Cultural Reaction of English Civilians Against Terrorist Situations in Their Country Research Paper

Even a brief analysis of terrorist acts that had taken place on British soil during the course of last decade, invariably point out to the fact that these acts cannot be discussed outside of conceptual framework of policy of multiculturalism, which has been actively pursued by New Labor government. For example, the perpetrators of London subway’s bombing on July 7, 2005, consisted of recently arrived Pakistani and Jamaican immigrants, who nevertheless managed to obtain British citizenship with ease, due to government’s persistent assumption that “ethically unique” immigrants in Britain do contribute to this country’s well-being, despite objective reality suggesting something entirely opposite.

In its turn, this explains why in recent years, the anti-terrorist sentiment among Britons has been attaining clearly defined anti-immigrant undertones. In her article “Why Might Young British Muslims Support the Taliban?”, Alison Shaw states: “The fear that we might be harboring Islamic terrorists in our midst is of course not entirely unfounded. The extent of British Muslim involvement in Osama bin Laden’s Al- Qaeda network remains unclear, but since 11 September evidence has been accumulating that implicates at least some British Muslims in the activities of extreme Islamist groups” (2002, 6). The recent sociological surveys, conducted to define how citizens’ attitudes towards terrorism correlate to their ethic affiliation, leave no doubt as to the fact that. at least a half of British Muslims fully support what they refer to as “struggle against Western imperialism”. Given the fact that Muslim population in Britain now accounts for two million, it means that close to one million of Britons hate the country of their citizenship with utter passion, while never skipping a chance to cause Britain harm, every time opportunity presents itself. Moreover, the number of Muslims in this country continues to increase in exponential progression to the flow of time.

In his article “Officials Think UK’s Muslim Population has Risen to 2m”, Alan Travis provides us with the insight onto the fact that it is the matter of comparatively short time, before the process of Britain being turned into Northern Pakistan will be completed: “The 400,000 increase in the size of the Muslim community in less than seven years demonstrates its position as the fastest growing faith community in Britain… Outside London, Pakistani Muslims make up more than 43% of the community, with Bangladeshis accounting for 17%, and those from India at 9%” (Guardian 2008). And, despite governmental officials’ attempts to discourage native-born citizens from associating the increased dangers of terrorism in Britain with its policy of allowing hordes of “ethnically unique” Muslims to immigrate to UK, more and more people in this country grow increasingly dissatisfied with government’s inability to adjust Britain’s socio-political policies to correspond to the notion of sanity. Moreover, as time goes by, such their dissatisfaction attains the subtleties of publically expressed protest.

For example, it now being estimated that, during the course of so-called London’s “race riots” of 2001 and 2003, close to 500.000 Londoners and the residents of London’s suburbia had openly expressed their growing concerns about the process of Britain’s Islamization. And yet, British mainstream Medias still refer to these events as “racist provocation”, “crime against spirit of tolerance” and “neo-nazi conspiracy”, even though that people who participated in mass rallies against the process of their country being gradually turned into a Third world slum, were ordinary citizens, who simply got fed up with newly arrived Muslim immigrants’ tendency to “celebrate diversity” by gang-raping White women, bringing explosives to London’s subway and indulging in other forms of socially inappropriate behavior.

In their study “Radicalization of Diasporas and Terrorism”, Bruce Hoffman, William Rosenau, Andrew Curiel and Doron Zimmerman provide us with statistical insight onto the process of Britain’s rapid Islamization: “The number of mosques registered in the United Kingdom has risen significantly. In 1963, thirteen mosques were registered. From 1966, they began to register at any annual rate of nearly seven. Official lists from 1999 show more than five hundred mosques; other sources cite upwards of nine hundred. Virtually all mosques are registered as charities” (2007, 26). Given the fact that Muslim terrorists and Muslim mullahs profess the same religious values, one does not have to be overly smart, in order to realize the actual essence of Muslim mosques’ “charitable” activities.

Therefore, there cannot be even a slightest doubt as to the fact that the cultural reaction of British civilians towards terrorist situations in UK directly relates to these people’s realization that British Muslims’ inability to integrate into British society creates objective preconditions for them to be endowed with a terrorist mentality. Even though governmental officials do not articulate such idea openly, there is plenty of indirect evidence as to the fact that many politicians in U.S. and Britain’s high offices had not been completely deprived of their sense of rationale. The following excerpt from Derek McGhee’s book “End of Multiculturalism?: Terrorism, Integration and Human Rights”, substantiates the validity of earlier suggestion: “The events of 9/11 prompted a swift response in terms of anti-terrorism measures in both the USA and Britain. It was the emergency anti-terrorism legislation introduced in Britain, and its explicit focus on Muslim terror suspects that led the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee to suggest that Muslim communities on both sides of the Atlantic were being treated like ‘suspect communities’ by Governments, the media and the general public alike” (2008, 52). Despite being continuously subjected to propaganda of political correctness, ordinary Britons are growing weary with the fact that Islamic terrorism in Britain had assumed clearly defined communal subtleties, which in its turn, makes it quite impossible for country’s law enforcement agencies to effectively address the issue.

For example, the editorial “Britain Prepares to Deport 9 Terrorism Suspects to Pakistan”, available on the web site of National Terror Alert, implies that at least nine out of Britain’s millions of potential terrorists where just about to be shipped to the country of their origin: “Two weeks after hundreds of police officers staged raids in northern England and arrested 12 men in what Prime Minister Gordon Brown described as “a very big terrorist plot,” the police released nine of them on Tuesday and handed them over to Britain’s border control agency for deportation to Pakistan” (National Terror Alert 2009). Yet, these people have never been deported – the whole country’s Muslim community had come to their defense, with Britain’s “progressive” Medias beginning to scream bloody murder over the allegations of “racism” within British police. According to neo-Liberal sophisticates, who had taken over Britain’s governmental offices, potential terrorists should not be shot as mad dogs but reasoned with.

In her article “Terrorism or Intercultural Dialogue”, Bhikhu Parekh enlightens Britons on how they should deal with terrorists: “We should not put terrorists outside of the pale of rational discourse but engage in a dialogue with them, understand their grievances, see if they are genuine, ask ourselves whether we bear any responsibility for these, mend our ways when we think we do and, when we don’t, persuade them why they need to put their own house in order”. (2002, 271). However, the objective realities indicate that ordinary British citizens are not being thrilled with the idea that they should indulge in dialogue with those who hate Britain with utter passion, as “imperialist nation”, while continuing to enjoy the benefits of British citizenship.

In its turn, this explains why the popularity of British National Party, which calls for immediate deportation of potential Islamic terrorists, continues to increase rapidly among White Britons. In his article “Shock BNP Council Win Brings Fear of Rise in Extremism”, Benedict Brogan discusses the details of this process: “A win for the British National Party yesterday sent a tremor through Labor amid growing fears the recession is driving angry voters into the arms of extremist parties. The far-Right party seized a Labor seat in a district council by-election in Sevenoaks, Kent, leading some to warn it could make significant advances in the local and European elections to be held in June” (Mail Online 2009). And, as we are all aware of, during the course of this year’s elections to European Parliament, BNP had won 2 seats – something European political observers never suspected would happen.

Apparently, more and more Britons gradually realize that the concept of terrorism is being synonymous to the concept of multiculturalism – after all, it is only suicidal White Britons who may consider a possibility of taking leisurely stroll through London’s ethnic ghettos, especially after it gets dark. Thus, we can say that the cultural reaction of British civilians towards the dangers of terrorism can be compared to that of Australian vacationers’ towards the dangers of crocodile attack – sober minded Australians would never jump in the lake filled with crocodiles, but this is not due to these people being “hateful” or “biased” towards the crocodiles, but because they are being endowed with a common sense. In the same way, no sober minded British citizens of European descent would ever consider socializing with turban-wearing Muslims – not because these citizens are being “racists”, but because their common sense would prevent them from indulging in such practice as utterly dangerous. The same can be said about the situation with multiculturalism in other European countries – as time goes by, these countries’ native-born citizens grow increasingly discontent with nonsensical suggestions that they should never stop appeasing Muslim would-be-terrorists, instead of rounding them up and sending them back to Pakistan, where nothing should prevent them from being able to “celebrate diversity” in time free from making babies. The outcome of Switzerland’s most recent referendum, during the course of which Swiss citizens had put an end to institutionalized insanity of multiculturalism in their country, fully substantiates the validity of such our suggestion.

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