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| Britain |
| WeÂ’re far too nice to Muslim extremists |
| 2007-02-05 |
| It is hard not to feel a desperate anger at last week’s news. Nine British Muslims have been arrested on suspicion of plotting to behead a British Muslim soldier, as a traitor to Islam, and to show a videotape of the act on the net to terrify us. In the same week Policy Exchange, the think tank, has published a poll-based study that shows young British-born Muslims are far more alienated from mainstream society than their parents. Of British Muslims aged 16-24, 37% would prefer to live under sharia in Britain, 37% would like to send their children to Islamic state schools and — most incredibly — 36% think Muslims converting to another religion should be punished by death. Young British Muslims who say they “admire organisations like Al-Qaeda, which are prepared to fight the West” amount to 13%. For British Muslims aged over 55, the figures are much lower, at 17%, 19%, 19% and 3% respectively. What is truly alarming is the collective yawn with which this information was received by the British |
| Posted by:PlanetDan |
| #3 When Britain first at Heav'n's command Arose from out the azure main; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sang this strain: Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves: |
| Posted by: DMFD 2007-02-05 18:37 |
| #2 I am sorry to say Icerigger may be right. So, thousands of years of history given away to savagery and with nothing in return but the enslavement of our women and the destruction of all art, all science and all hope. /Denathor |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-02-05 16:04 |
| #1 Briton is done for. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-02-05 14:48 |