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(Fox News) British police arrested nine men, including radical cleric Anjem Choudary, in London anti-terror raids early Thursday.
The Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism command arrested the men, ranging in age between 22 and 51, on suspicion of being members of banned organizations as well as supporting and encouraging terrorism.
Scotland Yard has also raided homes, businesses and community centers as part of the probe. Searches were underway Thursday at 18 sites in London and one residence in Stoke-on-Trent. Police said in a statement that the arrests and searches were part of an ongoing investigation into Islamist-related terrorism rather than any immediate risk to public safety.
Choudary is the former leader of the Islamist group al-Muhajiroun, or Islam 4 UK, which was banned by the British government in 2010. He is suspected of radicalizing hundreds of fighters for the Islamic State militant group, including the man believed to have beheaded American journalist James Foley last month.
“If Muslims go anywhere in the world to defend their brethren, this is a good thing. Of course it should be permitted to go and fight,” Choudary told FoxNews.com last month. “Anyone who goes and stands alongside them [the fighters in Iraq] is noble. In anyone’s book it is the right thing to do.
"We could easily have conflict here [in the West] soon," he added. "I believe people are ready for it. We want to walk under the beauty of Shariah."
The arrested men were being held at police stations in central London.
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DP111 · 550 weeks ago
We have a couple of options.
1. We attack Jihadis in their homeland.
But that will lead to ever more terrorist attacks within the West by "disaffected" Muslims, as they see Muslims nations invaded. They will also claim, and many a time quite correctly, that women and children have been killed. This will lead to some general sympathy for their cause.
Such a policy leads to increasing escalation, leading eventually to us taking such drastic action that it will sully our conscience for decades.
2. Designate Islam as a threat of the same order as Nazism or communism.
To stop continuous profiling, and complains that will arise as a consequence, bite the bullet.
Follow this by enforcing an exchange of populations- Christians in Muslim countries for Muslims in the West.
My view, long held, is that we need to have a separation from the islamic world. As a start one needs to take them at their own words and agree wholeheartedly that there is indeed a dar ul islam and a dar ul harb, and for the good of humanity, infidels and muslims alike, it is better to live apart in respective our respective worlds.
Muslim nations, left to their own devices, unable to export their excess population, an ever deteriorating infrastructure, increasing poverty and diminishing military power, will have no alternative but to reform islam. And even if they do not, they will not be a menace to the safety and security of the rest of the world, for the simple reason that they will not have access to harvest infidel lives, or the ability do so.
I believe we are moving along the option 2 path.