Too late the risk

One of the issues that is never addressed in all the discussion about the possibility of young men returning to these shores with evil intent is the extra dimension that

strong religious beliefs bring.

The debate about Muslim men returning from fighting in Syria and posing a danger to society here is countered by the comparison of young men in the 1930s going to fight in Spain for the anti Fascist cause being no threat on their return. Ideology was involved, many of the people who joined the anti Franco forces were committed socialists but in no way were they immersed in a deep religious belief system which not only creates an indissolvable brotherhood but also knows no national boundaries for the extremists. The belief in Jihad as a method of paying homage to Allah, even giving ones life as a suicide bomber is a very far cry from the social ideology of the pre-war days. 

There is no reasoning with blind faith but it becomes a nightmare when the faithful take up arms against ones own society.

 

How we got here is as usual a set of ill-thought-through political decisions without understanding the consequences. Many parts of the world, particularly the Middle East is a mess because of the Imperial Masters re-defining boarders and mixing tribal cultures without understanding the checks and balances that had developed over generations within a geographical area. 

Since the end of the War a social experiment has been conducted in this country in which multiculturalism has been propounded to fit the need of an economic package which imported thousands of culturally different people to work, propping up dying industries by working for much lower wages. There was never any debate with the people here who of course would be most effected, only a continuing hope that the pliability of the normal working class would assimilate all comers. Now with the Trojan Horse inside many of our deprived cities we recognise, too late the risk!!