2000! The Beeb makes the point that these are “suspected” Jihadists, but there’s enough evidence to warrant them being watched by MI-5. Since the English get over here so easily this report is sobering, and scary. Is it time to close the borders to England?

Jihad Watch has more on this story. LionHeart has a post on the arrest of a Jihadist from his home town. Drake’s Drum has a post detailing the police from Manchester’s desperate plea to the public for help spotting terrorists.

England is coming apart at the seams.

One of the side effects of British Islamification is that it is forcing a good deal of the population into alliances with Nationalists and radicalizes non-Muslims and those who aren’t part of the leftist elite, turning them to the ideologies of racial self-preservation. Often these ideas, abhorrent to we Americans with our long history of assimilation, are couched in terms of cultural survival, perhaps because most people are rightfully uncomfortable with bigotry.

It makes it hard for Americans, myself included, to take the side of anti-Islamificationists when they are in bed with organizations like the B.N.P. who even though they are now thought by many to be “reformed” cannot, in my mind anyway, be judged without looking at their beginning as the National Front. Not that it makes a difference, but were I an Englishman, I’d vote Tory.

That being said, Leo Mckinstry’s lamenting the passing of his once great England may well be a little more than BNP-esque propaganda, but it conjures for us the pathos that leads many good men to the doorstep of the racialist politics of parties like the BNP:

ST GEORGE’S Day should be an occasion for patriotic celebration.

But for those of us who love this land, today has the tone of a funeral wake.

The England that we cherished has disappeared. We can only raise our glasses to the memory of a once great country whose spirit has been broken by her own rulers, its fabric torn apart by social revolution.

The words of that stirring wartime song There’ll Always Be An England have acquired a tragic poignancy. For there is no longer a real England – not the England that was once renowned for its gentleness and humour, its decency and sense of history, its rich language and inspiring landscape.

The relics of our past are still around us – such as the mon­archy or the village green –‑but they have been robbed of all meaning and vitality, becoming little more than heritage landmarks in a place without a soul.

I regularly read blogs like Lionheart and Drake’s Drum because their first hand accounts of life in a country on the verge of total Islamification are poignant, brilliant and tragic. At the same time I find myself wondering how two such men could be supporters of the BNP, which in many respects is opposed to the civilized ideal of a United kingdom which they want to defend. After reading McKinstry’s piece I’m closer to understanding, not to agreeing mind you, but understanding.

YNet’s reporting that an Islamist message board known to have Al-Qaeda connections was the scene of a disturbing exchange where an member seemed to be trying to drum up support for a conventional offensive aimed at taking over France.

France has already lost control of many of areas where young Muslim gangs have established “no go zones” for the police, and turned the inner cities into rape camps. Al-Qaeda could easily recruit from a increasingly criminalized populace, and stage attacks from the relative safety of areas where police and even the military would be afraid to go.

This is a development we haven’t heard the last of. I expect there will be Al-Qaeda operations in France within a year or so.

h/t Gallia Watch