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by Guy Millière • June 24, 2017
at 5:00 am
- In
spite of three attacks in three months, Britain does not seem
to be choosing the path of vigilance and determination. June
is not even over but the media barely talk about terrorism any
more.
- Then,
in the early hours of June 19, a man who acted alone drove a
van into a crowd of Muslims leaving Finsbury Park Mosque in
London: the main "threat" to the British right now
was soon presented in several newspapers as
"Islamophobia".
- Decolonization
added the idea that the Europeans had oppressed other peoples
and were guilty of crimes they now had to redeem. There was no
mention of how, throughout history, recruits to Islam had
colonized the great Christian Byzantine Empire, Greece,
Sicily, Corsica, North Africa and the Middle East, most of the
Balkans and eastern Europe, Hungary, northern Cyprus and
Spain.
- While
most jihadist movements were banned by the British government,
more discreet organizations have emerged and demurely sent the
same message. The Islamic Forum for Europe, for example,
depicts itself as "peaceful", but many of those it
invites to speak are anything but that. The Islamic Human
Rights Commission uses the language of defending human rights
to disseminate violent statements against the Jews and the
West.

The most
famous of Britain's radical Islamic preachers, Anjem Choudary
(pictured holding the microphone), was recently sentenced to five
years and six months in prison for his open support of the Islamic
State, but hundreds of imams throughout the country continue
similar work. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
London, June 5, 2017. A minute of silence is held at
Potters Field Park, next to the City Hall, to pay tribute to the
victims of the London Bridge jihadist attack three days before.
Those who came have brought flowers, candles and signs bearing the
usual words: "unity", "peace" and
"love". Faces are sad but no trace of anger is visible.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, a Muslim, gives a speech
emphasizing against all evidence that the killers' ideas have
nothing to do with Islam.
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