ENGLAND HAS LEARNED NUANCE OVER THE LAST 60 OR SO YEARS

Traitors, traitors everywhere
by Ben Macintyre

"Britain used to see fifth columnists at every corner. So why are we so calm about 'the Muslim threat'?
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Today Britain is facing its own fifth column conundrum, threatened by a shadowy group of internal enemies, engaged in a terror campaign against Britain. Like every classic fifth column, this one blends in: the enemies are British citizens, both Asian and white, often middle-class and virtually invisible. The terrorist squatting in a cave on the Afghan border is now a familiar enemy; the alleged bomber working out of a pebbledash semi in High Wycombe is far more terrifying.

Tackling the internal threat poses not just a logistical, but a moral, challenge: how to identify the internal enemy without whipping up anti- Muslim hysteria, how to encourage vigilance without stoking vigilantism, how to see your neighbour clearly, despite the knowledge that the killers could live and work next door.
After last month’s terror plot, Inayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary- general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: “Some people are keen to portray British Muslims as a fifth column, a mass reservoir of terrorists prepared to slaughter their fellow citizens.”
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One can see those [1] lessons being applied today. The security services have assiduously avoided a general clampdown on Muslim groups. Information from the public has been encouraged, but treated with caution. There have been serious mistakes, such as Forest Gate, but there is clearly a determined effort to avoid over- reaction: official pronouncements on the threat of Islamic extremism have been deliberately nuanced, and carefully measured.
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[2] But history clearly shows that when fear of a fifth column gets out of hand, the danger is blown out of proportion, playing into the hands of the insurgents and unfairly targeting entire communities.
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[3] The response to home-grown British terror suggests that the security services are conscious of history, aware that the enemy within can only be fought with care, realism and reliable intelligence, not with propaganda or by feeding public paranoia. This goes some way to explaining why the anti-Muslim backlash has not happened.
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[1] Lessons supposedly learned from the overreaction during WWII to reports of Nazi spies, etc.

[2] The moslem 5th column that the West is experiencing in the 21st century is nothing like anything the West has faced before.

[3] The result of the 30-40 year old "EURABIA" project may have something to do with it as well as the indoctrination of the "Nanny State" mentality that has British citizens looking to government for solutions. Except this time, it is the government that has signed onto the "EURABIA" project.

The British government, in their nuanced methods, is complicit in the DHIMMIFICATION of its citizenry.



Pertinent Links:

1) Traitors, traitors everywhere

2) 1001 Moslem Inventions

3) Eurabia: the Euro-Arab Axis (the book)

4) Eurabia, the interview with Bat Ye'or, the author of "Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis"

5) Eurabia, The road to Munich...By Bat Ye'or

6) Dhimmitude: The Status of Non-Muslim Minorities Under Islamic Rule

Dhimmitude: the Islamic system of governing populations conquered by jihad wars, encompassing all of the demographic, ethnic, and religious aspects of the political system. The word "dhimmitude" as a historical concept, was coined by Bat Ye'or in 1983 to describe the legal and social conditions of Jews and Christians subjected to Islamic rule. The word "dhimmitude" comes from dhimmi, an Arabic word meaning "protected". Dhimmi was the name applied by the Arab-Muslim conquerors to indigenous non-Muslim populations who surrendered by a treaty (dhimma) to Muslim domination. Islamic conquests expanded over vast territories in Africa, Europe and Asia, for over a millennium (638-1683). The Muslim empire incorporated numerous varied peoples which had their own religion, culture, language and civilization. For centuries, these indigenous, pre-Islamic peoples constituted the great majority of the population of the Islamic lands. Although these populations differed, they were ruled by the same type of laws, based on the shari'a.
This similarity, which includes also regional variations, has created a uniform civilization developed throughout the centuries by all non-Muslim indigenous people, who were vanquished by a jihad-war and governed by shari'a law. It is this civilization which is called dhimmitude. It is characterized by the different strategies developed by each dhimmi group to survive as non-Muslim entity in their Islamized countries. Dhimmitude is not exclusively concerned with Muslim history and civilization. Rather it investigates the history of those non-Muslim peoples conquered and colonized by jihad.
Dhimmitude encompasses the relationship of Muslims and non-Muslims at the theological, social, political and economical levels. It also incorporates the relationship between the numerous ethno-religious dhimmi groups and the type of mentality that they have developed out of their particular historical condition which lasted for centuries, even in some Muslim countries, till today.
Dhimmitude is an entire integrated system, based on Islamic theology. It cannot be judged from the circumstantial position of any one community, at a given time and in a given place. Dhimmitude must be appraised according to its laws and customs, irrespectively of circumstances and political contingencies.