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Tuesday, 13 January 2015

PARIS, ISLAMIC TERRORISM AND THE NEW LABOUR CONNECTION

On Sunday, January 12th in Paris we saw one of the great moments of modern history. Two million or more men, women and children, mostly French but many of other nationalities, led by 40 political leaders from around the world marched to uphold the great principle of Liberty, for the idea of freedom of expression that France and its people gave to the world at the end of the 18th century. This great, joyous and quite frankly heroic march against the Islamic fundamentalist threat to silence and destroy that idea in the barbaric murders of French journalists, satirical cartoonists, police and French Jewish citizens, 17 people in all, will live in our minds for the rest of our lives and go down in history as an example of human beings of many nationalities, races and religions standing together as one in the face of a twisted perverted religion to silence them and our modern universal spirit of freedom.

Many people around the world witnessed this great coming together on television. For most of us it was a symbol of hope. For those on the march it was a symbol simply of being together for a great common cause. Who of those watching it could fail to be moved? Fail to be inspired by the people of Paris, by the citizens of the French Republic, because between those world leaders on the march whether conservative or liberal, the great mass of people and the police there to protect them there was a real common bond, that of the principle of freedom. The refusal to be terrorized into silence.

Many of us undoubtedly had our own individual high moments. For me two events stood out among so many others. That of a group of young French children holding up a placard on which was painted a bright yellow flower and singing the stirring national anthem of the French Republic, the Marseillaise. Secondly that of a police marksman standing high on a roof directly over the march and raising his arm in salute to the hundreds of thousands parading below. His great symbolic gesture brought endless roars of approval from the crowds below because here a policeman of the Republic protecting its people was telling those people that they were together as one. That he was defending their right to march for the principle of freedom! It was all great and fine only maybe we should consider for a moment where it all actually began.

So where did it all actually begin, this great march from the Place of the Republic? Was it just with the murders of journalists, police and French Jews a short time back or were the killings that led to the march inspired much earlier, years back in time to the end of the 20th century? We know that the Kouachi brothers, who murdered the journalists had strong terrorist connections with the Yemen. One received military training and religious indoctrination there by an Al Qaeda fundamentalist preacher. The other, Cherif, served time in a French prison from 2008 for terrorist recruitment where he met and became a disciple of Al Qaeda lynchpin Djamel Beghal. As it turns out this meeting was more than significant because it marks a key stage on the road to mass murder.

Arrested in 2001 over allegations of involvement in a bomb plot and released in 2010, Beghal comes to our attention as someone with serious fundamentalist cred. In the mid-1990s he headed a puritanical extremist Islamist group in Western Europe initially financed by Bin Laden but was then dropped by him for being too much of a loose cannon. Undeterred he spent time regularly travelling Britain during in the late 1990s recruiting young British Muslims for jihad, finding the climate around the Finsbury Park Mosque particularly congenial. Already a notorious anti-Semite he openly called for the murder of Jews and other infidels as being particular enemies of the faith. A constant presence at the Mosque for 2 years during the late 1990s he was close to Abu Hamza, one of the main fundamentalist preachers outside on the streets but also to Abu Qatada, both men being self-styled imams with a considerable following among young Muslims.

Many British people will undoubtedly recall the genuine shock of hearing for the first time the extremist views of those Muslim fundamentalist sermons made by both Islamist preachers with their violent anti-Western, anti-Christian and particularly anti-Semitic content all of which were made freely and openly on the streets of London. It is of the utmost importance to grasp this singular fact. That these highly charged inflammatory diatribes, openly racist and threatening in character, were made in the hearing of a heavy police presence. In fact during the early years of this preaching of openly hate propaganda no attempt was made by the police to intervene or prevent it. In fact it seemed to many that the police presence was there solely to protect these preachers and their followers. It was like the whole Finsbury Park area had become a hotbed of Islamic extremism with its followers just about everywhere, one of the most active and dedicated of whom, Djamel Beghal, would later become friend and mentor to Cherif Kouachi in a French prison.

When looked back on from today the timing of all this was auspicious. In 1997 a New Labour Government was elected to power and Jack Straw chosen to be Home Secretary, a position he held until 2001. Throughout his period in office, Muslim extreme fundamentalist preaching continued unchecked around the Finsbury Park Mosque with police protection always at hand. Both the despicably vile racist content of these sermons and the protection given to these Islamic hate preachers by politicians and the police was supported by a host of woolly headed liberal lawyers and mealy mouthed leftists under a muddle headed notion of freedom of speech. In short the Islamists were allowed to say what they liked, grossly offensive as it was, without hindrance. Furthermore, during this time many stalls appeared on the streets of London run by these extremists openly selling anti-Semitic and often Nazi material.

It was a time of great consternation and anxiety for British Jews, perplexed at the time by the failure of Tony Blair’s New Labour Government to prohibit the activities of these Islamic extremist preachers and their anti-Semitic diatribes, any complaint usually met with the glib retort that there was no law against it! In other words these hate preachers were given carte blanche under New Labour Government to say whatever they wanted. The consequence of this was to radicalize of tens of thousands of British Muslim youths and inspire others already converted to the extremist ideology of death to go on to greater things, like radicalizing others and preparing the way for mass murder in Paris.

In short there is an undoubted linear connection between the early years of Tony Blair’s New Labour Government with its policy of facilitating mass Muslim immigration into the UK while at the same time turning a blind eye to the radicalizing of Muslim youths by fundamentalist Islamic preachers and now the barbarous events in Paris of recent days. Before the appearance of Blair’s New Labour Government in 1997 there were already millions of Muslims living in France as a relic of its conflict with Algeria. These however had never in main been radicalized with an extremist fundamentalist Islam. From the time of their arrival in the UK from the Middle East and the appearance at the Finsbury Park Mosque of Islamic fundamentalist preachers this was to change. Their overt anti-Semitism and authoritarian views were soon to radically affect many French Muslims, create devastating tensions with long established Jewish communities, particularly in Paris, resulting in many acts of violence towards Jews, and a general hostility towards the general universal principles of freedom on which modern France is based.

New Labour Government from 1997 and its permissive attitude to Islamic extremism at Finsbury Park has a great deal to answer for, same as it has for its disastrous policy of removing financial control over banking practices from 2006. As for the later career of Jack Straw as Foreign Secretary from 2001 it’s worth noting that to many he became known as the Ayatollah Straw in view of his visits to the fundamentalist Islamic Republic of Iran where he was always given a friendly welcome.

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