"...we were, and still are, a country in denial about the threat from radical Islam. The reaction to the recent raid exemplifies this. First, we failed to implement basic border controls.
Then we tolerated extremism for years, before public opinion finally forced the authorities into action. She quotes several already well known examples of radical clerics who incited murder and other forms of violence while the British authorities, notably the Crown Prosecution Service and senior politicians, turned a blind eye.
Supporters of radical Islam such as George Galloway and Ken Livingstone are elected to public office: the latter's well documented hostility to Israel seems hardly to count against him. As recently as this year, the police went easy on those who used the publication of offensive cartoons about Islam as an excuse to call for murder.
For years, those who came here to incite violence were supported by a generous welfare state and enabled to continue their activities with the support of new human rights legislation. They have become the tool - sometimes willingly, sometimes unwittingly - of white political agitators and extremists, who have for years manipulated the anti-racist and multicultural causes for their own ends.
A climate has been created in which the police hardly dare to act on the basis of convincing intelligence, and are forced into a state of defensiveness. There is a widespread presumption across the intelligentsia, which leaks into the media, that the prime victim of this is the Muslim community.
Any suggestion that it might be the entire population - including innocent Muslims who might one day find themselves on a Tube train filled with poison gas or blown to bits - who stand to be the real victims is treated with disdain. And those who try, like Miss Phillips, to argue that the evidence supports greater vigilance are treated as pariahs."
Sorry to cut and paste, but I couldn't paraphrase or say better.
Came from The Telegraph, and I will preci
"...we were, and still are, a country in denial about the threat from radical Islam. The reaction to the recent raid exemplifies this. First, we failed to implement basic border controls.
Then we tolerated extremism for years, before public opinion finally forced the authorities into action. She quotes several already well known examples of radical clerics who incited murder and other forms of violence while the British authorities, notably the Crown Prosecution Service and senior politicians, turned a blind eye.
Supporters of radical Islam such as George Galloway and Ken Livingstone are elected to public office: the latter's well documented hostility to Israel seems hardly to count against him. As recently as this year, the police went easy on those who used the publication of offensive cartoons about Islam as an excuse to call for murder.
For years, those who came here to incite violence were supported by a generous welfare state and enabled to continue their activities with the support of new human rights legislation. They have become the tool - sometimes willingly, sometimes unwittingly - of white political agitators and extremists, who have for years manipulated the anti-racist and multicultural causes for their own ends.
A climate has been created in which the police hardly dare to act on the basis of convincing intelligence, and are forced into a state of defensiveness. There is a widespread presumption across the intelligentsia, which leaks into the media, that the prime victim of this is the Muslim community.
Any suggestion that it might be the entire population - including innocent Muslims who might one day find themselves on a Tube train filled with poison gas or blown to bits - who stand to be the real victims is treated with disdain. And those who try, like Miss Phillips, to argue that the evidence supports greater vigilance are treated as pariahs."
Sorry to cut and paste, but I couldn't paraphrase or say better.