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Smack in the heart of 'Londonistan' sits the Edgware Road, known for its mosques, colorful markets selling headscarves and niquabs and, above all, famous all-night shisha cafes. Since they were set up in the 1980s, the cafes have become a mecca for students, bohemians and free-thinkers of various stripe to congregate with Muslims and engage in that most ubiquitous of Middle Eastern pastimes, smoking the hookah. Scented tobacco is burned on coals and sucked through an ornate water vessel before being inhaled, inducing a strong nicotine high. Originally intended for visiting Gulf sheikhs and Middle Eastern expats...
...Princeton University Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis said that, thanks to immigration and Europe's low birthrate, Western Europe will have Muslim majorities by the end of the century: "Europe will be part of the Arab West, the Maghreb." He's not alone. The fear of a Eurabia (capital: Londonistan) populated by poor, angry, fervent Muslims is gaining ground. Islamists are "determined to subdue and colonize Europe," claims American essayist Bruce Bawer, in his book While Europe Slept. "Now, nearly the whole of Western Europe is practically within their grasp." Europeans, for their part, worry that its Muslim population...
...Britain's Muslim community seemingly so susceptible to radical ideas? Some of the pat explanations of a few years ago have had to be discarded. The well-known radical mosques that were at the center of "Londonistan" in the 1990s have had their wings clipped; as the investigations into the subway bombings showed, most young radicals don't get their ideas from mosques at all. They gather in youth clubs, gyms, bookstores or simply in someone's back room. (In a poll released in September by the Federation of Student Islamic Societies, only 2% of British Muslims said the mosque...
...everyone has enjoyed Britain's tolerance. In the years before Sept. 11, 2001, French authorities despaired at what they claimed was the tendency of the British authorities to turn a blind eye to events in "Londonistan." It was commonly known that the British kept radicals such as Abu Hamza al-Masri-- formerly the imam of the notorious Finsbury Park mosque--under tight surveillance. But in some quarters there was resentment that simply keeping tabs on radicals while they were in Britain did not stop London from being used as a recruitment and logistics center for operations elsewhere. Last year...
...city dubbed "Londonistan" for its large population of fervent Islamists, British security forces have done little since 9/11 to quell provocateurs like al-Muhajiroun, which is widely suspected of influencing young men to join the jihad. Many of the MAGNIFICENT 19 stickers plastered on lampposts and walls across Britain have been scratched off by authorities, but police rarely disrupt al-Muhajiroun's stalls or meetings. Last month police raided the homes of the group's leaders, Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad and Anjem Choudary, but both men remain at liberty...