British PM: Time to Defeat Radical Islam

Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday outlined a five-year plan to counter Islamic extremist views, while promising to promote British values and address the failures of integration in the country’s growing Muslim community.

David Cameron called Islamic extremism “poison”.

Security services estimate some 700 British people have travelled out to fight with the IS terrorists in Syria and Iraq.

The Prime Minister says he wants Britain to “step up and do more” if he could secure the approval of Parliament as he prepared to issue a stark warning to home-grown would-be jihadists that IS wanted them as “cannon fodder”. We’ve got to confiscate passports.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald further condemned the speech as “creepy” and “authoritarian”.

Said segregation in “divided” communities must be tackled in some parts of Britain with more integrated schools, including free schools, and allocation of social housing.

“We worry, however, that these latest suggestions will set new litmus tests which may brand us all as extremists, even though we uphold and celebrate the rule of law, democracy and rights for all”, Shafi said.

His speech further rejected the idea that British foreign policy is responsible for the rise of Islamist extremism in the Middle East.

“It is crucial that in these important and sensitive matters the confidence and trust of this Parliament is maintained as well as that of the British people“. But let’s not delude ourselves.

Cameron said in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that he was in talks over ways the United Kingdom can increase its role in the region. Critics fault the government for taking so long to come up with a comprehensive counter-extremism strategy.

Instead of confronting radical Islam as taught by clerics in some British mosques, Cameron’s speech is expected to focus on the threat of conspiracy theorists: people who believe that 9/11 was masterminded by Israel, that Britain allowed 7/7 to happen to induce an anti-Muslim backlash, and that Jews somehow exercise malevolent power.

“There is a danger in some of our communities that you can go your whole life and have little to do with people of other faiths”.

Some of them apparently find the group glamorous, and he hopes to tackle this problem by making young people aware of the brutality of the organisation. Other European countries such as Denmark are using disillusioned ex-jihadis to combat the group’s message, and reintegrating them into society rather than prosecuting them.

“If you are a boy, they will brainwash you, strap bombs to your body and blow you up”, Cameron will warn. “If you are a girl, they will enslave and abuse you”.

“It’s groups like ISIL, al Qaeda and Boko Haram that are the ones murdering Muslims”.

Extremism can seem exciting, especially to young people.

“This isn’t a pioneering movement – it is vicious, brutal, and fundamentally abhorrent”.