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| Race war fear after Islamic terrorists target EDL | |
| 2013-04-30 | |
| Violent extremists may focus atrocities on anti-Islamic groups to not only cause death and carnage but fuel religious hatred, experts said. The warning came as six al-Qaeda inspired terrorists admitted plotting to attack an English Defence League rally with homemade bombs, guns and knives. The outrage was only narrowly averted by sheer luck and the Birmingham gang's own incompetence, even though one of the men was under watch by MI5 and the police. The planned attack was also timed last year to wreck the Queen's Jubilee celebrations.
The Government is concerned over growing tensions between Muslim and far right extremists while MI5 accept the EDL could become a target for jihadists. Tommy Robinson, the EDL leader, last night warned should there be another 7/7 outrage "this whole country is going to go up." Raffaello Pantucci, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said: "It is a real and live concern and one I know the Government has been worrying about, particularly in light of this case. "You are talking about a spectrum here. At one end you have inflammatory events like we have seen (at protests) and at the other you have groups like this who are actually planning to carry out an atrocity. "You are going to get more of this" Dr Matthew Feldman, an expert in extremism from Teesside University, warned of "tit for tat extremism" that could make non-violent members of society "be made to feel that have to choose sides". Keith Vaz, chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, said: "I am appalled by this new development, with a terrorist group targeting a specific group for their views. "Such activities could lead to reprisals, and disorder between different groups." MI5 fear the EDL could now become a target for Islamic extremists especially as they grow in profile, the Daily Telegraph understands They were concerned by the fact a specific group had been targeted rather than the public in general and accept there is tension in some towns. However, there is no evidence of a coordinated plan to target them. Mr Robinson warned a successful UK terror attack would result in "a defining moment" and produce a reaction. "God forbid it happening," he said. "But I think we have our fingers on the pulse and if something like 7/7 happens this whole country is going to go up." | |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Once again, how is the Royal Navy going to save France + EU from the Hard Boyz iff there is no longer any viable Royal Navy + Other to speak of, + the UK devols into Britanistan/ Londinistan - by definition, "Jihad in France" infers an ineffective NATO-EU, + that either Germany + Russia have fallen or else are not able to intervene??? just sayin. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-04-30 21:57 |
| #1 Note the labeling of the EDL as extremists and the terrorists merely as Muslims. PC moral relativism and self-hatred is alive and well in the UK. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-04-30 19:26 |