Britain has raised the terrorist threat level to SEVERE
The UK's terror threat level has been raised from "substantial" to "severe" in response to conflicts in Iraq and Syria.
Never thought I would see the day this happening...shocking!
Oh well, we will be next no doubt.
Of course we must be politically correct and not say the threats are only coming from one section of the community.
WALEED Aly is the model moderate Muslim, used by the media to persuade us we have little to fear from Islam but our own bigotry.
His rewards have been great. Once the spokesman for the Islamic Council of Victoria, he is now an ABC radio host, a Channel 10 co-presenter and an Age columnist.
He is even a politics lecturer at Monash University’s Global Terrorism Research Centre, despite having no doctorate and having qualified in engineering and law.
This week Aly showed the style that’s made him such a pet of the establishment Left but a worry to me.
Nigeria’s Boko Haram group last month kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from a boarding school and its leader announced they were “slaves” he would sell. Two are already said to be dead.
As so often when Muslim terrorists strike, Aly was brought on by Channel Ten’s The Project to explain away our fears as “an expert in terrorism”.
“So who is this group exactly?” he was asked.
Not once in his answer did “Muslim” or “Islamic” pass Aly’s lips.
“They are a really, really hard group to define because they are so splintered and so diverse,” he said.
“What we do know though is that the broader movement is a terrorist movement and they’ve been wanting to overthrow the Nigerian government and establish a government of their own.
“But beyond that, this particular group, who have done this particular thing, it’s hard to identify who they are and they might just be vigilantes.”
From a lecturer from a Global Terrorism Research Centre, this answer is astonishingly uninformed.
There is no mystery about who took the girls.
A still from a May 5 video obtained by AFP shows the leader of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau (centre).
Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, has already shot a video of himself — part of which The Project showed — saying “I abducted your girls”, a boast not doubted by the Nigerian government.
Some girls who escaped confirm the kidnappers were Boko Haram terrorists who shouted “Allahu Akhbar,’ (God is great)” as they attacked the school.
Nor is there any mystery about Boko Haram’s agenda.
Women attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped schoolgirls. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Boko Haram means “Western education is sinful” — haram being the loaned Arabic word meaning sinful or forbidden by Allah. The group’s official title is Congregation of the People of Tradition for Proselytism and Jihad.
In his latest video Shekau stated his group’s agenda so clearly a true terrorism expert could not have missed it.
This was “a war against Christians”, Shekau shouted, and “real Muslims, who are following Salafism” should support him.
Sorry Geoff - I prefer up to date info from
The ABC news
"A group of Indonesian men have appeared in a recruitment video released by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) urging Indonesian Muslims to join the group's fight."
Which is getting close to home
Professor Greg Barton, a security expert from Monash University says we are only one flight away from ISIS and where it was thought the threat may have been receeding, it seems to have got a second breath and the chance of an attack is real.... tonight's news.
It would appear to me that Australia should also be raising its threat level in line with UK especially before the upcoming summit.