The U.K.’s understanding of Islamist extremism has “significant gaps” as research disproportionately focuses on the far-Right, an official counter-extremism watchdog report has warned. The Telegraph has the story.
The study, for the Commission for Countering Extremism, revealed that Islamist extremists are using legal threats to help deter researchers from writing about them.
It said research projects funded by millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money appeared to be “skewed towards studies of extremism in general, as well as towards studies of the far-Right”, warning that the Islamist movement in the U.K. had been “systematically under-researched”.
Among the reasons it gave for an apparent skewing of research towards Right-wing extremism was a “litigative onslaught” researchers suggested they faced if they wrote about specific individuals and groups, “particularly in the Islamist sphere”.
The document, published on the gov.uk website, stated: “As a result of systemic problems both in studying extremism and in communicating the findings of such study, there are likely to be substantial gaps in the knowledge base around extremism in the U.K.
“The skew towards studies of Right-wing extremism, and away from studies of Islamism (especially in a contemporary U.K. context), could… perhaps be seen as problematic, given that Islamist extremism proportionally represents a far greater terror threat in the U.K.”
The report will add to concern about the extent to which the U.K. is equipped to deal with rising levels of extremism stemming from the Israel-Hamas conflict.
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If you’re worried about the future in regard to this issue then in terms of consequences you only have to look at the disparity in birth rates. You could say that the future looks Islamic. But I doubt that because on a deeper level Islam is a moon-based spirituality which longs for the cool and the tide and the oceans. We in northern climes yearn for the return of the sun. In the end Christianity belongs in the British Isles even more so than in the holy land. The very fabric of our thought and language and spirituality. The spirit is at its lowest ebb at the moment but the energy is still here to start something up again when it is required. These are the dark days before a new moon and sun. Since the last war we have been lulled to sleep. Doesn’t matter we just face the future without flinching.
Jesus would have stood and died for Palestine:
https://youtu.be/sW2T5ErJys0?si=phcVWMzy9IIbxPjG
Nurse! He’s out again.
Lame
Jesus would of condemned Hamas, as should anyone with a shred of humanity.
Indeed. But what Israel does now is pure evil too.
Met him did you? Maybe need sectioning mate.
If by “far right” they mean rational, sceptical, realistic and honest individuals, then they are more than welcome to smear me as such as I know that they are the opposite to me; irrational, gullible, naive and ignorant.
You so-called “far right” people of DS have been my rock solid foundation for my mental stability these past few years.
I thank all of the authors, editors and most of all, the community in the comments. Rarely have I actually wanted to interact with people below an article, but I look to the comments here without fail!
Merry Christmas to you all and have a corker of a New Year!
Keep it up. X
PS, Merry Christmas to all you governmentally paid bastards pouring over this, and other “far right” media.
We know you can’t help being terrible, scummy, corrupted and vile humans. Jesus would ask us to forgive you.
That said, he can’t stop me wishing you food poisoning from the turkey recipe you saw on tiktok.
What’s revealing is how very few of them are allowed to comment here: the £50 a year 77 Brigade – named after their average IQ – would have to pay isn’t justified by the quality of their comments.
Hear, hear. Well said
Have a good one Jeepybee. 2024 …. more opportunity to get right up the noses of the intolerant, bigoted, dictatorial lefties.
The simple answer would be to persuade TPTB is that Muslims are right wing too, then they can monitor all of us (a job lot if you like) this should save money.
There is a grim reality whereby democracy is like going to the gym – you either use it or lose it. We will arrive at something better in the new year.
Well Christmas is under attack, and if it’s not by the Woketards ( baby Jesus in Italy has two mothers and daddy Joseph has been ditched, apparently ), then it’s from the Hamasshole Hate fanatics, with terrorist plots being thwarted left, right and centre. Here’s just a few of the latest in Europe;
”The new Europe is vibrantly diverse, and that means it must be infinitely superior to the old Europe. Every paradise has its downside, however, and as Europe assumes its new status in the world as the globalists’ premier showcase of multiculturalism, there are some definite sour notes. One came on Saturday in Germany, as a jihad plot was foiled targeting the renowned Cologne Cathedral, on which construction began in the year 1248.
The German-language publication Bild reported Saturday that there were “several arrests” as “Islamists planned an attack on Cologne Cathedral.” A police spokesman in Cologne explained: “Due to a warning of a threat to Cologne Cathedral, the Cologne police will take special protective measures beginning this evening.”
Michael Esser, Cologne’s police, suggested that the plot was set not for Christmas, but for New Year’s Eve. However, he said: “Even if the reference refers to New Year’s Eve, we will take everything into account this evening to ensure the safety of cathedral visitors on Christmas Eve. In coordination with the security officer of the cathedral chapter, the cathedral will be searched with sniffer dogs after the evening mass and then locked. Tomorrow all visitors will be screened before entering the church.”
Bild added that “the police and the Cologne Cathedral Chapter recommend avoiding bags and arriving early to the masses.” It’s the price of multiculturalism, folks. Come for the schwarma, stay for the jihad.
Cologne wasn’t even the only target. The Bild report also noted that “security authorities in Austria, Germany and Spain have received indications that an Islamist terrorist cell may want to carry out several attacks in Europe on New Year’s Eve or Christmas.” Besides Cologne, the targets could include Christmas observances in Vienna and Madrid. There were arrests Saturday in Vienna as well as in Germany, but the investigation was ongoing, and authorities were closemouthed.”
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2023/12/23/christmas-in-the-new-europe-jihad-massacre-foiled-at-germanys-cologne-cathedral-n4924977
What is needed in the UK is more police officers like this chap. 100% impartial, with no sign of this ”two-tier policing” malarky with the ever-present Jew-hating ‘tea-towel terrorist’ lunatic yobs ( 2mins );
https://twitter.com/JackieMeek6/status/1737097688334668152
He converted to islam! He has simply sided with the devil.
There will be war, I am afraid. There are people in the west who are becoming very angry at the invasion of our ancient land and culture by Arabs and arabic cultureand laws that are medieval in their mindset. It will be bad but lancing a boil is always painful.
Have you got yourself a copy of “While Europe Slept” by Bruce Bawer yet? When you are done with that then get yourself “Beyond Terror” by Anne Marie Waters. ——-Merry Christmas mate while we can still say it without it being a hate crime.
It’s hard to believe having lived through the 9/11, Madrid bombings, London bombings, ISIS era.
And yet, given the toxic cocktail of malice, stupidity and self interest which is the state and its bureaucrats, it’s also very believable.
Aside from the Islamists, where is the far right. There may be half a dozen fantasists so sit in their front room planning a coup, there is no far right.
There is not even a middle right.
what does the MSM think is the right or far right? For me the right are Argentine Generals and Greek Colonels. They were economically inefficient, nationalist and authoritarian. Where are such people in the UK.
the fight here is between libertarians on the one side and the political class on the other. They are all left or centre left.
100%
Left and right may have once been a useful shorthand for political positions, but now it clarifies nothing and is probably used to obfuscate more than anything else.
To me the most elucidating dichotomy is collectivism vs individualism. And it is on that basis that I assess political positions and personalities.
To the extent that someone advocates the imposition of collective action I consider them dangerous. Those who would let others chose their own way I consider allies.
Far Right, Climate Crisis, Hate Crime, Misgendering, etc etc. They are all to be found in the Liberal Progressive Toolbox. ——–They pull them out like we pull out a screw driver, and they have a tool for every job.
Its all just an attempt to make the extremism of the ‘far-left’ seem like a reasonable and moderate position, and more, the ‘correct’ position. To me, “Far Right” = British people who are not invested in the destruction of their own country and society, especially for some esoteric argument so flimsily constructed that you can drive a bus through it’s logic.
We used to have Arabic scholars in the west, who understood the language and culture and they could provide perspective and nuance. We have been frightened off that now so we gain our security advice from the people who may be our enemy. A bit like Churchill taking advice from nazis on how to deal with Hitler’s Germany.
Islam uses scared tactics to keep We dhimmis cowed and silent. We live in very dangerous times for our people and country.
Read the Quran. And remember that is their book of law. Unlike the OT, whose acts of savagery have been abandoned long ago by Christians, the Quran is Islam’s book of God. Allowing the rape and enslavement of female prisoners, the the eradication of Jews (where have I heard that before?)
There is no need to talk of Islamic “extremism”. Islam is by definition extreme. As we witness every day.
https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/the-problem-with-islam/
The Talmud/Torah can be pretty ugly reading in parts too.
(1) They run scared of Muslims (2) Muslims are seen as leftists buddies (3) Much easier to go after white people who know climate change is a crock of s..t, vaccines kill people and mass immigration is a leftist coup. ——-With the added benefit that they won’t behead you.