Islamic extremists in Britain

What can British Muslims do to prevent their children from falling under the influence of Islamic extremists? Apparently nothing:

The Muslim Council of Britain this week admitted it was powerless to prevent young people from falling under the influence of Islamic extremists.

The claim came after 25-year-old Saajid Badat pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up a passenger jet bound for America.

The student, from Gloucester, who is believed to have became involved with extremists when he attended a mosque in south London, had planned a simultaneous explosion with “shoe bomber” Richard Reid.

A spokesman for the MCB said: “There are thousands of mosques across the country we can’t watch all of them. Just as there are synagogues under control of fanatical Zionists.

This lack of control has come to light when the suicide bomber-in-training Saajid Badat pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up a passenger jet bound for the United States:

But the MCB distanced itself from Badat’s actions: “This is not something we are responsible for, just as the Jewish community is not responsible for Jewish paedophiles and Jewish murderers. What Saajid Badat did is his responsibility. The Muslim community is not responsible.”

A spokesman for the Community Security Trust said: “I don’t think you can blame the mosques, the one he attended was a moderate one. This was a one-to-one recruitment.”

But he agreed that the decentralised nature of the Muslim community made it difficult for groups like the MCB to keep tabs on extremists.

He said: “They famously sent out messages to call on local communities across Britain to contact the authorities about any suspicious behaviour. It is out of their control. There is a war going on in the Muslim community between the extremists and the moderates”.

Andrew Dismore, Labour MP for Hendon and a campaigner for tougher terrorism laws, said: “The MCB doesn’t have the same structural organisation as the Church of England or the United Synagogue. They do not have control over individual mosques.”

And yet many European liberals still believe that Islamic immigration is a good thing.