Nope. Not what you think at all. Number of detained Muslim extremists dropped from 257 in 2006 to 201 in 2007, so headline is misleading. 89% of all terrorist attacks linked to separatism on Spain or France.
EU nationals being recruited for activity in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia.
Now, children...are we perhaps overreacting? Compare what is going on with the 1970s and ask yourself
a. are there as many incidents in Europe today as there were then?
b. Are the "Muslim extremists" anything like as serious a threat as our homegrown anarchists, Trotskyites and Maoists were?
c. Is the amount of separatist violence as widespread as it was then?
d. Is the only difference that something has happened in the USA?
e. Why are we restricting freedoms and rights so much more now than we did then?
Its a full exam paper today.
08 April 2008
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On the one hand,'Islamist terrorism' is a handy vehicle to legitimise discrimination and islamophobic sentiment. This thereby registers an interest, or even a sinister movement, amongst some (significant) numbers of Daily Mail readers. On the other hand, the level of discrimination and deprivation amongst South Asian groups in the UK, which is highly 'racialised' (and well documented), must pose a risk of violent backlash, however that might look, because people are disenfranchised and disengaged from the polity. Are the numbers arrested for extremism truly reflective of extremist activity? An eminent QC recently told me that many (most?) black (African-Carribean) criminals convicted of crime have a copy of the Qur'an in their prison cell...
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