Londonistan Calling

In West London there is a school named for Prince Charles's friend King Fahd, with 650 pupils, funded and run by the government of Saudi Arabia. According to Colin Cook, a British convert to Islam (initially inspired by the former crooner Cat Stevens) who taught there for 19 years, teaching materials said that Jews "engage in witchcraft and sorcery and obey Satan," and incited pupils to list the defects of worthless heresies such as Judaism and Christianity.

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by Christopher Hitchens

vanityfair.com

June 2007
The London neighborhood of the author's youth, Finsbury Park, is now one of the breeding grounds for a new phenomenon: the British jihadist. How did a nation move from cricket and fish-and-chips to burkas and shoe-bombers in a single generation?

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They say that the past is another country, but let me tell you that it's much more unsettling to find that the present has become another country, too...

Good read:

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/06/hitchens200706?printable=true&currentPage=all