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In the wake of another Islamic terrorist attack in London, the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, has sent a letter of support to London’s mayor. The message was representative of the sentiments of Jerusalemites overall, who understand the horror of terrorism. Unfortunately, many politicians and media outlets refuse to clearly identify the problem. They instead bend over backwards to defend evil. We know, through experience, that ignoring the realities of Islamic extremism leads to dangers around the world – from Jerusalem, to London, to New York and Berlin. Together we must fight extremism and terrorism in all of its forms!
Image: Letter from Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat
London Bridge attacker named as Khuram Butt
Article: The Guardian
Khuram Shazad Butt, one of the three jihadi attackers who killed seven people in London on Saturday, was a supporter of the banned Islamist group al-Muhajiroun who only last month was spotted urging people in east London not to participate in the general election.
The 27-year-old was described by locals in his neighbourhood of Barking, east London, as the son of parents from Jhelum, a town in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Butt, who was born in Pakistan but brought up in Britain, was a keen supporter of Arsenal football club, whose shirt he wore during the attack, and spoke with a London accent.
The Metropolitan police admitted on Monday that he was known to the police and MI5 and they had opened an investigation into him in 2015. A few months later detectives received a call from a concerned member of the public on the anti-terrorism hotline with information about his extremism. But inquiries established no intelligence or evidence to suggest any terrorist activity or that an attack was being planned, according to assistant commissioner Mark Rowley, the UK’s top counter-terrorism officer. Butt’s case was moved into the “lower echelons” of the 500 most active counter-terrorism investigations.
“I have seen nothing yet that a poor decision was made,” Rowley said.
Butt went by the name Abu Zaitun and was known widely as Abs by friends at the gymnasium where he trained in weightlifting and at the two mosques where he worshipped. He had two young children, a son aged about three and a recently born baby, with a woman described locally as his wife. He reportedly had jobs on the London transport network and in a fast food restaurant and lived a couple of miles from his mother in Plaistow.
But in recent years his fundamentalist approach to religion repeatedly caused concern among people who knew him. He associated with al-Muhajiroun, the banned extremist group whose leader Anjem Choudary has been linked to the recruitment of more than 100 British terrorism suspects.
