Senior policymakers in the United States said the attempted suicide bomb attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is thought to have become radicalised in London, was further evidence that one of the biggest threats to US security came from Britain, where the capital has been dubbed “Londonistan” by critics.

There was also criticism of the “ghettoisation” of British Muslims, compared with the “assimilation” of Muslims in America.

Muslim immigrants to the US were much better integrated in society and considered themselves Americans “within a generation” because the US embraced the “melting pot” concept, said Marc Thiessen, former chief speechwriter for President George W Bush and a former Pentagon aide.

“That doesn’t exist in Europe in the same way and particularly in Britain, which is a more socially stratified society than the US,” he said. “They live in Muslim ghettoes and feel alienated from the larger society and not accepted.”

Abdulmutallab was president of the Islamic Society at University College London between 2006 and 2007, while he was studying for an engineering degree. UCL, together with many other British universities, has been accused of failing to stop radical preachers giving talks on campus for fear of being accused of Islamophobia.

Daniel Pipes, a scholar on radical Islam and former adviser to Rudolph Giuliani during his presidential campaign, said: “The UK is a menace to the outside world. It’s been a problem for years now. This is just one more example.”

The Home Office refused Abdulmutallab a student visa in May and put him on an immigration watch list but did not pass this information to the US. While some officials have said the information could have helped American agencies, others have more fundamental worries about Britain and Europe.

“We are in grave danger as a result of the fact that we are lowering our defences by doing away with vital tools in the war on terror that have proven successful – all in response to the hue and cry from the European Left and to appease European opinion,” said Mr Thiessen. “You are still in the law enforcement approach to terrorism in Britain – the one that we seem to be returning to here in the US.

“The fact is there is no shame in aggressively interrogating terrorists or treating them as enemy combatants as opposed to criminals. What was attempted in Detroit, what was done to you on the London Underground, these were not crimes, they were acts of war.”

Charles Allen, a recently-retired veteran CIA officer who was intelligence chief at the Department of Homeland Security under Mr Bush, said: “The British have an immense problem. There are more challenges in Muslim immigrants integrating into British society than there is in America, a lack of assimilation, a great deal of alienation.”

As a result, al-Qaeda had “worked much harder to get Westerners, people who live in the West, who may be citizens of the West” to become recruits and train in places like the tribal areas of Pakistan and Yemen. “The British have the most immediate and serious problem.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6913572/Americans-blame-Britain-for-rise-of-Islamic-extremism.html

Good news, blame the cause leave nigeria alone- everyone keeps asking me al-qaeda is in Nigeria, I don tire

blkmum700:

Senior policymakers in the United States said the attempted suicide bomb attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is thought to have become radicalised in London, was further evidence that one of the biggest threats to US security came from Britain, where the capital has been dubbed “Londonistan” by critics.

There was also criticism of the “ghettoisation” of British Muslims, compared with the “assimilation” of Muslims in America.

Muslim immigrants to the US were much better integrated in society and considered themselves Americans “within a generation” because the US embraced the “melting pot” concept, said Marc Thiessen, former chief speechwriter for President George W Bush and a former Pentagon aide.

“That doesn’t exist in Europe in the same way and particularly in Britain, which is a more socially stratified society than the US,” he said. “They live in Muslim ghettoes and feel alienated from the larger society and not accepted.”

While I do not believe this person speaks for ALL OF AMERICA, I do agree that there is a problem in the way the European governments accomodate people of Islamic religion just because.

SEFAGO:

Good news, blame the cause leave nigeria alone- everyone keeps asking me al-qaeda is in Nigeria, I don tire

Tell them its not Al-Quaeda thats in Nigeria, its Boko Haram.

Na whao,

The blame started from Nigeria to Amsterdam and now to the UK.

I'm still saying it; this whole event will rarely change anything.

They are all confused now.

Na true europe has been a save haven 4 fugitive terrorist,when dey pursue ayatollah komieni na fraance he go hid,many of them full 4 london,dey spread hatred unchallange.