London Attack Exposes Lack of Counter-Radicalization Plan

The brutal Islamic terrorist attack in London Wednesday has generated fresh calls from leading anti-globalist politicians for enhanced security against lone wolf attacks and new measures to crack down on radicalization in Western Islamic communities.

“I really believe that some very searching questions are now being asked. I think the population of this country and indeed most of the other European states …. [is] now saying to our governments, ‘Look, frankly you have brought this upon us through immigration policies [and] not cracking down on extremism that has grown in communities,'” former UKIP leader and chief Brexiteer Nigel Farage told Fox News Thursday.

“I hear in Europe very often: Do not connect the migration policy with terrorism — but it is impossible not to connect them.”

“I hear in Europe very often: Do not connect the migration policy with terrorism — but it is impossible not to connect them,” Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, who is currently in a spat with the E.U. over Poland’s refusal to take in large numbers of Muslim migrants, told Polish news network TVN24.

“The [E.U.] commissioner [Dimitris Avramopoulos] should concentrate on what to do to avoid such acts as yesterday in London,” Szydlo said.

In France, right-wing populist presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said the tragedy highlighted the need for stricter border control. “The problem we have nowadays is this form of low-cost terrorism,” Le Pen said Wednesday. “We must control our borders.”

But for all the talk of the need for effective border control, the London attacker, Khalid Masood, was a British-born radicalized Muslim. “They always try and emphasize [the British-born aspect] because they’re so embarrassed about their immigration policies,” said Farage. “The point is we do have radicalization going on inside our country.”

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While Masood was not a migrant, his case highlights how a lack of assimilation can cross generations in modern Western societies.

“We have an assimilation problem right now,” former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino told Fox News. “It’s pretty clear that this worldwide PC effort for multiculturalism has failed,” Bongino added.

“What we’ve done is we’ve created these cultural silos in individual communities which have made it easier for people to be radicalized,” Bongino said.

The results of a new survey of French youths released this week indicate the shocking extent of potential radicalization of Muslims in that country.

A survey of 7,000 second-year students by sociologists Anne Muxel and Olivier Galland revealed a disconcertingly high proportion of Muslim students supported what the researchers termed “religious absolutism,” France’s Le Monde newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The researchers found that while roughly 11 percent of those surveyed overall adhered to “religious absolutism,” Muslims were far, far more likely to support “religious absolutism” than youths from other groups.

“Muslim high school students surveyed are three times as likely (32 percent) to adhere to this ‘absolutism’ as all high school students surveyed (10.7 percent). And five times more than young Christians (6 percent),” reported Le Monde.

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A poll taken in April 2016 found that a full two-thirds of British Muslims would not report a planned terror attack to authorities.

Some say the root of the problem is obvious since many mosques in Europe are funded and controlled by the fundamentalist Salafi school of Sunni Islam.

“Everyone knows that all mosques in Brussels are in the hands of Salafists,” Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur said in an interview published on Wednesday. “We need to change this, we need new mosques that follow our democratic rules and that are being controlled by the government.”