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Experts slam London University for being 'complicit' in radicalisation of Muslim students | Terrorism experts have accused the London university of being 'complicit' in the radicalisation of Muslim students, such as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian-bomber who tried to blow up the Detroit-bound
flight in Christmas Day. The Telegraph quoted Anthony Glees, professor of security
and intelligence studies at the University of Buckingham, as saying that University
College London, where Abdulmutallab was recently president of the Islamic Society,
has "failed grotesquely" to prevent radical preachers from giving lectures on
campus. "I believe Abdulmutallab's radicalisation from being a devoted Muslim
to a suicide bomber took place in the UK and I believe al-Qaeda recruited him
in London. Universities and colleges like UCL have got to realise that you don't
get suicide bombers unless they have first been radicalised," Glees said. Douglas
Murray, of the Centre for Social Cohesion, said: "UCL has not just failed to prevent
students being radicalised, they have been complicit. If any other society at
UCL invited someone to speak who encouraged killing homosexuals, that society
would be banned immediately, but academics are afraid of taking action when it
involves Islamic societies in case they are accused of Islamophobia." In 2007,
when Abdulmutallab was studying at UCL, the Islamic Society held a five-day series
of lectures and seminars about the War on Terror, which have been criticised as
anti-Western propaganda. UCL has confirmed that Abdulmutallab was president of
its Islamic Society from 2006-07, but has insisted he "never gave his tutors any
cause for concern". Among the other terrorists who have graduated from British
universities are former London School of Economics student Omar Sheikh, who beheaded
the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and former Kings College
London students Asif Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif, who carried out a suicide bomb
attack on a bar in Tel Aviv in 2003. Abdullah Ahmed Ali, the leader of the 2006
liquid bomb plot to blow up transatlantic airliners, was a graduate of City University
in London. |
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