The Enemy Within

"Oh British Government, oh people of Britain -- know that ... we will continue to wage jihad, break borders and one day invade your land where we will rule by the Sharia."
"You will lose this war, as you lost in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Abu Rumaysah, British citizen, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant jihadi

An English-speaking Islamic State (IS) fighter, who threatened Britain in a video

Born and raised in Britain, the product of the British education system and the social contract which equates with treating all citizens with due respect irrespective of heritage, ethnicity, gender, religious and political affiliation, here is yet another Islamist who has taken great pleasure in scorning what was offered him, preferring to take his stand for the brand of Islam that so hugely appeals to those for whom crucifixion and beheading represent just ends for those who are Infidels or apostates.

This man's clear British voice overlaid with the idioms of Islamist fanatics narrated the most recent video to come out of ISIL's professional propaganda machinery. This was a visually muted video, nowhere close to the gruesome mutations of Islamist justice that previous videos have been, that circulated on the Internet and drew the disgust of most, and the undying devotion of others who enjoyed what they viewed and felt compelled to join the Caliphate's hell-on-earth.

Where before victims were psychologically tortured with the expectation that was fulfilled, of beheading, of heads ripped off, of being tied to a speeding bumper, drowned in a cage, mashed by a tank, set on fire in a cage, this video was in contrast sedately morose in having orange jump-suited victims accused of spying for Britain shot point-blank in the back of the head, execution-style. That they were terrorized is unmistakable.

And this highlights a present-day conundrum. As the world has witnessed an ever growing tide of Muslims steadily gravitating through immigration across the world, leaving their countries of origin mostly because those countries are -- and are becoming increasingly more so -- dysfunctional, conflict-ridden, sectarian-abusive, tyrannies beset by Islamist militias attempting to overthrow the ruling tyrants, kingdoms, sheikdoms to enable them to rule by strict Sharia law, they are becoming ever more dangerous.

Western liberal democracies have absorbed these new immigrants, given them a place of comfort and haven, witnessed the unrest as migrant numbers increased to a critical point where European and North American Muslim communities agitate for Sharia law to take equal place with or supersede the law of the land, just as those communities continue to fail to integrate themselves into the indigenous community, nor value the welcoming social customs and heritage.

As the bitterness and division, tribal, clan and ethnic and sectarian violence increased in Muslim countries of origin, a further flood of migrants from the Middle East to East Asia and North Africa spewed refugees from conflict and instability, economic hardships and sectarian violence into Europe. Although ISIL recruits remain in a scant minority in a reverse trip from Europe to the Middle East, a significant number of Muslims living in Europe profess to sympathy for ISIL and its agenda.

British sounding child appears in the terror video

The video featured also yet another Muslim child, tutored to make the statement that "We are going to go kill the kafir over there", pointing to where the five victims were awaiting execution. Bringing children into the glorious world of jihad appears to be a feature of Islamist pride. Hamas in Gaza is well known to take pleasure in dressing infants in pint-sized Islamist gear complete with weapons and nor is this merely for visual delight; the schooling of children by Islamists who anticipate the new generation of jihadists take this mission seriously.

It is what is happening to Muslim children everywhere the umma exists; the introduction to the Koran, memorization of verses, teaching of the vital tenets and preparing the young who will grow into future fodder in the ranks of jihad to conduct the ongoing never-completed conquest that the Prophet Mohammad set out to accomplish when he introduced this tribal Bedouin-based religion  to an unwilling world that has now become captive to its viciously violent metastasizing.