The BBC loyally
report that:
"Gordon Brown has called a summit in London to discuss radicalisation in Yemen, after the alleged failed bomb attack on a US plane over Detroit."
Radicalisation in Yemen! What about radicalisation in UK mosques and universities? Oh hold on that wasn't the case re Farouk Abdulmutallab because:
"A former close friend of Mr Abdulmutallab told the BBC he believes he was radicalised after leaving the country in 2008.
Qasim Rafiq knew the suspect for three years at University College London, and preceded him as president of its Islamic Society.
He says Mr Abdulmutallab had shown no signs of violent extremism while living in the UK. "
So the BBC are happy to take the word of this unnamed friend and ignore the other evidence that he was 'radicalised' much earlier
in Lome, Togo for example. And I'm sure you can find more...
All our government ministers seem to want to get onto the international stage, presumably in the hope of becoming some sort of international figure and possibly becoming a millionaire like Blair. They don't realise that this country now has very little real standing in the world - they should try reading some foreign newspapers instead of the British media and would note that we rarely get a mention.
ReplyDeleteOh to have politicians like those in Norway or Switzerland, whom no-one has heard of, and who just get on with running their own country in the interests of their own country with minimum international involvement!