Cameron – United Kingdom should shut a few Islamic schools

The move marks a significant step toward holding a parliamentary vote.

The Prime Minister said the case for RAF missions crossing from
Iraq to Syria had “only grown stronger” after the terror attack which left 129 dead in Paris on Friday.

French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said European Union partners could help “either by taking part in France’s operations in Syria or Iraq, or by easing the load or providing support for France in other operations”.

“I am determined to prioritize the resources we need to combat the terrorist threat because protecting the British people is my number one duty as prime minister”, Cameron will say, according to the newspaper. “It’s in Syria where the headquarters of ISIL is and it’s from Syria that attacks on this country have been planned”, he said, adding that “Raqqa is the head of the snake”.

Britain’s leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn is extremely skeptical about getting involved militarily in Syria and responded to Cameron by asserting that Britain must secure United Nations approval before extending the airstrikes.

The Prime Minister pointed to the cross-border planning behind the Paris attacks as evidence of the growing threat in Syria, and the need to join the French-US coalition. “You have to engage and build the alliances that can make a difference”. “We should be clear that those attacks in Paris, that could have happened in Belgium, it could have happened in Denmark, it could have happened in Sweden; it could happen here”, he said.

He stressed “this murderous violence requires a strong security response”, and “my firm conviction is that we need to act against ISIL in Syria”.

For full story and reaction, see Thursday’s Courier.

In reality this basically means Britain keeps doing what it’s doing now, which the PM listed as “training local forces, striking targets in Iraq, providing vital intelligence support”.

“We can not dodge forever the question of how to degrade Isil [Isis] both in Iraq and in Syria”.

Also on Tuesday, Cameron took aim at veteran peace campaigner Corbyn, suggesting that he would rather put Britain at risk rather than bomb militants in Syria.

The announcement came while Cameron was attending the Group of 20 leaders summit in Antalya, Turkey, a meeting traditionally focused on economics which has been overshadowed by the terrorist attacks.

Fighting terrorism may force Cameron to work more closely with Vladimir Putin.

He said that next week’s reshaping of the military budget, to be unveiled in a Strategic Defence and Security Review, would include extra money for 1,900 additional security and intelligence staff and more money to increase a network of counter-terrorism experts in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

This included shutting educational institutions encouraging intolerance, and supporting other Muslims to speak up against radicalisation.