The Greatest Scandal

The men who did things like this are coming to a street near you

Britain's greatest scandal goes largely unremarked, but a couple of days ago the truth finally came out. Max Hill QC, the government's terror tsar, admitted that as a matter of policy the government is not prosecuting returning IS jihadis. In a Radio 4 interview he said:

“We are told we do have a significant number already back in this country who have previously gone to Iraq and Syria.

“That means that the authorities have looked at them and looked at them hard and have decided that they do not justify prosecution and really we should be looking at reintegration and moving away from any notion that we are going to lose a generation from this travel.

“It’s not a decision that MI5 and others will have taken lightly. They, I am sure, will have looked intensely at each individual on return.

“But they have left space, and I think they are right to do so, for those who travelled, but who travelled out of a sense of naivety, possibly with some brainwashing along the way, possibly in their mid-teens and who return in a sense of utter disillusionment.

“We have to leave space for those individuals to be diverted away from the criminal courts.”

So many lies, so little time. It's got to be a record and he's got to be a lawyer.

Hill starts by giving the impression that the authorities must make allowance for those (few?) who travelled to Syria as naive teens not knowing what they were letting themselves in for. But later when he talks of the  potential tragedy of 'losing a generation' it's clear he's suggesting that the vast majority of those who travelled to IS were idealistic youth. 

The reality is, of course, that Max Hill QC is lying. The vast majority of those who undertook the difficult journey to Syria were adult males. When the occasional teenager did go off we all knew about it. How could we not when the media chastised us for days about how we had somehow 'failed these children'? 

And far from going there to act as a sort of Muslim Peace Corps, in the main they went there after viewing dozens of IS torture-snuff videos. They watched cruel murders and decided they wanted their share of the fun. In short they knew exactly why they were going and what they would be doing when they got there.

Now these closest modern equivalent to the Nazis, who took up arms for their country's avowed enemy and committed the most disgusting atrocities since the Second World War, are being allowed to return to British streets. 
     
It's an almost comical irony that in Theresa May's Britain, you are more likely to be jailed for writing about Muslim atrocities (Islamophobia) than for actually committing them.

But in addition to the wicked injustice of this policy there is also a criminally stupid side to this scandal. 

After 22 were murdered and dozens more maimed in the Manchester atrocity, May famously declared that "Enough is enough!" But if enough were really enough, what better opportunity could there be to demonstrate the government's resolve than by removing the passports or prosecuting all those who had betrayed Britain and adopted the nationality of an enemy? 

Opinion polls and the comment threads of even left-wing newspapers reveal that such a policy would be very popular across the political spectrum. 

In short, the government could do the right thing by removing a dangerous threat to the British people and get a huge opinion poll boost into the bargain. What's not to like about that?

So why the hell aren't they penalizing returning jihadis?

Because the Muslim population wouldn't like it. 

By not prosecuting these returning jihadis, the government couldn't be saying more clearly that the head-hacking IS version of Islam is in fact mainstream Islam. If IS beliefs were really a sick perversion of Islam as May and Cameron have told us time and time again, then nobody would be more eager to punish these sick psycho-murderers than Muslims themselves. But what the government hears from its advisors is that Muslims would be upset if we prosecuted these IS volunteers. IS is mainstream Islam. The government's refusal to do both the right thing and the popular thing by prosecuting these evil scum is proof of that.

If you are not convinced of that. Consider why it is that 23,000 British Muslims have connections to terrorism. Consider that 55,000 Muslims downloaded a bomb-making guide over a three-month period. Consider the two-thirds of Muslims who told pollsters that they would not inform the authorities of a terror plot. And consider that more than half of Muslims in another poll said that Islamist Islam is mainstream Islam.

Mainstream Islam

One thousand avowed enemies of Britain and murdering psychos to boot are being allowed to return to the streets of Britain. Many British people are living happily, who will be murdered and maimed in the near future. Nothing is so certain. That's the greatest scandal in Britain. But don't expect the talking heads in the mainstream media to address it. They feel too guilty and too scared to touch it.

But what's Theresa May's excuse? What will she say when a returning jihadi murders some more children? 


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