The recent and long-overdue attention the terror group ISIS has received from the Western world has raised a number of questions and concerns over European policies toward radical Islam. Senior Western intelligence officials confirmed on August 24 that 23-year-old London rapper Abdel Majed Abdel Bary was believed to be the executioner who beheaded James Foley in a recently released video.
To discuss the beheading, Sean Hannity recently interviewed London imam Anjem Choudary, an Islamic radical who was once upon a time portrayed as a moderate by Britain’s progressive political elite. Nile Gardiner, a leading authority on transatlantic relations and director of The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, says Britain’s overtly tolerant society has been exploded by Islamists.
The Islamists have infiltrated schools and supposedly moderate mosques in Britain, where they have indoctrinated young British Muslims who then go on to practice terrorism jihad in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. More and more experts in the intelligence community say these fighters are an imminent threat to the U.S. homeland, though it was just a few short months ago when President Obama characterized the now-terror army as a “JV” team compared to Al Qaeda.
ISIS, or IS as Choudary insisted, as it was already a caliphate, now controls far more territory than Al Qaeda ever has, and possesses far more weaponry and money seized from Iraq before Obama made the day-late and a dollar-short decision to begin U.S. airstrikes. The University of Mosul, which was raided and picked dry when Iraq’s second-largest city was captured by ISIS, housed nuclear fissile material sufficiently processes to utilize in a dirt bomb suit case.
Despite the fact they behead innocent people on video and post it to YouTube, apparently that doesn’t lose the support of a significant amount of French respondents. In a recent poll conducted by Vox for Russian state television found a good degree of sympathy for ISIS. France is only 5-10 percent Muslim, yet 16 percent say they have a favorable opinion of the leading terrorism group.
The rise of anti-Semitism in France is undeniable. But support for terror groups both in policy and public opinion should give the U.S. reason enough to question their alliance, if it was ever an ally of the U.S. to begin with. However, that may be difficult when regions in the U.S., itself, is practicing the same ill-conceived, so-called progressive policies of inclusion that allow radical Islam to operate under the banner of moderate Islam, as is the case with organizations such as CAIR, or the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
It is well-documented that CAIR has supported terror groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, yet somehow, national news organizations from FOX News to MSNBC have allowed their representatives to parade the charade on national television.
Considering U.S. officials and citizens allow this to continue, it is unsurprising to learn that federal investigators believe that approximately 100 Americans have traveled to Syria to join Islamist groups. A second American was reportedly killed fighting with ISIS in Syria, who has been identified as Abdirahmaan Muhumed, of Minneapolis. Muhumed was killed in the same battle as Douglas McAuthur McCain, the first American citizen confirmed killed. Minnesota has long-practiced a microcosm policy similar to Britain and France, which has allowed radical Islam to poison vulnerable U.S. citizens, and now threatens the security of the entire nation.
