Britain: One Of The Best Places In The World For Jihadis

From Creeping Sharia:

Britain – one of best places in world for jihadis


Posted on January 16, 2011 by creeping

Douglas Murray, whose experiences with sharia and jihad in the UK we’ve posted on before, via Jihad against justice
The Spectator.



For a jihadi, Britain is one of the very best places in the world. In Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, overhead drones kill terrorists on a regular basis. In most democratic countries, politicians try to limit their enemies’ ability to operate — so one runs the risk of being thrown into prison, if caught mid-jihad. But not in Britain. Here, the Islamist insurgents have found that there are a hundred ways to run rings around our police and justice system. Nothing demonstrates this more spectacularly than the control orders farce.



Control orders are an inelegant system for putting restrictions on terror suspects, either because the evidence which could convict them is too sensitive to be used in a criminal court, or because European human rights laws prevent them from being deported. Eight people are being detained under control orders, with the suspects under curfew, electronic tagging, a travel ban or other restrictions. The system is understandably popular, but it seems certain that David Cameron will allow his Lib Dem colleagues to claim victory by altering the name and tinkering with the terms.



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Britain is only in this mess because of the European Convention. Time and again, judicial decisions have demonstrated that the convention — though it has many benefits — cannot protect a nation’s security. Time and again, the wellbeing of those intent on the murder of people in this country has overridden the rights of the lawful majority. The clear solution is to change how we treat the convention. We might do what France and Italy have done, and ignore it on occasions. Or we could pull out altogether — creating a new British bill of rights, as David Cameron once promised to do. This bill of rights would take precedence over anything pronounced in Strasbourg.



As the jihadis know only too well, Britain’s hands are tied. For as long as we are subservient to European law, we can neither detain our British enemies nor deport our foreign enemies. We are simply stuck with them. As Prime Minister, Cameron will have been given a full briefing about the extent of the jihadi threat — and about the near-misses. He will know that, even if we do not want a war on terror, the terrorists are very much at war with us. And if it comes to choosing between saving the neck of the Lib Dems or saving British lives, the Prime Minister should know what is expected of him