It is a strange situation to be in when your country decides that it is more concerned for the well being of people who want to kill you and everyone you know than it is for the safety of yourself and your fellow British citizens, but that is now where we all find ourselves. This month the Special Immigration Appeals Commission rejected the Home Office’s request to deport Abid Nasser and Ahmad Faraz Kahn back to Pakistan from where they had originally come. Travelling to the UK on student visas this was never intended to be your conventional student year abroad experience. Abid and Ahmad along with the eight other men they came to Britain with were not here to catch up on a bit of sightseeing, sample the local cuisine, pick up a bit of the lingo and join in the general student revelry safely away from mum and dad. No these boys in their early twenties were Al-Qaeda operatives with the intention of blowing up British people across North West England. It is not entirely clear what led these young men to identify Easter shoppers in Liverpool and Manchester as being particularly decadent westerners more deserving of incineration than those living elsewhere in the UK but the group began preparations for their mass murder none the less.
None of any of this seems to have been of the slightest interest to Britain’s immigration services who for years now have considered the interests of anyone wishing to come to this country to far outweigh those of British citizens already living here. After all it was not that the Commission claimed that the men weren’t Al-Qaeda ringleaders, they admitted they were. Nor was it that they doubted they posed a risk to the public, the report released by the appeals commission stated very clearly that these men were a direct threat to the British public. Yet judged to be more important than any of this was the commission’s concern that if returned to Pakistan the terrorists might face torture and even execution. Clearly the eight other men who Abid and Ahmad came to Britain with and who the Home Office also wanted deported had no such concerns for their wellbeing in Pakistan for they all returned there on their own accord. As for the two that will be continuing their stay here with us in UK, with no explosives found in their possession, they shan’t be going to prison either. Instead the best our security services can offer us is a control order; a costly but ineffectual measure to make it look as if someone is doing something.
As the political commentator Douglas Murray put it: this is not the behaviour of a society that wishes to survive. But then such calls will be wasted on vast swathes of the population who have so little appreciation for either the true worth or fragility of Britain’s liberal democracy or indeed pride in their national heritage that they are positively disinterested in the continuation of their own society. Of infinitely more concern to them is that the State they happen to live in should be the embodiment of enlightened multi-cultural tolerance and conform to the highest demands of the morality invented by the European Human Rights Commission. There are also significant sections of the population for whom Douglas Murray’s call will be utterly repugnant; their nihilism expresses itself as an open hatred of everything related to our culture and for them, whether they be members of far-Left groups or radical Mosques, the sooner traditional British society and its values are swept away the better.
Against all of this it seems that little can be hoped for as far as the government is concerned. The new Conservative Home Secretary has already said that she will not be further appealing the Commission’s decision. Once David Cameron had promised us all a new vigour in the fight against Radical Islam and the scrapping of the Human Rights Act in favour of a British Bill of Rights. However one or two things have changed since then. For one thing the Conservatives are now sharing power with the Liberal Democrats, a party who has attempted to appeal to the worst elements in political Islam, targeting Muslim areas with anti-Israel leaflets and whose leading figures such as Jenny Tonge and Simon Hughes, who proclaimed ‘thanks be to Allah’ during an election rally, have openly allied themselves with Islamists. So it would seem that the British public will just have to take its chances, our authorities no longer seem to have the will or the ability to protect us from foreign Jihadis wishing to blow themselves up on our highstreets.
None of any of this seems to have been of the slightest interest to Britain’s immigration services who for years now have considered the interests of anyone wishing to come to this country to far outweigh those of British citizens already living here. After all it was not that the Commission claimed that the men weren’t Al-Qaeda ringleaders, they admitted they were. Nor was it that they doubted they posed a risk to the public, the report released by the appeals commission stated very clearly that these men were a direct threat to the British public. Yet judged to be more important than any of this was the commission’s concern that if returned to Pakistan the terrorists might face torture and even execution. Clearly the eight other men who Abid and Ahmad came to Britain with and who the Home Office also wanted deported had no such concerns for their wellbeing in Pakistan for they all returned there on their own accord. As for the two that will be continuing their stay here with us in UK, with no explosives found in their possession, they shan’t be going to prison either. Instead the best our security services can offer us is a control order; a costly but ineffectual measure to make it look as if someone is doing something.
As the political commentator Douglas Murray put it: this is not the behaviour of a society that wishes to survive. But then such calls will be wasted on vast swathes of the population who have so little appreciation for either the true worth or fragility of Britain’s liberal democracy or indeed pride in their national heritage that they are positively disinterested in the continuation of their own society. Of infinitely more concern to them is that the State they happen to live in should be the embodiment of enlightened multi-cultural tolerance and conform to the highest demands of the morality invented by the European Human Rights Commission. There are also significant sections of the population for whom Douglas Murray’s call will be utterly repugnant; their nihilism expresses itself as an open hatred of everything related to our culture and for them, whether they be members of far-Left groups or radical Mosques, the sooner traditional British society and its values are swept away the better.
Against all of this it seems that little can be hoped for as far as the government is concerned. The new Conservative Home Secretary has already said that she will not be further appealing the Commission’s decision. Once David Cameron had promised us all a new vigour in the fight against Radical Islam and the scrapping of the Human Rights Act in favour of a British Bill of Rights. However one or two things have changed since then. For one thing the Conservatives are now sharing power with the Liberal Democrats, a party who has attempted to appeal to the worst elements in political Islam, targeting Muslim areas with anti-Israel leaflets and whose leading figures such as Jenny Tonge and Simon Hughes, who proclaimed ‘thanks be to Allah’ during an election rally, have openly allied themselves with Islamists. So it would seem that the British public will just have to take its chances, our authorities no longer seem to have the will or the ability to protect us from foreign Jihadis wishing to blow themselves up on our highstreets.
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