This article indicates the growing focus of Britain's intelligence community on young Somalis leaving Britain allegedly to train with Al Shabab. Not surprisingly useless Tory prat and rent a quote Patrick Mercer MP also graces us with his usual scaremongering nonsense. The good colonel who I have written about previously has now claimed without a shred of evidence that a "steady stream" of young Somalis are heading back to fight a jihad.
While London Muslim does not underestimate the challenges of integrating one of Britain's newest immigrant communities, comments from that well known racist Tory MP attempting to stigmatise and stereotype a large proportion of decent law abiding citizens is at best not helpful and at worse a pathetic attempt to appeal to the racist audience who love to feed off fear.
Scaremongering, you say, but could it possibly be something more sinister?
ReplyDeletePatrick Mercer does consultancy work for security firms like Blue Hackle , Red Amber, Olive Group and fact-finding visits to Afghanistan and Pakistan, furthermore, I understand that such security firms can make millions from such troubled countries.
Let us hypothesize, and I do mean tentative conclusions. In the time before Mr Mercer voted to wage war on Iraq he was very doubtful that Saddam Hussein had the capability to deliver weapons of mass destruction or that there were links between Iraq and terrorists, such conclusions, may not have been what security firms wanted to hear, war being more profitable than peace. Then something happened to dispel those doubts and our man Mercer seemed to be a lot more agreeable to the idea of war in Iraq and proclaimed that Saddam Hussein needs to be pushed to the wire militarily, if we want peace, we must vote for war. I would imagine the security firms delighted in such rhetoric.
The people of this country had "peace", until politicians like Mercer made in the hearts and minds of Muslims righteous anger for the thousands of deaths of their fellow innocent Muslim men, women and children killed by bombing and pre-emptive attacks by the accumulated evil of the whole.
Just because Muslim lands have oil or strategic location for pipelines (Afghanistan) it does not give us the right to slaughter Muslims in their own country.
Some would say that Mr Mercer had taken every opportunity to fan the flames of war and that any politician that works for security firms may have a vested interest and ought not to be allowed to vote on matters of war and security. All of this is hypothesising, but what if any part of it was fact and not fiction, would anybody care or be shocked by the enormity of such behaviour? I think not but I could be wrong.