that militant means will help or even be used at this time. Maybe the efforts of some of these young idealists should be developed to combat global warming.
The nature and gravity of the threat was deepening, fuelled by the rapid radicalisation of young British Muslims – some still at school, yet prepared to join the ranks of the suicide bombers. She said the country faced a sustained and growing threat that ''would last a generation".
Dame Eliza said surveys among Muslims suggested there could be as many as 100,000 people who considered that the July 7 atrocities were justified. It is the youth who are being actively targeted, groomed, radicalised and sent on a path that frighteningly quickly could end in their involvement in mass murder of their fellow UK citizens or their early death in a suicide attack or on a foreign battlefield.
IMO: Almost like the Spanish Civil war against Franco (a crony of Hitler, just like Tony B. Liar is nowadays as good as a crony of the UK hunting lobby and other criminal fascists) and the book "The prime of Miss Jean Brodie", then? Oh yes, I am afraid I understand.
The dame also said "The Muslim communities in this country did not ask the terrorists to act in their name. The vast majority are sickened by the slur on their great and noble faith. They make a huge and vital contribution to the life of this country."
IMO: That is trueish. I only wish it were 'truer'. Of course Islam has many faults, too, and many of these seem intrinsic to the faith itself. Most people in the UK believe we would be better off without Islam or any Muslims in the UK, and that is undoubtedly a fact.
Summing up: I have a great deal of sympathy and respect for the causes of these militants, but it really is not going to work out favorably in the forseeable future in practically anyone's terms. Basically militant's desires are not going to meet with success. There just is not a big enough payoff for the terror methods to be justified. Now on Global Warming and the end of the world, there is a real issue but there is no evidence that militant means will help or even be used at this time. Maybe the efforts of some of these young idealists should be developed to combat global warming.
# posted by uv : 11:00 PM
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