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Those who cross the line of acceptable behaviour must always be brought to account, so it is quite proper that the news agenda is dominated by suspicions concerning Lord Levy, the policemen who shot Jean Charles de Menezes, and the NatWest Three.
Yet there has been barely a whisper since the revelation last week that civil servants at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have been supporting the activities of Islamists dedicated to the destruction of Western society.
Last week the journalist Martin Bright published an exposé of the FCO’s behaviour (http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/images/libimages/176.pdf) and showed that the FCO is actively promoting engagement with the likes of the Muslim Brotherhood and its associated groups.
Mockbul Ali, the FCO’s Islamic issues adviser, pressed for the granting of entry visas to Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, which exists to promote the establishment of an Islamic state brought about by jihad.
Mr Ali has also championed entry for Delwar Hossain Sayeedi a Bangladeshi MP who demands further terror against the West because the UK and the US “deserve all that is coming to them” for overthrowing the Taleban in Afghanistan. His previous visits have been accompanied reportedly by violence. To Mockbul Ali, all this marks Sayeedi as a “mainstream” figure.
Mr Ali’s views, based on the supposed merits of “engagement”, are now mainstream within the FCO. His colleague Angus McKee has even proposed direct funding of groups dedicated to wiping out Western civilisation: “Given that Islamist groups are often less corrupt than the generality of the societies in which they operate, consideration might be given to channelling aid resources through them, so long as sufficient transparency is achievable.”
None of this should come as a surprise. Deluded engagement with those whose existence is dedicated to destroying our society is par for the FCO course. As Halifax wrote to Eden in 1937: “I went to see the PM. He was very strong that I ought to manage to see Hitler . . . He truly observed that we might as well get all the contact we could.” Did we not learn in the 1930s the consequences of such contact with those who seek to destroy us?
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Many of the problems we face today, stem from the support of "our enemies enemy", or "The strongest faction" during the cold war. You would think we would have learned something by now.
"Did we not learn in the 1930s the consequences of such contact with those who seek to destroy us?"
Oh I think we did, which is why the anti-British Foreign Office promotes the interests of foreigners to Britain instead of the other way round. They may be British by birth, but the cultural Marxists regard that as a stain rather than as good luck.