UK Muslims helping jihadis, says Cameron: Communities must stop 'quietly condoning' barbaric ISIS, PM warns in blunt speech
- Cameron will urge families to oppose ideology driving young people to ISIS
- Will ask parents to stop blaming police for failing to stop Syria-bound teens
- Some Muslims are guilty of normalising hatred of western values, he warns
- This 'quiet condoning' makes it easier for violent extremism to take hold
Warning: David Cameron will will urge
families to speak out against the ‘poisonous ideology’
driving hundreds
of young people to wage jihad for ISIS
Too many British Muslims ‘quietly condone’ extremism, David Cameron will say today.
In
a blunt speech, he will urge families to speak out against the
‘poisonous ideology’ driving hundreds of young people to wage jihad for
Islamic State.
The
Prime Minister will also call for parents to stop blaming police and
the security services for failing to prevent British teenagers heading
to Syria.
Parts
of the Muslim community are guilty of normalising hatred of democracy
and western values, he warns – making it easier for violent extremism to
take hold.
At
the weekend, 17-year-old Talha Asmal became Britain’s youngest suicide
bomber when he detonated a car loaded with explosives in the northern
Iraqi town of Baiji.
Speaking
at a major security conference in Slovakia, Mr Cameron will say: ‘We’ve
always had angry young men and women buying into supposedly
revolutionary causes. This one is evil, it is contradictory, it is
futile.’
But
he will point out it is easier to go from being a troubled teenager to a
jihadist if extremism ‘is quietly condoned online or perhaps even in
parts of your local community’.
Islamic State and its medieval outlook are ‘one of the biggest threats our world has faced’, the Prime Minister will add.
The
speech, made the day after the start of the holy festival of Ramadan,
is likely to spark anger in parts of the Muslim community.
But Downing Street said Mr Cameron believed parents must speak out.
A
source said people should ‘look at the radicalisation of people here in
the UK and what is going on in the areas where they live, their
households and their communities’.
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‘People
should voice their concerns,’ the source said. ‘There might be more
senior people in their community they want to talk to, or they can talk
to the authorities or the police.’
Mr Cameron’s intervention comes amid mounting concern about the radicalisation of young British Muslims.
Concerns: On Monday, it emerged that three British sisters and their nine children had travelled to Syria
On Monday, it emerged that three British sisters from Bradford and their nine children had travelled to join IS in Syria.
Suicide bomber Asmal’s family, from Dewsbury, also in West Yorkshire, said they were left ‘utterly devastated and heartbroken’.
Mr
Cameron will say the cases are part of a grave trend that threatens
Britain: ‘These are young people, boys and girls, leaving often loving,
well-to-do homes, good schools and bright prospects travelling thousands
of miles from home to strap explosives to their chests and blow
themselves up and kill innocent people.
Suicide bomber: 17-year-old Briton Talha Asmal
'To
live in a place where marriage is legal at nine and where women’s role
is to serve the jihadists, to be part of a so-called state whose
fanatics are plotting and encouraging acts of despicable terrorism in
the countries from which they have come.’
The
Prime Minister will further warn that they are driven by an extremist
ideology, parts of which have at least a foothold in ordinary British
Muslim communities.
He
will say: ‘It is an Islamist extremist ideology – one that says the
West is bad and democracy is wrong, that women are inferior and
homosexuality is evil.
‘It
says religious doctrine trumps the rule of law and caliphate trumps
nation state and it justifies violence in asserting itself and achieving
its aims. The question is: how do people arrive at this world view?
‘One
of the reasons is there are people who hold some of these views who
don’t go as far as advocating violence, but do buy into some of these
prejudices giving the extreme Islamist narrative weight and telling
fellow Muslims “you are part of this”. This paves the way for young
people to turn simmering prejudice into murderous intent. To go from
listening to firebrand preachers online to boarding a plane to Istanbul
and travelling to join the jihadis.’
Mr
Cameron will hit out at those in the Muslim community who have blamed
the security services for failing to stop the estimated 700 youngsters
who have travelled to join IS in recent months. ‘Too often we hear the
argument that radicalisation is the fault of someone else,’ he will say.
Today’s
speech has echoes of a 2011 address in which Mr Cameron blamed
multiculturalism for allowing the rise of extremism in Britain.
HOW FAMILIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE TRAVELLING TO SYRIA BLAMED POLICE
Runaway: 15-year-old Amira Abase, pictured
AMIRA ABASE
One
of three schoolgirls who ran away to join IS in February. Her father
Hussen refused to accept responsibility for his 15-year-old daughter’s
actions, and blamed the police instead.
It
later emerged that he had taken her to an extremist rally when she was
13. He conceded that she ‘may’ have been influenced by the protest,
which was staged by banned terror group Al-Muhajiroun.
SHAMIMA BEGUM
Only
15 when she travelled to become a ‘jihadi bride’ for IS terrorists. She
followed a girl from her school, Bethnal Green Academy, who fled to
Syria last year, prompting counter-terror police to investigate.
Her
sister Renu said: ‘We would have prevented it if we knew there was a
terrorism investigation, it would have made us know how serious it was.’
ZOHRA, KHADIJA AND SUGRA DAWOOD
Relatives
of the three sisters who travelled to Syria with their nine children
complained that they did not get proper ‘support and guidance’ from the
police.
NASSER AND ASEEL MUTHANA
Nasser
Muthana, 21, and his brother Aseel, now 18, travelled from Cardiff to
join jihadis last year. Nasser is suspected of involvement in a death
squad which beheaded Syrian soldiers.
Their
father Ahmed Muthana claimed white police officers had failed to win
the trust of Welsh Muslims. He said: ‘They didn’t employ the right
people. They didn’t let them melt into the community.’
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