James Lileks:

… In the name of compassion, I think they should be allowed to return. I mean, they’re begging. Doesn’t your heart just break?

It makes me wonder about where personal responsibility and facing the consequences of ones choices fits in here.

But wait, there’s more…

An intervention called the Channel Project run by a research agency called the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation & Political Violence. ICSR claim they have helped turn these returnees from their former warrior path. They do say that only one in nine returning fighters become engaged in terrorist activities.

“Treating all foreign fighters as terrorists, however, risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. It may sound tough, but it isn’t likely to be effective. Arrests and prosecutions will be needed, but they are just one part of the government’s armoury. It must also offer a way out. This is not about being soft: it’s about being smart.”

ICSR state that not doing reintegration in the 1980s helped spawn al-Qaeda. Their article makes interesting reading.

Surely Johnson – who proposed that all the British fighters in Syria should be presumed guilty unless proven innocent - should get with the programme.

David Williamson:

Yeah, front page headline on the UK Telegraph website – “‘Crazed’ machete killer ‘roamed back gardens looking for a victim’”. Not to worry – it wasn’t a Jihadist returning from Syria.

Fortunately, hand guns are banned in the UK – what could possibly go wrong?

“[The local Chief Inspector] then tried to downplay the possibility that the attack was terrorism-related.”

Another source relates that as he wielded the bloody machete, the murderer started screaming, “The cats have stolen my lighter!”

You know, you can’t make this stuff up.

Who’s Owen Brennan, by the way?

You summarized it perfectly, James, in the phrase “parallel societies”.

So called “hate crime” legislation creates a legal preference for one class of people over another. It negates legal equality. Gays receive more protection than straights, women more than men, blacks more than whites… and Muslims can live by completely separate standards.

In Britain, Muslims are the parallel society. In America, illegals from Mexico and other countries south of the Rio Grande are the parallel society. Note this Breitbart story today about free-for-all violence against Border Patrol agents in Texas. Victor Davis Hanson has written before about the effective establishment of a “shadow society” within the United States; a people immune from law enforcement and regulation, even as native and upright citizens are increasingly harassed via innumerable laws, absurd regulations, and totalitarian micromanagement. It’s a recipe for civil war.

I’d like to think that if Texas police failed so astoundingly to save young girls from organized gang rape, Texan civilians would grab their guns and rescue the girls on their own. Government’s authority is good only so long as it fulfills its most basic responsibilities.

A good podcast guys, but it made harrowing listening.

This has been going on for 16 years and now the press is reporting it? I don’t think Delingpole is incorrect in his assessment of the media at all.

The problem with this story is there are no Irish Catholic nuns. A fabricated guess can dominate news for weeks if Irish Catholic nuns who have long passed are blamed.

If a story involves 1,400 children being abused as part of a for profit scheme where the perpetrators make GBP200,000 pa per girl, it will take 15 years to be revealed.

So the United Kingdom’s dreamers are getting out of hand?
Not to worry it will work out just fine here in the U.S.

Thanks, James, for spending the entire podcast on this important topic. I’ve volunteered for years for an organization in Southeast Asia that helps teenage girls recover from being sex-trafficked. Some of the girls make it through the recovery process and become strong survivors; others just aren’t able to. It’s heartbreaking. The girls in Rotherham have a long road of recovery ahead.