Londonistan

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Londonistan is a derogatory term for the British capital London and the tolerance of the presence of various Islamist groups in London and other cities in Great Britain by the British government as long as they carried out their radical campaigns and terrorist activities outside the British Isles.

The expression is derived from the city name “London” using the Persian suffix “ -stan ”. The term has been used in a number of publications including the New York Times , Vanity Fair , The Weekly Standard, and Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within , a 2006 best seller. One theory suggests that the term refers to the middle of the Back in the 1990s, when French officials so voiced their displeasure with the growing presence of Islamist radicals in London and the inability of the British authorities to do anything about it.

After the terrorist attacks on July 7, 2005 in London, several leading international media reported that British security authorities had not acted decisively enough against Islamist terrorists for years to buy peace in their own country.

Ludwig W. Adamec notes that Western governments encouraged Islamist groups in their countries to stir up unrest and wage the armed struggle against communism , although pressure from abroad and September 11th changed this. The Terrorism Act 2000 ( Terrorism Act 2000 ) and the Law on Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security 2001 ( Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 ) would allow the government to detain people without charge if their presence in the United Kingdom as " is not considered to be beneficial to the public good ".

Individual evidence

  1. Christopher Caldwell: After Londonistan. In: The New York Times . June 25, 2006, accessed December 12, 2009 .
  2. Christopher Hitchens: Londonistan Calling. In: Vanity Fair . June 2007, accessed December 12, 2009 .
  3. ^ Irwin M. Stelzer: Letter from Londonistan. In: The Weekly Standard . August 1, 2005, accessed December 12, 2009 .
  4. Melanie Phillips: Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within , Gibson Square, 2007, ISBN 978-1-903933-90-9
  5. Omar Nasiri: Inside the jihad: my life with Al Qaeda: a spy's story , Basic Books, 2006, ISBN 978-0-465-02388-2 , p. 16
  6. BBC : What's the risk to London? , September 8, 2005, accessed August 30, 2012
  7. The New York Times : For a Decade, London Thrived as a Busy Crossroads of Terror , July 10, 2005, accessed August 30, 2012
  8. Le Figaro : Les limites du cynisme britannique , July 18, 2005
  9. ^ "Londonistan", in: Ludwig W. Adamec: Historical Dictionary of Islam . Second edition. ( Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements , No. 95) The Scarecrow Press 2009, p. 194 f. (the 1st A. was published in 2001)

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