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by Soeren Kern
• July 15, 2014 at 5:00 am
"The
guards don't run the prison, Islam does." — Tommy Robinson, upon his
release from prison.
"The
state is finding it harder to do its most basic duty, which is to protect
the public." — UK Home Secretary Theresa May.
The court
heard how he doused his wife with gasoline and set her on fire. His
defense attorney told the jurors, "He wasn't being listened to, he
wasn't being obeyed."
Tablighi
Jamaat -- a fundamentalist Islamic sect opposed to Western values such as
democracy and equal rights, but committed to "perpetual jihad"
to spread Islam around the world -- is fighting a no-holds-barred battle
to build a massive mosque complex in West Ham, a neighborhood in the East
London Borough of Newham.
Critics say
that attracting investments from Muslim investors is spurring the gradual
establishment of a parallel global financial system based on Sharia law.
An
image from the video "Right to choose: Spotting the signs of forced
marriage - Nayana", produced by the UK Foreign & Commonwealth
Office.
Islam and Islam-related issues were omnipresent in Britain during
the month of June 2014. They can be categorized into three broad themes:
1) The British government's growing concern over Islamic extremism and
the domestic security implications of British jihadists in Syria; 2) The
continuing spread of Islamic Sharia law in all aspects of British daily
life; and 3) Ongoing questions of Muslim integration into British
society.
1. Islamic Extremism and
Syria-Related Threats
The dramatic rise of the Sunni militant group the Islamic State of
Iraq and Syria [ISIS] in June added a new sense of urgency to the ongoing
debate over how to prevent British jihadists from carrying out terrorist
attacks in the UK upon their return from fighting in Syria.
British Prime Minister David Cameron warned on June 17 that British
citizens and other Europeans fighting alongside Islamist insurgents in Iraq
and Syria posed the biggest threat to Britain's national security.
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