Britain: The next battleground in the war on terror

After Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, the next battleground in the global war on terror will be fought on no other than the soil of United Kingdom. Ironically, it may not be anyone else but Britain's closest ally USA, fighthing the war, with or without Britain's consent, with British government perhaps feeling completely powerless to avert such a catastrophe, unless it is prepared to risk a civil war once again on the British Isles. Not anytime soon I suppose.



All of this may not happen within a few years, but indeed will happen within our lifetime. Maybe not at the time of 2012 Olympics, but most certainly at a time when the demograhics of UK will have changed to show a picture completely different from what we are still finding it hard getting accustomed to.

The British Muslim population is growing and so is its disillusionment with the democratic system and the politicians. This feeling of despair is not based on realistic evidence but that is fabricated and manipulatively instilled into their mindset, systematically and painstackingly over generatons, eroding any remote sense of patriotism or emotional bondage with the country that is afterall their true home.

Such sense of alienation and loss of belonging to the country is compounded by the inherent fashion statements so very often proudly used, more often by non-Muslim indigenous Brits, to degrade and put down any expressions of patriotism, as uncool, BNP-like and "oh please" whenever soul perhaps like myself would dare to utter the word country, nation or loyalty.

The symbols of patriostism and those which pump energy and vigour into a nation's heart, such as the Union Flag, have been allowed to get hijacked by the far right organisations and those who wish to retain the symbols as their personal property. Furthermore, there isn't any Britishness left on this piece of land which we call Great Britain. There is an English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish identity, but none that refers to United Kindgdom as a whole.

In such an environment, British Muslim youth have been led to believe that their loyalties should not lie with Britain, albeit with the Global Muslim Ummah, even though nowhere else is such spirit of brotherhood displayed. Be it the Kindgdom of Saudi Arabia or the booming economic castles of Dubai, Pakistani or Bangladeshi "Muslim" labour-classes are treated with contempt, kept in sub-human conditions, whilst the ruling Arab Muslims benefit from their sweat and blood on low wages, non-existent labour laws or human rights, without giving the relief that would otherwise be bestowed upon fellow Muslims by their own.

In another example, the Jinjaweed militia, of Muslim Arab origin raped, maimed and tortured fellow Muslim tribes from Darfur, not so long ago. Iraq and Iran fought a bitter war lasting over 8 years, resulting in the blood of Muslims being spilled by fellow Muslims regardless of count in terms of volume or pity.

Palastenian refugees continue to live the life of misery and without proper rights in the slums of neighbouring Syria and Jordan, ever since their eviction from their lands caused outrage amongst the Islamic world. Their plight is still used to invoke the feeling of helplessness and rage against the "West" and the State of Israel, week after week on any given Friday, be it Pakistan, Britain, or any other country where Mullahs seek to use politico-relogious sentiments as a means to seek continuance of their stranglehold on the lives of Muslims, esp the young, tender hearted and worth exploitation. Yet, there isn't any mention of how Muslim "Ummah" continue to be treated by their own fellow religion followers, whether its UAE or Sudan amongst all other examples.

British Muslims, mostly hail from a region, where Islam was said to have been the foundation for a newly independent state of Pakistan in 1947, and not simple a secular state primarily for Muslims of South Asia who sought not to live alongside the majority of Hindu population post independence. The tribal mentality that exists in the north of Pakistan prevails very much within most of British Muslim communities, coupled with the constant barrage of Friday seromons in Urdu and Punjabi, rhetoric against the west very much the same that one might expect to hear in Afghanistan or Saudi private conversations. With such hightened emotions and sense of belonging to the Ummah rather than the land, British Muslims are being led towards a phase where they would not be able to see anything in common with the rest of British society. Their increasing demographic power would allow them the leverage to aggresively seek yet more segregation and rights unheard of in Europe, and any resistance would lead to violent reprisals and eventually a state of civil war.

However, before all of this happens, the current alleged preparations being made to attack USA and other western nations in the remote mountains of Pakistan, will most certainly shift to the northern towns of England and neighourhoods within Greater London.

The Jihadi idelogy twinned with the sense of loyalty towards the Ummah will perpetrate such anger and manifest in the form of terrorist actions that American patient will be tested time and time again over years and perhaps decades, finally yeilding to domestic pressure with disastrous consequences for the Anglo-American relations.

The only way out of this quagmire rests in the hands of British government of today and the opposition parties, which may or may not be sitting on the same benches in the years to come. Time to act is most certainly now, if they wish to protect the British Isles from strife, despair and civil unrest to the proportions of civil war and total anarchy.

Tough decisions taken today might not fare well for the major political parties in certain constituencies, yet they will ensure the continuation and preservation of a democractic civic society for which many across the world and on these very Isles, have fought and shed their blood. Let it not go to waste.