Ever since I told the US website The Daily Beast that Britain was a cesspit and a breeding ground for fundamentalist Muslims, people have been asking me what I meant: “Why do you, a Nobel laureate, say such things? Where’s the evidence?”
....Where are these students developing these attitudes? Mostly off-campus in local mosques. There are so-called schools of Islamic teaching attached to mosques in certain British cities. These ghetto schools, which are often situated in innocuous places, are a real problem in Britain. You have them in many of your northern cities; you have them in London. They are not mainstream Islamic schools. [Times Online] Read more
Student Islamic Societies “provide the mood music to which suicide bombers dance” “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army” Edward Everett a former President of Harvard and US secretary of State said.
However, since former UCL Islamic society president Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s failed attempt to blow up a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day, it is the level of liberty allowed to radical ideologues by Universities in Britain, institutions which are seen as the pinnacle of the British Education system, which has come to be questioned. [Harry’s Place] Read more
