British Government Efforts against "Extremists" Ignores Jihad and Islamic
Supremacism
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1. British Home Office RICU's Campaigns
2. UK MI5 Report and Related News/Commentary
3. UK - Sir Alan West
4. UK and Al-Qaeda
5. UK and Taliban
6. UK Polls and Studies
7. Commentaries on British Jihad and American Security
8. UK Mosques
9. UK - Sharia Law Courts
10. UK - August 2006 British Jihadist Transatlantic Jet Plotters'
Videos
11. UK - Dhiren Barot Plot
12. Northern Ireland and Sectarian Strife
13. UK and Abu Hamza Comments
14. Other UK News
15. US War on Supremacism
16. Controversy Over Al-Sharif aka Dr. Fadl
17. UK and Hezbollah
18. UK and Hamas
19. UK and Hizb ut-Tahrir
20. UK and Covenant of Security
21. Population References
22. Counter-Radicalization and Related Commentaries
1. British Home Office RICU's Campaigns:
August
26, 2008 - Guardian: Revealed: Britain's secret propaganda war against al-Qaida
-- BBC and website forums targeted by Home Office unit
August
26, 2008 - Guardian: Battle against al-Qaida brand highlighted in secret paper
August 26, 2008 - Evening Standard: Counter-terrorism unit launches global
propaganda campaign to 'taint the Al Qaeda brand'
-- "campaign aims to 'channel messages' through internet bloggers and chatroom
members as well as major media outlets such as the BBC"
August 26, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: BBC targeted in campaign to taint al-Qaeda
August 26, 2008 - AFP:
British agency pushing counter-terror propaganda to media: report
July 16,
2008 - False Reports of Jihadists "Quitting" or Abandoning Islamic Supremacism"
by Jeffrey Imm
- Alternate Link
June 24, 2008 - George
Washington Homeland Security Policy Institute: HSPI Hosts a panel discussion on:
"Words Matter: The Role of Lexicon in Counter-Terrorism Communications Strategy"
February 5, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: Don't mention Islamic terrorists, says guide
February 5, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: Islamist terrorists rebranded as 'criminals'
-- "guide was drawn up by the Research, Information and Communication Unit, a
new "hearts and minds" outfit in the Home Office"
November
20, 2007 - Guardian: Counter-terrorism officials rethink stance on Muslims
2. UK MI5 Report and Related News/Commentary:
August 24, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: How to target the extremists -- by Alasdair
Palmer
"People in MI5 tell me that denying the connection between Islamism and
terrorism derives from the belief that if you accept it, there's no hope for a
multicultural society in Britain: we would just have to recognise that part of
the population is permanently liable to become terrorists."
August
21, 2008 - Guardian: MI5 report challenges views on terrorism in Britain
February 18, 2008 -
BBC: Kidnap plot revealed by MI5 bug
November 10, 2006 - London Times: MI5 Speech - position on "fundamentalism"
July 3, 2006 - BBC: Al-Qaeda
'bid to infiltrate MI5' -- MI5 believes, from polls, that around 400,000
people in the UK are "sympathetic to violent jihad around the world", said Frank
Gardner.
UK's MI5: Infiltrated
by Islamists and Renegades? -- by Adrian Morgan
3. UK - Sir Alan West
March 16, 2008
- BBC: Not talking to al-Qaeda 'silly' -- Security Minister West
November 18, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Britain leads terror fight, insists Lord
West
November 19, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Lord West sparks fresh row
Profile: Admiral Sir
Alan West
July 31, 2007 - British Embassy, Washington, DC: Ask the Minister Webchat with
UK Home Office Security Minister Alan West
July 9, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Fight against terror could take 15 years
"We need to dig deeper as a country to find out why this particular form of
terrorist extremism is happening."
July 9, 2007
- DhimmiWatch.org - A tribute to Admiral Sir Alan West -- by Hugh Fitzgerald
4. UK and Al-Qaeda:
May 30,
2008 - Guardian: Time to talk to al-Qaida, senior police chief urges
May 30, 2008 - BBC:
Britain 'could talk to al-Qaeda'
-- Police Service of Northern Ireland chief Sir Hugh Orde
August 16, 2008 - Guardian: Ulster police chief briefs Bush over peace progress
March 16, 2008
- BBC: Not talking to al-Qaeda 'silly'
-- Security Minister West
March 15,
2008 - Guardian: Top Blair aide: we must talk to al-Qaida -- Former No 10 chief
says Irish peace process showed link to enemy needed
August
26, 2008 - Guardian: Revealed: Britain's secret propaganda war against al-Qaida
-- BBC and website forums targeted by Home Office unit
August 26, 2008 - Evening Standard: Counter-terrorism unit launches global
propaganda campaign to 'taint the Al Qaeda brand'
-- "campaign aims to 'channel messages' through internet bloggers and chatroom
members as well as major media outlets such as the BBC"
August 26, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: BBC targeted in campaign to taint al-Qaeda
5. UK and Taliban:
August 24, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: Fighting the Taliban: What it's really like
August 23, 2008 - AFP: Taliban not strategic threat to Afghanistan: Defence
minister
June 22, 2008 - London Times: Stop killing the Taliban – they offer the best
hope of beating Al-Qaeda - by Simon Jenkins
June 2,
2008 - New York Times: Taliban Leader Flaunts Power Inside Pakistan
--- Taliban Commander Baitullah Mehsud: Islam does not recognize boundaries...
There can be no deal with the United States."
March 29, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: We must talk to the Taliban, says UK Defense
Secretary Des Browne -- and talk to terrorist groups as well, such as Hezbollah
"What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe
that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence
into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be
delivered by politics,"
-- Telegraph quotes Browne that "Government should be negotiating with some
parts of the Taliban and Hizbollah."
March 29, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: Des Browne urges talks with extremist groups
December 26, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Gordon Brown called to explain Taliban
talks
-- "MI6 agents held a series of discussions, known as "jirgas", with 'important
motivating figures inside the Taliban'"
December 26, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Britain in secret talks with the Taliban
January 29, 2007 -
BBC: Pakistan Taleban vow more violence
-- "The militant leader on several occasions in the past had openly admitted
crossing over into Afghanistan to fight foreign troops."
-- "We will continue our struggle until foreign troops are thrown out. Then we
will attack them in the US and Britain until they either accept Islam or agree
to pay jazia (a tax in Islam for non-Muslims living in an Islamic state)."
June 9, 2008 - AP: US think tank: Pakistan helped train Taliban, gave info on US
troops
October 31, 2007 -
BBC: Pakistan militants firm on Sharia
6. UK Polls and Studies:
July 27,
2008 - London Times: A third of Muslim students back killings - Radicalism and
support for sharia is strong in British universities
July 2008 -
Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC) Full Report - "Islam on Campus" - YouGov poll
on Muslim students
Centre for Social Cohesion report "Virtual Caliphate: Islamic extremists and
their websites"
May 18, 2008 - Independent: Britain is focal point for terrorism, warns Europe's
police force
-- "Europol warned that the UK was recognised as fertile ground for radical
Islamists seeking recruits to their jihadist campaigns, with "young, radicalised
British citizens" often used to mount attacks"
EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report TE-SAT 2008 -- Europol
Page 11: Shows 201 Islamist Terror Arrests for all of Europe, except for UK
Page 11: Shows 203 Total Terror Arrests for UK
Page 12: "Although no affiliation could be assigned, UK authorities estimate
that, out of the 203 persons arrested in 2007, the vast majority were in
relation to Islamist terrorism."
Page 21: "young, radicalised British citizens"
August 20, 2007 - Daily Mail: A third of Britons believe: 'You can't be British
AND Muslim'
August 2, 2007 - Daily Mail: One in 11 British Muslims backs suicide bombers,
says Brown aide
"This centres on persuading Muslims that the covenant of security that in return
for safety and freedom, Muslims do not attack the nation that is their home -
has been broken by draconian anti-terror laws and the war in Iraq."
July 8, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Not in their name?
June 4, 2007 - UK - Channel 4 Survey: 'government hasn't told truth about 7/7'
May 7, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: '4,000 terror suspects in UK'
January 30, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Young, British Muslims 'getting more
radical'
January 29,
2007 - Policy Exchange Study: Living apart together
November 18, 2006 - Daily Telegraph: Islamic fanatics 'grooming students at 25
universities'
November 7,
2006 - London Times: How radical Islam turned a schoolboy into a terrorist
July 23, 2005 - Daily Telegraph: One in four Muslims sympathises with motives of
terrorists
Channel 4 Dispatches Documentary: Undercover Mosque: The Return Documentary
Channel 4 Dispatches Documentary: Britain Under Attack from Jihad
Channel 4 Dispatches Documentary: Undercover Mosques
Channel 4 Dispatches Documentary: From Jail to Jihad
November 14, 2006 BBC Documentary on Mosques and Hizb-ut-Tahir
7. Commentaries on British Jihad and American Security:
July 28, 2008 - Britain's monstrous sleep of reason -- by Melanie Phillips
July 2, 2008 - The Disastrous United Kingdom Approach to Addressing Islamic
Supremacism - by Jeffrey Imm
Adrian Morgan's Family Security Matters Articles on UK and Related Subjects
Adrian Morgan's Family
Security Matters Pre-May 8, 2008 Articles on UK and Related Subjects
How The UK Threatens
US Security (Pt 1) - by Adrian Morgan
How The UK Threatens
US Security (Pt 2) - by Adrian Morgan
How The UK
Threatens US Security (Pt 3) - by Adrian Morgan
August 16, 2006 - How The Road To Terror Leads Back To London - by Jeffrey Imm
November 6, 2006 - Road to Terror Continues to Lead to UK - by Jeffrey Imm
8. UK Mosques:
September 1, 2008 - Channel 4: Undercover Mosque: The Return Documentary
August 31, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: Preachers of separatism at work inside
Britain's mosques
August 31, 2008 - London Times: Women preachers at moderate mosque 'urge
faithful to kill gays'
August 30, 2008 - Daily Mail: Revealed: Saudi women preaching hate in the
British mosque that promised to clean up its act 18 months ago
August 22, 2008 - Guardian: Channel 4 announces return of Undercover Mosque
August 22, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: Channel 4's 'Undercover Mosque' returns
August 22, 2008 - Commentary: UK: New Documentary to Show Growing Islamic
Supremacism in Mosques - by Jeffrey Imm
September 8, 2007 - London Times: Our followers 'must live in peace until strong
enough to wage jihad'
September 7, 2007 - London Times: Hardline takeover of British mosques
-- "Almost half of Britain's mosques are under the control of a hardline Islamic
sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to
"shed blood" for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found."
September
7, 2007 - London Times: The homegrown cleric who loathes the British
-- "The leading preacher of a hardline Islamic sect which controls almost half
of British mosques delivers a message filled with anger at non-Muslims"
-- "The Deobandis run more than 600 of the 1,300 mosques in Britain and their
seminaries – known as darul uloom – produce the vast majority of British-trained
Islamic clerics"
January 15, 2007 - Channel 4 - Undercover Mosque
August 4, 2007 - Global
Politician: Finsbury Park: Inside the British Jihad - by Pratik Chougule
January
21, 2003 - London Times: Arms found in mosque terror raid
Finsbury Mosque's
terror connections
9. UK - Sharia Law Courts:
February 7, 2008 - BBC:
Sharia law in UK is 'unavoidable'
June 20,
2008 - Los Angeles Times: Islamic law finds a role in Britain
UK Muslim Arbitration Tribunal -
Sharia Court
10. UK - August 2006 British Jihadist Transatlantic Jet
Plotters' Videos:
April 10, 2008 - BBC:
Bin Laden 'inspired bomb plotter'
April 4, 2008 - BBC:
'Suicide videos': What they said
April 4, 2008 - AFP: Would-be plane bombers made suicide videos: prosecutor
April 4, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: 'Airline terror plotters wanted heavy
casualties'
April 7, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: Terror suspects 'planned to take children on
suicide mission'
April 7, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: Terror jury shown martyrdom videos
April 4, 2008 - London Times: Airline bomb plotters made martyrdom videos, court
hears
April 5, 2008 - Daily Mail: British Muslims in airliner terror plot 'talked of
taking families on suicide missions'
April 7, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: 'Airline terror plotters planned bigger 9/11'
April 7, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Britain 'could stage another September 11'
11. UK - Dhiren Barot Plot:
November 7,
2006 - London Times: How radical Islam turned a schoolboy into a terrorist
November 7, 2006 - CBS: British Terror Plotter Gets Life In Prison
November 6, 2006 - Road to Terror Continues to Lead to UK - by Jeffrey Imm
12. Northern Ireland and Sectarian Strife
Wikipedia: The Troubles - The political process
Wikipedia: Irish Republicanism in Northern Ireland
The Da Vinci Code
MoveOn.org
Attacks Church, Pope
13. UK and Abu Hamza Comments
January
12, 2006 - London Times: Hamza 'showed followers how to kill the enemy'
Finsbury Mosque's
terror connections
Hamza's sermons
Abu Hamza:
his 'vile rants'
In quotes: Hamza's
preachings
14. Other UK News:
British Jihad and Islamic Supremacism Watch
UK Proscribed Terrorist Groups
February 28, 2008 - Daily Mail: Bobbies will be taught sharia law and the Koran
in 'secret' plan to counter terror at local level
Neil Doyle Agency
February 13, 2007 - BBC: Somalia Britons face terror quiz
February 13, 2007 - AP: Britons suspected of fighting with Islamic forces in
Somalia returning home
January 10, 2007 -
JihadWatch.org: Somali jihad "funded in Britain"
August 2, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: British Muslims 'fighting with Taliban in
Afghanistan'
--
Alternate Link:
August 2, 2008 - London Times: British Muslims aid Taliban in attacks on UK
soldiers in Afghanistan
January 15, 2002 - Daily Telegraph: US has not ruled out execution of Taliban
Britons
October 30, 2001 - Daily Telegraph: Britons who join Taliban to face trial
July 17, 2006 -- London Times: Train bombers 'funded by British businessmen' -
Indian officials claim that bogus charities are sending £8m to Kashmiri terror
groups
March 23, 2006 - Financial Times: British brothers joining Jihad court told
-- "group of British 'brothers' had gone to Pakistan after the 9/11 attacks in
the US to join the Jihad"
February 22, 2008 - Jamestown Foundation: The Pakistan Connection to the United
Kingdom's Jihad Network - by James Brandon
October 3,
2004 - Guardian/Observer: London mosque link to Beslan
March 3, 2005 - Briton fights U.S. extradition
-- "British computer expert ran Web sites recruiting fighters and raising funds
for the Taliban and Chechen mujahedin"
October
7, 2004 - CNN: Briton charged in terror conspiracy
March 2, 2007 - MEMRI: Arab Reformist Website: 'Britain is the Largest Exporter
of Terrorism in the Non-Muslim World'
Investigative Project on Terrorism: Muslim Brotherhood (page 1): "According
to al-Banna, 'It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to
impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.'"
-- Fereydoun Hoveryda, The Broken Crescent, (Westport, CT: Praegar Publishers,
2002), p. 56.
15. US War on Supremacism:
July 2, 2008 - Crossroads in History: The Struggle against Jihad and Supremacist
Ideologies - by Jeffrey Imm
-- PDF format - thanks to CICENTRE.COM
-- Cicentre.com Posting:
-- Alternate
Link 2:
African American Registry: The Ku Klux Klan - A Brief Biography
Wikipedia: Ku Klux Klan
16. Controversy Over Al-Sharif aka Dr. Fadl
July 18, 2008 - False Reports of Jihadists "Quitting" or Abandoning Islamic
Supremacism - by Jeffrey Imm
-- Alternate Link
July 13, 2008 - Guardian/Observer - The heretic - part two - More on how
Al-Qaeda's mastermind turned his back on terror - by Lawrence Wright
July 27,
2007 - Guardian: Violence won't work: how author of 'jihadists' bible' stirred
up a storm
July 27, 2007 -
JihadWatch.org: Repentant jihadist renounces violence -- sort of
May 9, 2007 -
JihadWatch.org: Egypt: Jailed Al-Qaeda Ideologue Urges Halt to Attacks
Contradicting Islamic Law
17. UK and Hezbollah:
July 2, 2008 - CNN: UK ban for Hezbollah military arm
-- "The order does not apply to Hezbollah's political or social activities"
March 3, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: Labour, extremism and a friend of Hizbollah --
by Philip Johnston
December 6, 2007 - Jerusalem Post: Hizbullah editor allowed entry into UK
December 5, 2007 - Jerusalem Post: Britain's moral maze - by Daniel Scott
November 17, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Ban Hizbollah TV boss from UK, say Tories
18. UK and Hamas:
July 18, 2008 - How Britain Helps Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood Part One (of
Two) - Family Security Matters - Adrian Morgan
August 7, 2008 - How Britain Helps Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood Part Two (of
Two) - Family Security Matters - Adrian Morgan
August
17, 2007 - Reuters: Britain's Hamas boycott counterproductive - lawmakers
September 6, 2006 - Daily Telegraph: Desperate flight of failed British suicide
bomber
--- they "were the first foreign nationals used by the Palestinian group Hamas
to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel."
April 20,
2006 - Ynet: UK wants 'normal relations' with Hamas
U.S. Treasury:
"Interpal, headquartered in the UK, has been a principal charity utilized to
hide the flow of money to HAMAS. Reporting indicates it is the conduit through
which money flows to HAMAS from other charities, e.g., the Al Aqsa Foundation,
and that it oversees the activities of other charities. "
December 13, 2006 -
The Muslim Charity Britain Refuses To Ban - Family Security Matters - Adrian
Morgan
Israel bans British group over links to Hamas -- Interpal, also known as the
Palestinian Relief and Development Fund
July 16, 2004 - WorldnetDaily.com: London terror conference vows to stop pullout
-- featured "representatives of Hamas, Islamic Jihad"
August 20,
2007 - Israel National News: Great Britain: Center of Hamas Incitement
19. UK and Hizb ut-Tahrir
August 19, 2008 -
JihadWatch.org: Hizb ut Tahrir London meeting: an eyewitness report
July 20, 2008 - Daily Express: Islamist Launch PR "War" Against Western Values
April 19, 2008 - Daily Telegraph: Islamists 'urge young Muslims to use violence'
February 27, 2008 - East London Advertiser: Muslim pressure group wins
anti-democracy vote
August 6, 2007 - New York Times: London Gathering Defends Vision of Radical
Islam -- Hizb ut-Tahrir
July 8, 2007 - Daily Telegraph: Islamic charity linked to car bomb suspect
July
8, 2007 - London Times: How I befriended a Glasgow bomb suspect and Islamic
radical
December 4, 2006 - Daily Mail: Home Office staff can join Islamic extremists
November 15, 2006 - Daily Mail: Leading member of Muslim extremist group working
at the Home Office
November 15, 2006 -
Earth Times: Member of muslim extremist group found working for British home
office
November 14, 2006 BBC Documentary on Mosques and Hizb-ut-Tahir
July 10, 2005 - New York Times: For a Decade, London Thrived as a Busy
Crossroads of Terror
July 8, 2005 -
London Explosions - A message from Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain to the Muslim
community
Hizb-ut Tahrir's Web Site
Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain
GlobalSecurity.org: Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Party of Liberation)
20. UK and Covenant of Security
September 13, 2001 - Daily Telegraph: Britain is 'safe haven' for world
terrorism
January 26, 2003 - Guardian/Observer: All eyes on Britain as terror war
accelerates
September
12, 2003 - CNN: Group hails 9/11 'Magnificent 19'
August 9, 2004 - New
Statesman: Why terrorists love Britain -- by Jamie Campbell
"it has long been recognised by the British Islamists, by the British government
and by UK intelligence agencies, that as long as Britain guarantees a degree of
freedom to the likes of Hassan Butt, the terrorist strikes will continue to be
planned within the borders of the UK but will not occur here"
July 10, 2005 - New York Times: For a Decade, London Thrived as a Busy
Crossroads of Terror
September
29, 2005 - London Times: The day when Osama bin Laden applied for asylum – in
Britain
July 12, 2006 - MEMRI:
Exiled British Islamist Sheikh Omar bin Bakri in Beirut: We Will See the Banner
of Islam 'Flying Over Big Ben and the British Parliament'
March 2, 2007 - MEMRI: Arab Reformist Website: 'Britain is the Largest Exporter
of Terrorism in the Non-Muslim World'
June 12, 2008 -
Asia Times: A search for unity - Interview by Mahan Abedin of Omar Bakri
Mohammed
August 20,
2008 - London Times: BBC charity funded jihadists
Londonistan - Melanie Philips (pages 92-105) - UK Hardcover edition
Terror Base UK - Inside A Secret War: Neil Doyle (page 172)
21. Population References:
CIA - World Factbook: United Kingdom - population 60,943,912 (July 2008 est.)
Wikipedia:
Islam in the United Kingdom
1920 United States
Census
22. Counter-Radicalization and Related Commentaries:
August 21, 2008 - Leaked Data on Radicalization in the UK - Counterterrorism
Blog - by Matthew Levitt
-- Alternate Link:
July 17, 2008 -
The Way Back from Islamism - Counterterrorism Blog - by Matthew Levitt
August 19, 2008 - Ideological Blinders and Missed Opportunities in
Counter-Radicalization - Counterterrorism Blog - by Matthew Levitt
August 27, 2008 - Counterradicalization in the Netherlands - Counterterrorism
Blog - by Lorenzo Vidino
June 2008 -
West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) Sentinel: Engaging Islamists in the
West - by Peter Mandaville (page 5)
July
2008 - West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) Sentinel: Why Terrorists
Quit: Gaining From Al-Qa'ida's Losses - by Michael Jacobson (page 1)
August 2008
- Combating Terrorism Center - The Sentinel - A Preliminary Assessment of
Counter-
Radicalization in the Netherlands - by Lorenzo Vidino (page 12)