p style=”padding-left: 40px”>Blunkett, who served as home secretary at the time of the September 11 terror attacks, said the threat of Islamic extremism globally had returned to a similar scale and nature as 25 years ago and said the report was vital in order to understand the nature of the Islamist threat in the UK.
He wrote: “24 years later, the Taliban, who had been removed by international intervention in Afghanistan, are back in charge of that country. Divisions and conflict in the Middle East are commanding the attention of the world for all the wrong reasons.
“So, whilst it might seem counterintuitive to publish a report concentrating on Islamic terrorism, the truth is that understanding the enormous and ongoing threat to our wellbeing, as Tony Blair did in his Chicago speech of 1999, requires both analysis and ongoing vigilance.”
He added: “Chronicling the genuine danger of allowing antisemitism to emerge wherever and whenever the historic roots of hatred show themselves is a valuable contribution to warnings for the future by reflecting on the past.”
Not to worry. The government is busy preparing sterner new laws against Islamophobia.
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