Pakistan’s Problems Are Becoming Britain’s
The Pakistani High Commission in London is pleading for the young men to be allowed to stay in the United Kingdom as they are desperately poor and need to complete their studies. It is also seeking an apology for the arrests.
What does this have to do with the Taliban taking over Pakistan as I write this piece?
The thousands of young men who migrate from Pakistan to the United Kingdom each year to study and who eventually settle into arranged marriages are, according to the Muslim writer Yasmin Alibhai Brown, fodder for terror because the tradition of arranged marriages generates a legion of frustrated boys who “need an outlet.” Yasmin is no friend to Israel but to her credit she does not engage in the knee-jerk tactic used by other European and British journalists who blame Israel for the actions of every angry young Muslim. Her theory is an interesting one: miserably unhappy boys can easily be turned into terrorists when their day is spent listening to radical imams and attending incendiary lectures in British madrassas. They return home to a loveless marriage and cannot wait to return to the mosque for companionship and inspiring sermons.
During the police raids, covered with considerable depth on British television and in the print media, emphasis was placed on the curious process by which young Pakistanis are allowed entry to the United Kingdom. There are agencies inside Pakistan given the sole brief of providing young men with visas and papers that afford them a year of study in a British school of English. Some young people apply through the traditional channels for admission to British universities but still need permission to enter and study. The media stressed the “supermarket” nature of this process that many feel allowed potential terrorists to gain entry to Britain.
In turn, Pakistan’s leaders answered these accusations by asserting they were trying their damndest to prevent terrorists from emigrating. Now that the raids have resulted in the release of all twelve but the proposed deportation of eleven, the aforementioned Pakistani embassy in London and Anglo-Muslim community organizations are enraged. The Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK (MPACUK)’s bloggers assert that “Sky Jews” (Sky News channel) influenced the public’s thinking on the raids.
Meanwhile the Taliban march towards the capital of Pakistan and politicians across the globe raise alarm bells. As Douglas Murray and I pointed out two years ago at an event in London, though we supported the Iraq and Afghanistan operations, Pakistan should have been the focus of the United States and its allies. Its madrassas have been producing incendiary speeches by radical imams and though Saudi Arabia is equally to blame for similar fodder, Pakistan poses an existential threat to neighboring India. It is an ideal stepping-off point for Afghanistan’s reversion to a Taliban dictatorship and expansionist intentions. The intelligence services and police have been silent about the eleven young men arrested and now being deported, but one does not have to be a rocket scientist to deduce that there was good reason to send them away from the British homeland. Pakistan is the Wild West now that Musharraf is gone and Britain must be vigilant about the arrival of thousands of young “students.”
As the situation in Pakistan worsens my inclination would be for the British government to place severe restrictions on entry of Pakistani nationals and for the “easy visa” study program to be halted without delay.
Pakistan’s problems are the world’s.
I trust the President has a RUTHLESS contingency plan, in the event of the fall of the Pakistani government, for the removal or neutralisation of Pakistan’s atomic arsenal.
If the Taliban get their hands on just one critical amount of weapons grade fissionable material, it will wind up in a bomb in New York or London. It might take years, but 9/11 showed that the psychopaths have patience.
No, they will bomb India. The resulting nuclear conflagration (throw in a few Chem and Bio attacks) will (the jihadis would hope) result in a greater global conflict. They are (at their very core) nihilists. A world bombed back to the 8th century would suit a nomadic goat herding and slave holding society just fine (the definition of the Arab during that time).
I don’t trust a word coming out of Pakistan now. Without a Republican, I fear, it will be free reign for jihadists again.
Their media too is part of the problem. If only they had Fox News, with Mohammed O’Reilly.
Fox News is good. But so long as there is only one Fox News, it can be ignored and marginalized. Conservative talk radio is good, but radio isn’t that big anymore. It’s not so big that it can’t be threatened by waving The Fairness Doctrine.
A second over-the-air conservative network would not mean we have turned the corner. It might mean that the corner is in sight … or that the attacks on free speech from the Left are about to get desperate. At that point, the Left will not just be unprincipled, they will not care who knows it. Or, more accurately, they will not care who knows just what their principles are.
I trust the President has a RUTHLESS contingency plan, in the event of the fall of the Pakistani government, for the removal or neutralisation of Pakistan’s atomic arsenal.
Obama have a ruthless plan? LOL! The only ruthless plan he has is to crush all conservative opposition in the USA.
The Islamists are his allies.
As for the issue of the UK, since the Pakistanis will help to make the UK Judenfrei by attacking Jews and driving them out, I really don’t see why the Brits would do anything to stop this influx.
For the average European (and Brits are Europeans, even if they don’t want to hear it) hates the Jews 1000x more than he/she can ever hate the most violent Islamist.
Eric R: If the Brits really do hate the Jews more than the Islamists, and are willing to put up with the latter in order to get rid of the former, then all I can say is, they’ll deserve what they get.
There’s also a danger of Great Britain becoming a haven for terrorism. What then?
Under the rule of tolerance, and non-judgmentalism, third-world problems become everybody’s problems! (for instance, loveless, arranged marriages, and the unhappy people they produce). Ain’t multiculturalism grand?
/sarc.
I don’t think that there’s much to be done about the state of immigrating Islamofascists. They could deport the 11 alleged men; they could deport 11,000 of them a year but it won’t really matter. Like America, the British government has turned a mostly-blind eye to rampant immigration, but what makes it even more ludicrous in the UK is that much of the unchecked flow of immigrants was done somewhat legally, as in the case above.
I may never get why modern democracies have such a difficult time understanding the need to secure their borders in this day and age. America has an 8%+ unemployment rate (and rising; thanks, liberals!), but we have 20 million+ “undocumented workers” here making sure the unemployment rate doesn’t go below 4%.
And in both countries, the bleeding-hearts don’t want anyone to get their widdle feewings hurt, so it’s taboo to call it what it is.
Eric R, there are many Brits like me who are pro-Israel and who believe never again should mean just that. We have a far left government and a corrupted media, just as you have now, both show anti-Jewish attitudes, should I now paint all Americans as anti-Jewish because of that, nope. If only you realised how much the normal (non-left) British population dislikes Muslims, you would not come out with such rubbish!
It surprises me that there has not been universal condemnation of the British media for revealing details about planned raids — details that in no way can be considered news of interest or value to the public.
Is it irrational of me to conclude that the press wanted to sabotage the operation? Isn’t that a crime, as it would be if I struggled with a police officer to try to prevent him from arresting a suspect?
Meanwhile, note that the Muslim community in Britain seems united in its opposition to the deportation of these would-be killers. Events like this lead me to argue that the very existence of the “moderate Muslim” is an issue that can be debated. The Bad Guys find that their co-religionists shelter, support and aid them in their violent version of jihad. That is a fact with implications nobody wants to talk about.
The real danger is not in the individual jihadis, IMHO, but in the Muslim communities. Without strong social support, the violent types would be much, much easier to identify and apprehend. The locals know who they are.
Consider the situation in southern Thailand, where entire villages have formed human walls to prevent the authorities from rescuing female Buddhist teachers and male military personnel the jihadis kidnapped and literally tortured to death. The cops don’t dare fire on the women and children blocking rescue efforts. The Muslims know that.
“Moderate”? In spite of the obvious fact that some such persons exist in the Muslim world, I remain convinced that they have a trivial impact on the values and behavior of the overwhelming majority of believers. Britain has to face that fact.
The folly of bad immigration policy….!
#2 Don:
“No, they will bomb India.”
No, they will bomb a city in the US (or perhaps the UK).
Bin Laden has explicitly said that it is a “sacred duty” for muslims to acqiure nuclear weapons, and also to kill Americans by any means, including bio, chemical and nuclear. A “sacred duty”.
Head out of sand, Don.
obama heralds he end of the free world and any ideas of peace anywhere in the world. He is not a real bright rock, actually the dumbest one in the box.
His arrogance and stupidity is going to end the whole mess and he will be blaming it on Bush. Should prove interesting to watch, but not fun.
These so-called colleges are utterly bogus, and these aren’t students. Not saying they are all terrorists, but they are no use to us. England is crowded. Why let them in?
Britain needs to not only cease allowing Muslims to come to Britain, it needs to actively start making those already there feel unwelcome enough to head back to wherever they came from.
Aggressive investigations of imams, mosques, tax records and Muslim students would be a very good way to start. Muslims seem to have a very cavalier attitude toward “infidel” British law. That needs to stop immendiately. If Muslims are going to be in Britain, they need to start acting British. That means no special treatment that non-Muslims don’t receive. If Muslims aren’t willing to accept that, then they should be shown the door posthaste. If the entire lot decamped it would probably be a net gain for Britain.
The UK government hasn’t grasped the first thing you do when you are in a hole – stop digging. Someone should just pick up the phone and tell the High Commission in Karachi to stop issuing student visas to Pakistani nationals TFN. Then require all those legally in this country to check-in at their nearest police station with an address and details of their educational activities.
And has banning Michael Savage’s entry in Britain added to the country’s security and well being?
RE #10/Benson: [...] It surprises me that there has not been universal condemnation of the British media for revealing details about planned raids — details that in no way can be considered news of interest or value to the public. [...]
Benson, never heard about Dana Priest, Eric Lichtblau and Don Baquat situation? This type of actions are not damnable but deserve great appreciation!
But…but…but…I thought Pakistan was our ally and Iraq was the central front in the War on Terror.
Oh yeah…that was just the lies George Bush told us.
“But…but…but…I thought”
Keep practicing that. Eventually you might get it right.
The cell phone,I was talking to them and heard them die. Why go to the vfw when they can drink and potluck at home.
This planet is so deadly a mosquito can kill you.