UK Home Secretary calls Corbyn ‘threat to national security’
UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid has called Jeremy Corbyn a “threat to national security” for criticizing Islamophobia and racism in the country.
“A reminder of one of the biggest threat’s to our national security,” Javid wrote in a tweet on Monday, while retweeting an old video of Corbyn where he discusses the reasons behind radicalization of some Britons.
A reminder of one of the biggest threat’s to our national security https://t.co/MXRQqytehi
— Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) August 27, 2018
Concerned by the fact that some British youths have left the country to join the Daesh terror group in Syria, Corbyn says in the video that tackling Islamophobia and racism in British communities is key to tackling the Daesh terror group.
He then proceeds to criticize government measures in this regard, including denying the British nationals the right to return and revoking their passports.
“I’m not a supporter of ISIS,” Corbyn says in the video, using a synonym for Daesh. “I’m not condoning what they do or what they are trying to achieve.”
“And I do think that the way to deal with this issue isn’t by a legal process, which seeks to ban people from traveling,” he argues. “The important thing is to deal with the issue politically and challenging Islamophobia and racism.”
The British government first revealed in 2016 that around 850 Britons had joined Daesh and other terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq.
Many of Daesh’s British members have moved up in the ranks to become chief media and propaganda agents.
One man, known commonly as Jihadi John, rose to fame after beheading several western nationals while taunting their governments on camera.
John was part of a four-man, English-speaking terrorist cell that orchestrated the kidnappings and videotaped the gruesome beheading. The cell was called “Beatles” by some hostages, named after the famous British rock group.
British officials have long warned that Daesh members would wreak havoc in the country if they get a chance to return.
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However, several deadly terror attacks across England over the past years show that the government’s preventive policies have failed.
British Prime Minister Theresa May warned last year that the MI5 and other intelligence agencies had been monitoring 3,000 individuals across the country who were being monitored for posing the biggest possible terrorist threat.
Corbyn has on many occasions blamed Prevent, the government anti-terror policy, for the radicalization of British youths.
This is while, ironically, the Prevent Strategy was set up by the UK government in 2003 with the very purpose of preventing people from becoming radicalized and committing terror attacks.
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