Why are British Universities Producing Islamic Terrorists?
The Stockholm bomber, Taimour al-Abdaly, was the latest Muslim graduate from a British university to become a terrorist in the name of Islam. Coincidence?
Iraqi-born Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly became the latest Islamic terrorist to have passed through the British university system on December 11th, 2010, when the former University of Bedfordshire student blew himself up in a Stockholm street. Last year's failed plane bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (University College London), was said to have become radicalised while studying just a little further south in the capital. British universities are under suspicion of allowing themselves to become breeding grounds for Islamic radicalism. Is it coincidental, or is there something about the university system that provides a fertile environment for brainwashing fundamentalists.
University is Traditionally Liberal and Rebellious
Universities have a reputation for been liberal and rebellious. This was particularly evident in the 1960s, when university campuses became hotbeds of rebellion against what they saw as the authoritarian capitalist system.
This continued through the decades until after the Cold War, when Islamic Fundamentalism took over from Communism as the biggest rival to the American global policeman.
Islamic Fundamentalism Declares War on its American Ally
The USA had been an ally to Muslims in Afghanistan and the Balkans, but Osama Bin Laden objected to American troops being stationed in the Middle-East after the Gulf War, which resulted from Iraq's invasion of its Arab neighbour, Kuwait.
This led to the bombing of the World Trade Center in the 9/11 attacks of 2001, following an earlier failed attempt in 1993.
George Bush Jr. Falls into the Al-Qaeda Trap with Iraq Invasion
While most of the world was sympathetic to the USA after 9/11, the resulting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq involving British forces provoked student protests on British campuses.
As the death tolls increased, and the wars became quagmired, students started to call Bush and Blair the terrorists. This seems to have fulfilled the desires of Osama Bin Laden, who had stated in an interview with Tony Jones (abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/24/2013753.htm, Aug 24th, 2007) that he wanted to lure American troops into a bloody ground war.
British Students Largely Only Focus on UK and US Wars
Most British students only take an active interest in wars that receive regular media coverage, and that usually means wars involving British troops and the Middle-East. Other Islamic wars across the world receive little attention in the British media, which tends to report them episodically.
This plays into the Al-Qaeda propaganda strategy of blaming the rest of the world for its wars and claiming victimhood, while steadily building the Islamic caliphate. When the media do report Islamic wars or terrorism they are usually met with cries of Islamaphobia from even moderate Muslims.
British Universities Seem to Support the Al-Qaeda World View
The British liberal establishment seem prone to political correctness when it comes to not upsetting Islam, yet universities didn't think it wrong to single out Israel for boycott, and ignore all the human rights abuses in Arab countries. That totally supported the Al-Qaeda world view propaganda.
Muslims were not complaining about British foreign policy when they were basically acting as the Muslim KLA's air force as part of the NATO campaign in Kosovo. Some Muslims won't be happy until Britain is helping spread Jihad.
Instead of justifying Islamic terrorism by citing British foreign policy, British universities should be doing more to educate students about all of Islam's wars, as Al-Qaeda tries to colonise Europe, Asia and Africa within its caliphate.
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