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| British bombers likely recruited at government-funded centre |
| 2005-07-15 |
| EFL. Via JihadWatch The transformation of four young British men into terrorists appears to have taken place at a government-funded storefront youth centre in Leeds that, according to youth workers, was a hub of radical Islamist activity. The centre was sealed off and searched by police yesterday after three of its workers said in an interview on the street outside that at least two of the suicide bombers had been "very regular" visitors at all hours to the Hamara Youth Access Point, and a third had been seen there occasionally. "It had become so radical and so hateful that I asked if I could stop working there," said one of the workers, who along with two others described the storefront drop-in centre as a hub of radical Muslim politics and a hotbed of Islamic organizing, routinely hosting mysterious figures to speak about extremist politics. All three workers, two of them white British Christians, live in the poor Beeston area, which was home to two of the bombers, Shahzad Tanweer, 22, and Hasib Hussain, 18. A third bomber, 30-year-old Mohammed Sadique Khan, also lived in this tight-knit community in Leeds until a few months ago, when he moved with his wife and their infant child to Dewsbury, not far to the south, where he worked as a well-respected primary-school teacher. It appears that this modest youth centre is the point where these three young men converged with the fourth bomber and a leading figure who was being sought by police last night. "It's fair to say that there was some kind of recruiting going on here," one of the workers said. "Some of the youth workers were really involved with it, and it got to the point where they were acting really hostile to anyone who wasn't their kind of Muslim." Rest at link. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #3 No suprise there. A review of some of the articles containing quotes from people close to the boomers and the places they went makes it clear there were actually people who had misgivings about the boomers and what was going on before 7/7. Nobody seems to have thought it important enough to talk to authorities. |
| Posted by: Tkat 2005-07-15 08:52 |
| #2 The unintended consequences of feel good PCism. As my mother used to say 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.' |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-07-15 07:39 |
| #1 "Most people here feel that none of the mosques have adopted the highly radical, anti-Western politics that have turned some London houses of worship into Islamist recruiting centres. They say, however, that study groups have formed on the edges of congregations that may teach a much more political form of Islam." "Highly radical" is a relitive term. If you believe that England should be ruled by Islamic law then the idea of a secular democracy is radical. |
| Posted by: canaveraldan 2005-07-15 06:10 |