The entire country is a “hotbed of Muslim extremism.”
(Daily Mail) — Universities are failing to tackle the growing menace of Islamic extremism on campuses.
Although they have been aware of the problem for many years, university authorities are reluctant to combat it because they fear a decline in the number of foreign students, from whom they make millions of pounds every year, it has been claimed.
A report by a Parliamentary homeland security group said the evidence against universities was ‘damning’ and that there was no sign of the risk of student radicalisation diminishing.
The review highlighted serious problems and claimed that ‘some universities and colleges have become sites where extremist views and radicalisation can flourish beyond the sight of academics’.
The report called on the institutions to tackle the issue with ‘utmost urgency’.
Terror expert Professor Anthony Glees said the universities had failed to co-operate with the Government, making it much harder for them to tackle extremism.
He said ‘money-hungry’ institutions are more worried about their coffers than keeping the country safe and insisted they must allow counter-terrorist police access to campuses and clamp down on extremist Islamic societies.
He added: ‘We are dealing with people who hate this country and the way that it is governed.
‘Taxpayers would be sickened by the idea that taxpayer-supported universities are giving people the space to develop plans that will result in some of us being blown up.