Jihadists At Home

For the Metropolitan Police, such pictures were evidently more provocative than calls for holy war.

Official cowardice in the face of Islamic extremism has a long history in Britain, dating back to the Salman Rushdie affair of 1988, when Muslims were permitted with impunity to march in public calling for the death of the author of The Satanic Verses.

Now an estimated 100,000 people marched through the streets of London, again with impunity, more or less calling for genocide.

Hamas had just demonstrated what a "Palestine from river to sea," which many of the demonstrators called for, would mean for the Israelis, and it is highly probable that many in the crowd all but salivated at the prospect.

The crowd was chanting for a "Free" Palestine, which meant, in the circumstances, a Palestine ruled by a hardline Islamist movement-a government that would be to freedom in any recognizable sense what fire is to libraries.

Either the crowd was unaware of the absurdity of calling for a free Palestine under the control of Hamas, or it actually desired such a Palestine.

In the second case, since the Islamist doctrine is universalist, they were calling for the destruction, in due course, of British freedom and democracy as well; and since the younger generation's attachment to British freedom and democracy is definitely on the wane, the large and determined Islamist element that we have permitted to develop in our midst is very dangerous. 

https://www.city-journal.org/article/hamas-supporters-in-london