The London Daily News

05 April, 2009 10:52 (GMT +01:00)

British prison system a "comfortable home" for Islamic terrorists

Editorial

The Labour Government has allowed extremists like Abu Qatada to radicalise young Muslims in the British prison system, all at the taxpayer’s expense and putting at risk the security of the country.

The news that that Qatada said in a letter that:

"We have the defeated the British Government and in our imprisonment there was an uncovering of their filthiness and their criminality and their false claims of humanism".

Abu Qatada went onto say:

"A new generation of the Muslim youth has been raised and especially amongst our brothers who originate from the Indian subcontinent who were no longer mesmerised by the English authority nor English values rather they hate is and they know its enmity towards them so they have become enemies as well".

The approach of the British Government has been to treat Islamic extremists like Qatada as a criminal like a thief or rapist. These extremists have been radicalising hundreds of young Muslims in the UK and elsewhere and will be even more potent inside the closed communities of the prison system.

Deportation or containment and no contact with the outside world is what we should be doing to these individuals.

The speculation that the shooting by a Vietnamese worker in New York was the work of the Taleban has still not be ruled out by intelligence experts. Only yesterday Baitulah Mehsud the head of the Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility for the deadly shooting.

"I accept responsibility. They were my men. I gave them orders in reaction to US drone attacks," Baituallah Mehsud reportedly told Reuters.

The tactic by Al Qaeda and the Taleban to use mentally unstable or vulnerable individuals was confirmed when Nicky Reilly a 22 year old from Plymouth was found to be "engaged in research on making an improvised explosive device, acquired components for making an improvised explosive device" and made more than one device using sodium hydroxide in the form of caustic soda, paraffin and aluminium foil, along with nails, which he had put in glass soft drink bottles."

The Daily Telegraph reported Reily "took the assembled explosive devices to the Giraffe restaurant in Exeter, Devon, and set about detonating one or more of the devices intending to cause an explosion in the public dining area of the restaurant with the intention of causing your violent death with others."

Moreover the threat by Islamic terrorist is ever present and is more potent than ever with reports that Baitullah Mehsud the head of the Pakistan Taliban has a well trained network able to stage suicide bombings attacks, and a reinvigorated "jihadist network".

This means that small elements of the British Muslim community will have been exposed to the propaganda of this movement and may pose a threat to the UK. The responsibility is on the Muslim groups in the UK to work with the British authorities and single out groups or individuals who are radicalizing people to perform acts of terrorism in the UK.

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