iBlockhead wrote:
I see that instead of answering my question of how the community knew, Tequi£a has started a new thread asking what if the terrorists were Jews, but instead using a Daily Mail source, which has this section in the middle of a larger article.
No, what I said was that it sounds like people in that community knew that they were going to terrorist training camps in Pakistan (i.e. they weren't just going 'home' to see relatives). What is being suggested is not necessarily that the Muslim community here knew that a terrorist attack was being planned, but that some knew that they were going to Pakistan to train as terrorists/shahids/martyrs and kept schtum. The point being that the police would have known what was going on a lot earlier if worried people had let the police know.
Would some of the people trying their best to ignore the lack of response from those in the know in the Islamic community in Birmingham have preferred it if people from the "white community" knew that racist elements from that community were up to something dodgy, but that wasn't directly related to a terrorist attack in the UK? Somehow, I think the response would have been extremely different.
I never used a Daily Mail source in the Douglas Murray article, and this thread doesn't use a Daily Mail source either. So I don't know what you're on about.
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