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Americans blame Britain for rise of Islamic extremism | The United States has accused Britain of being a 'menace to the outside world' because of its perceived
failure to tackle Islamic extremism. Senior policymakers in the United States
said the attempted suicide bomb attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is thought
to have become radicalised in London, was further evidence that one of the biggest
threats to US security came from Britain, where the capital has been dubbed "Londonistan"
by critics. There was also criticism of the "ghettoisation" of British Muslims,
compared with the "assimilation" of Muslims in America. Muslim immigrants to the
US were much better integrated in society and considered themselves Americans
"within a generation" because the US embraced the "melting pot" concept, said
Marc Thiessen, former chief speechwriter for President George W Bush and a former
Pentagon aide. "That doesn't exist in Europe in the same way and particularly
in Britain, which is a more socially stratified society than the US," he said.
"They live in Muslim ghettoes and feel alienated from the larger society and not
accepted," he added. Daniel Pipes, a scholar on radical Islam and former adviser
to Rudolph Giuliani during his presidential campaign, said: "The UK is a menace
to the outside world. It's been a problem for years now. This is just one more
example." "We are in grave danger as a result of the fact that we are lowering
our defences by doing away with vital tools in the war on terror that have proven
successful - all in response to the hue and cry from the European Left and to
appease European opinion," said Thiessen. |
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