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The Heavy Price of Appeasement
A new illuminating book about the rise of Jihad in Britain makes us wonder if the West is willing to fight Muslim extremism in its midst.
(The British Suicide: The UK’s self-inflicted failure to defeat jihad for two decades, by Saul Zadka (Amazon)
By Rachel Ehrenfeld*
The weekly anti-Israeli demonstrations that took place in London since the 7/10 massacre are nothing but a show of support for Hamas. The level of hatred shown against the Jewish State did not surprise Saul Zadka who for the last five years was busy documenting and writing this book about the spread of Jihad in the United Kingdom.
The love affair between British Muslims and Gaza began in earnest more than two decades ago when the first ever British suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a pub in Tel-Aviv, next door to the American embassy, with suicide belts given to them by Hamas during a “humanitarian” visit to the terrorist enclave.
Saul Zadka, a London-based writer and broadcaster, devotes a long chapter to that affair that shocked Israel and the British public in April 2003. He vividly details how the bombers met their end on the shores of the Mediterranean. Since then, Britain has experienced many home-grown suicide bombers that were perpetuated mostly by members of the Pakistani Muslim community: The London public transport, the London Bridge, the Parliament, and the Manchester Arena, to name but a few.
In his book, Zadka reveals uncomfortable facts not hitherto in the public domain. One of them tells us that Ossama Bin Laden came very close to making London the al-Qaida’s headquarters before moving from Sudan to Afghanistan. His relocation to the English Capital would have been facilitated by a network of committed Jihadists who did not even try to hide their activities from the deluded British authorities, who regarded supporting Jihad as a legitimate display of “freedom of expression.” The book also reveals that one of the architects of 9/11 was a radical Islamic Tunisian preacher who was given asylum in London. He, like hundreds of others, were fleeing secular dictatorships in the Middle East, and Britain showered them with all the benefits of its welfare system. In one chapter, over 50 pages, the author lists the names of 70 radical Muslim hate preachers, many of whom are wanted by their home countries. And guess what, they and their ilk have been elated by and praised Hama’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
The title of the book points to the fact that the author criticizes successive British governments for not lifting a finger to stop the Jihadi tide in their country. Similarly, they turned a blind eye to scores of Muslim Asian gangs who sexually abused countless underage white girls all over the country over three decades. In his concluding chapter, he reveals that only 4% of Muslims in the UK believe that al-Qaida was behind 9/11; 40% among them support Sharia law, while only 7% believe that the Holocaust happened, 52% want to ban homosexuality, and only 3% support free speech over Islam. These findings should not surprise anyone who read and listened to Douglas Murray or Ayaan Hirsi Ali. However, this book cements their arguments by documenting the painful facts. Indeed, the UK is just an example of similar trends in other European countries, Canada, and even the United States.
Today, more people go to mosques than churches in the UK. How long will it take for it to become a Muslim-majority entity? Zadka answers that question in a fast-flowing and frightening book that should be compulsory for anyone worried about the future of the US and other Western democracies.
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Rachel Ehrenfeld, PhD, is director of the American Center for Democracy and author of “The Soros Agenda” and “Funding Evil, How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It.”
