{"id":12071,"date":"2023-10-29T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12071"},"modified":"2023-10-29T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T18:59:00","slug":"the-facts-are-now-clear-mass-illegal-migration-is-a-terror-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12071","title":{"rendered":"The facts are now clear: mass illegal migration is a terror threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;two Swedish fans were shot dead. The alleged gunman,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2023\/10\/17\/brussels-suspected-gunman-manhunt-abdesalem-lassoued-sweden\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">named as Abdesalem Lassoued<\/a>, posted two videos online, in which he claimed to be a \u201cfighter for Allah\u201d and that he was a supporter of Islamic State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here the script is depressingly familiar. Reports in the English and Belgian media state the gunman was Tunisian, had been in the country since 2016, and was \u201cknown to the police\u201d. His asylum application had been rejected in 2020, but a request to leave Belgium had not been enacted as Lassoued had moved house. A subsequent arrest for making threats on social media was working its way through the Belgian legal system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be easy to blame some of these problems on Belgium itself. Districts of Brussels have long been allowed to opt out from the rule of law, and the nation\u2019s multiple police forces are hardly a by-word for competence. But the situation is little better elsewhere. On Friday, France witnessed its second murder of a school teacher by an Islamist. Here the suspect was again \u2018known to the police\u2019 as an alleged extremist and has a brother in prison for terrorist offences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Britain is no better. In November 2021, an asylum seeker in Liverpool died while attempting to blow up the city\u2019s women\u2019s hospital. Emad Al-Swealmeen had originally entered Britain on a tourist visa, claiming he wanted to see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2023\/10\/02\/liverpool-bomber-maternity-unit-asylum-claim\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Britain\u2019s Got Talent<\/a>&nbsp;be recorded in Belfast. Al-Swealmeen was still in the UK six years after his asylum claim was rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huge numbers of primarily young men, have crossed Europe\u2019s leaky borders since 2015. Research for Policy Exchange earlier this year found 83% of those&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2023\/04\/12\/channel-crossings-national-security\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crossing the channel on small boats<\/a>&nbsp;in 2022, were male. We know next to nothing about who they are or what they believe. In many cases they move to communities where levels of integration is already poor, and extremist ideals have currency.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/facts-now-clear-mass-illegal-140725533.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/facts-now-clear-mass-illegal-140725533.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;two Swedish fans were shot dead. The alleged gunman, named as Abdesalem Lassoued, posted two videos online, in which he claimed to be a \u201cfighter for Allah\u201d and that he was a supporter of Islamic State.<br \/>\nHere the script is depressingly familiar. Reports in the English and Belgian media state the gunman was Tunisian, had been in the country since 2016, and was \u201cknown to the police\u201d. His asylum application had been rejected in 2020, but a request to leave Belgium had not been enacted as Lassoued had moved house. A subsequent arrest for making threats on social media was working its way through the Belgian legal system.<\/p>\n<p>It would be easy to blame some of these problems on Belgium itself. Districts of Brussels have long been allowed to opt out from the rule of law, and the nation\u2019s multiple police forces are hardly a by-word for competence. But the situation is little better elsewhere. On Friday, France witnessed its second murder of a school teacher by an Islamist. Here the suspect was again \u2018known to the police\u2019 as an alleged extremist and has a brother in prison for terrorist offences.<\/p>\n<p>Britain is no better. In November 2021, an asylum seeker in Liverpool died while attempting to blow up the city\u2019s women\u2019s hospital. Emad Al-Swealmeen had originally entered Britain on a tourist visa, claiming he wanted to see Britain\u2019s Got Talent be recorded in Belfast. Al-Swealmeen was still in the UK six years after his asylum claim was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Huge numbers of primarily young men, have crossed Europe\u2019s leaky borders since 2015. Research for Policy Exchange earlier this year found 83% of those crossing the channel on small boats in 2022, were male. We know next to nothing about who they are or what they believe. In many cases they move to communities where levels of integration is already poor, and extremist ideals have currency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/facts-now-clear-mass-illegal-140725533.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[728,26,493,25,108,115],"class_list":["post-12071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-europe","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12072,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071\/revisions\/12072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}