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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Efforts to curb politicised Islam backfiring - study</b>
January 30, 2007
LONDON - Attempts by the British Government to combat the growth of Islamic extremism among a minority of young Muslims are making the situation worse, a report by an independent think-tank said.
Policy Exchange research found that young British Muslims were much more likely to be influenced by a political form of Islam than their parents because of changes to society and loss of shared national identity.
Attempts to engage with the country's 1.8 million Muslims were failing because it treated them as a homogenous group, leaving some feeling excluded and ignored.
"Government policies to improve engagement with Muslims make things worse," the report's lead author Munira Mirza said. "The Government should stop emphasising difference and engage with Muslims as citizens, not through their religious identity." >> NOT TRUE: they were treated as regular British citizens before, and a lot of good that did <<
The issue of Muslim integration was highlighted in July 2005 when four British Islamists carried out suicide bombings in London killing 52 people.
The extent of the growth in extremism was made clear last year by Britain's domestic spy chief who said <b>security services were monitoring 1600 mostly UK-born suspects.</b>
The report said growing religiosity among young Muslims reflected a "search for meaning and community", a sense of disengagement that was shared by young people generally.
The study found 37 per cent of 16-24-year-old Muslims would prefer to live under Islamic sharia law than under British law compared to just 17 per cent of those aged over 55.
There was also far greater support for exhibiting their religious identity in public with 74 per cent of young Muslims preferring women to wear a veil or hijab compared to 28 per cent of the older generation.
Thirteen per cent of those aged 16-24 also agreed with the statement that they "admire organisations like al Qaeda that are prepared to fight the West" as opposed to just 3 per cent in the 55 and over age bracket.
- REUTERS<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
People are always excusing christoislamic terrorism:
(1) They are a minority and feel threatened by the majority who are dubbed 'communalist' or 'racist' (depending on the country under consideration)
(2) They need more money and resources poured into their education and improving their welfare. Then they will become better citizens
(3) Carve a bit of the nation to give them their own country, that will appease them
(4) Don't treat them as a separate group, treat them like citizens (Britain) and all your terrorist problems will melt away
(5) Give Palestinians lots of/all of Israel or give muslims Kashmir or help Chechnya or give them large tracts of Yugoslavian land and they will be good little kiddies again
Enough with the excuses. They will get everything for free and when there's nothing more to give, they'll continue the j-had anyway. The west needs to wake up, j-had is going to happen, sooner or later. Make it sooner, while the west still has a mostly non-islamic population and can still fight back to stem the tide of islamicisation. The longer they wait to do 'something' about the islamicisation and j-had, the more likely the turn of events will be an islamic west.
There's no negotiating with crazed religious zombies. People really ought to learn to say No Tolerance For Intolerance.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Efforts to curb politicised Islam backfiring - study</b>
January 30, 2007
LONDON - Attempts by the British Government to combat the growth of Islamic extremism among a minority of young Muslims are making the situation worse, a report by an independent think-tank said.
Policy Exchange research found that young British Muslims were much more likely to be influenced by a political form of Islam than their parents because of changes to society and loss of shared national identity.
Attempts to engage with the country's 1.8 million Muslims were failing because it treated them as a homogenous group, leaving some feeling excluded and ignored.
"Government policies to improve engagement with Muslims make things worse," the report's lead author Munira Mirza said. "The Government should stop emphasising difference and engage with Muslims as citizens, not through their religious identity." >> NOT TRUE: they were treated as regular British citizens before, and a lot of good that did <<
The issue of Muslim integration was highlighted in July 2005 when four British Islamists carried out suicide bombings in London killing 52 people.
The extent of the growth in extremism was made clear last year by Britain's domestic spy chief who said <b>security services were monitoring 1600 mostly UK-born suspects.</b>
The report said growing religiosity among young Muslims reflected a "search for meaning and community", a sense of disengagement that was shared by young people generally.
The study found 37 per cent of 16-24-year-old Muslims would prefer to live under Islamic sharia law than under British law compared to just 17 per cent of those aged over 55.
There was also far greater support for exhibiting their religious identity in public with 74 per cent of young Muslims preferring women to wear a veil or hijab compared to 28 per cent of the older generation.
Thirteen per cent of those aged 16-24 also agreed with the statement that they "admire organisations like al Qaeda that are prepared to fight the West" as opposed to just 3 per cent in the 55 and over age bracket.
- REUTERS<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
People are always excusing christoislamic terrorism:
(1) They are a minority and feel threatened by the majority who are dubbed 'communalist' or 'racist' (depending on the country under consideration)
(2) They need more money and resources poured into their education and improving their welfare. Then they will become better citizens
(3) Carve a bit of the nation to give them their own country, that will appease them
(4) Don't treat them as a separate group, treat them like citizens (Britain) and all your terrorist problems will melt away
(5) Give Palestinians lots of/all of Israel or give muslims Kashmir or help Chechnya or give them large tracts of Yugoslavian land and they will be good little kiddies again
Enough with the excuses. They will get everything for free and when there's nothing more to give, they'll continue the j-had anyway. The west needs to wake up, j-had is going to happen, sooner or later. Make it sooner, while the west still has a mostly non-islamic population and can still fight back to stem the tide of islamicisation. The longer they wait to do 'something' about the islamicisation and j-had, the more likely the turn of events will be an islamic west.
There's no negotiating with crazed religious zombies. People really ought to learn to say No Tolerance For Intolerance.