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By Jan Moir
If you are a wannabe terrorist with hate in your heart, do not despair. The doctor will see you now. Over a cup of tea and a few Rorschach inkblot tests, he will sort out this silly jihad nonsense once and for all. Custard cream? Now let’s concentrate on the cards.
What do you see? Bloody shackles of the infidel capitalist system. Oh dear. What about this one? Blair the pig-killer on his knees surrendering to Allah, Most High. Hmm, let’s try something else. What is the first word that comes into your mind when I say: free therapy for terrorists everywhere? Yes. I thought it might be that one.
The Home Office has just announced an extra £12.5 million in funding to support counselling initiatives in an attempt to stop extremism spreading. How very kind. This is the same Government that would not help a 64-year-old, tax-paying, law-abiding woman dying of cancer – because she had the temerity to spend her savings on drugs not available on the NHS, and was denied free health care as a result – but that will offer succour and comfort to any malcontent or murderous youth plotting to blow us to pieces.The key part of the new de-radicalisation scheme is to offer therapy to fanatics who have fallen under the influence of violent organisations, although the Home Office is laughably careful not to mention who or what those organisations might be. Typical.
This political temerity, and many of our current problems, can be traced back to the Lawrence Report in 1999, in which the Metropolitan Police was deemed institutionally racist. Since then, the security forces and the Government have been paranoid about their treatment of all minorities, especially Muslims. There has never been a sensible middle ground where everyone, no matter what colour or creed, is treated fairly.
That is our quiet shame, and one of the reasons why hate preachers were allowed to flourish and corrupt at leisure in this country. When trouble starting percolating in the mosques, the boiling cocktail of race, religion and political correctness kept the police and politicians at bay for years, with the calamitous results we are sadly now all too familiar with.
So what does the Government suggest to ease the situation? Therapy.
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