Suella Braverman’s counter-terrorism strategy identifies Islamic terrorism as the primary UK domestic threat. This announcement comes as the home secretary unveils her plans to prevent attacks, with her also identifying the internet and the incel movement as part of an “evolving and increasing” risk of terrorism.
The strategy, named CONTEST 2023, also states that convicted criminals in prison “may continue to pose a threat”.
“Russia, Iran, and China have all shown themselves to be far too willing to exploit and destabilise our country”, Ms Braverman said whilst speaking to an audience including terror attack survivors at Westminster Hall.
She went on to warn of the continuing danger of Islamic extremists but has also brought up the threat of the Involuntary celibate or Incel movement. The strategy says: “It is possible that violent adherents to movements and subcultures, such as Involuntary Celibacy (incels), could meet the threshold of terrorist intent or action”.
The report goes on to suggest that people can exit from prison and be more at risk of causing a terrorist offence.
There’s a few points to pick up on here. Firstly, is there a link between a higher risk of terrorism and anything else that’s getting bigger or higher?
Without wishing to bash any particular group or religion, if we insist on allowing people to come in from countries with an anti-western attitude, an attitude which is justified in some cases, then aren’t we just asking for trouble?
As for the incels, the establishment’s definition pretty much refers to anyone aged between 18 and 35, single and having watched an Andrew Tate video. So, that’s one way of swelling the figures.
The government and all the tentacles of power want you terrified. They want you scared to walk down the street. The terror threat in this country isn’t high enough for them. Like racism, the demand outstrips the supply so they need to broaden what constitutes terrorism. A terrorist used to be someone with a bomb in Belfast or a suicide vest in an arena. Now it’s a single lad with a chip on his shoulder who called a girl a “fat dog” in Wetherspoon’s!
So, what fate will befall these “terrorists” who say but don’t actually do? Well, they may very well fall foul of the terrorism prevention and investigation measures, or TPIMs for short. Subjects face measures such as wearing an electronic tag, being relocated to different parts of the UK, bans on internet use, and limits on who they can meet and where they can go.
Last week, a chap in his twenties was detained for breaking these rules when he was found to have a video camera and a sim card on him. Wearing a tag, relocated, no electronic devices and limited to where you can go and who you can speak to; that sounds worse than jail. These measures essentially say you can look but can’t touch. No wonder the terms keep getting violated.
The Homeland Party believe that this terrorism is born out of too many different groups occupying the same space and could easily be cut back by reducing the recipe for conflict.
In a healthy Homeland society, incels would be a thing of the past as young men and women will be incentivised to get married and have children and above all actually live in a society worth living in and being proud of.
