The answer to the question "why Britain?" is quite obvious. Islamists settled here from the late 1970s - early 1980s, and they have being feeling quite free ever since and it is not only about potential religious communities that can be found in fairly large Islamic community (1.2 million Pakistanis and half a million immigrants from Bangladesh, not counting people from other Islamic countries).
This opinion was expressed by deputy editor of the policy department in VZGLYAD.RU Mikhail Moshkin to Eurasia Diary on the series of terrorist attacks in the UK.
In his opinion, “Londonistan” could not have been formed without the connivance of the authorities.
A typical example: the ideologue of radical Islamism Abu Hamza al-Masri (who fought in Afghanistan on the side of the Mujahedeen, and who in 1990 supported terrorism in Algeria in the North Caucasus) for a long time was the imam of the London mosque in Finsbury Park.
When in 2006 the US demanded the extradition of a radical imam as a "world-wide terrorist", the call was neglected. The jihadist was sued in Britain, and instead of the expected life sentence, he was sentenced only to 7 years. In addition, during the process it turned out that Abu Hamza has worked for MI5.
According to Mikhail Moshkin, this "wandering" of Islamist radicals was not in vain. The series of attacks did not begin today: one can remember the explosions in the London Underground in 2005, but that was the work of Al-Qaeda. Now the task is taken by the groups operating under the "franchise" of the DAISH and using not only explosive devices (which can still be tracked) as a deterrent, but also trucks and knives which, of course, cannot be forbid.
Theresa May stated: the terrorists mainly use the most primitive methods. Secondly, performers now do not need long training in the camps of terrorist organizations. Therefore, we can expect preventive measures in relation to those representatives of Islamic communities in which the authorities can see potential terrorists. Terrorists aim for pressure that from the outside breeds bitterness and radicalization. "Terror generates terror."
"Conservative office of Theresa May can use panic in connection with terrorist attacks for political purposes. The parliamentary elections are coming, and during the campaign the conservatives criticize the Labor Party for "delicate treatment" with the Islamists. But in regard to the actual struggle against the "new edition" of terrorism, it seems that everything is limited to declarations," the political scientist says.
In conclusion, he added that this is indicated not only in Britain: Donald Trump, expressing his condolences to Teresa May with the recent terrorist attack, could not restrain himself and criticized the mayor of London, Sadik Khan, who after the explosion in Manchester said that he would not raise the level of the terrorist threat.
Interviewed by Natalya Guliyeva
