The Yorkshire town under the spotlight for the wrong reasons

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Ten years after 7/7 ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan plotted the London bomb attacks from his home in Dewsbury, the West Yorkshire town, which has a large Muslim population, is once again back in the national spotlight for the wrong reasons with the death of Britain's youngest suicide bomber.

Beleaguered town of Dewsbury back in spotlight

By Lauren Potts
BBC News
15 June 2015

Residents in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, have found the town suffering negative headlines in recent years

Ten years after 7/7 ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan plotted the London bomb attacks from his home in Dewsbury, the West Yorkshire town is once again back in the national spotlight for the wrong reasons with the death of Britain's youngest suicide bomber.

The streets of Savile Town in Dewsbury are quiet. A couple of homeowners are tending the neat gardens of these tidy terraced houses and an elderly woman laden with carrier bags makes her way back from the corner shop.

Nobody is willing to share their views on the death of Talha Asmal, a seventeen year old who has reportedly carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq.

In the town centre, away from the teenager's former home, people are more willing to talk.

Sidra Hussain, 21, said: "I believe that if you follow Islam, you can't even take your own life, you know it's the wrong path.

"I'm a Muslim and [what he's done] isn't something I approve of. Islam is about peace and what Isis is doing isn't a reflection of that.

"That young lad was probably gullible and led into it. I think everybody in the community, not just Muslims, need to [stick] together."

"People think they're doing something good, but they aren't. The true meaning of what these youngsters are led into [is something] they don't understand."

Qari Asim, an Imam in nearby Leeds, said radicalisation was not taking place in mosques, but young people were being "brainwashed" online by people for their own "political aims and gains".

Market Place in Dewsbury town centre

Neighbours of Talha Asmal remained behind closed doors after the news of his suicide bombing emerged

17-year-old Talha Asmal, from Dewsbury (shown above preparing for the attack), ran away to join Islamic State and has become Britain's youngest ever suicide bomber by blowing himself up near an oil refinery south of Baiji in Iraq

Sarah Hussain, 21, said the knowledge the teenager was lured to Syria by Islamic State was "scary".

"I just want everything like that to end. I want Dewsbury to get back to normal," she said.

It's not the first time this West Yorkshire market town has been under scrutiny.

In July 2005, Mohammad Sidique Khan, a 30-year-old married father-of-one, was the oldest of the four suicide bombers who attacked London's transport network. The classroom assistant detonated enough explosives on a Circle Line underground train near Edgware Road to kill himself and six others.

Mohammad Sidique Khan, who was responsible for the Edgware Road underground bombing which killed himself and six others on 7 July 2005, was also from Dewsbury

Karen Matthews, the mother of the then nine-year-old Shannon Matthews who disappeared in her home town of Dewsbury in February 2008, with a a poster from the Sun newspaper offering a £50,000 reward for the safe return of Shannon. The search for her became a major missing person police operation which was compared to the disappearance of Madeline McCann. She was found on 14 March 2008 at a house in Batley Carr, a short distance from Dewsbury. The house belonged to 39-year-old Michael Donovan, uncle of Craig Meehan - the boyfriend Karen Matthews. The kidnapping was subsequently discovered to have been planned by Karen Matthews and Donovan in order to generate money from the publicity. They were each jailed for eight years in January 2009

Then, in 2008 Shannon Matthews, "disappeared" from her home in Batley Carr - only to be found three weeks later in her stepfather's uncle's house.

The area has struggled to shake off its bad reputation ever since, said a man, who gave his name as Tom.

"There's nothing in the last few years that's been said about Dewsbury that's good," he said. "It's embarrassing for the town and the community and [this] doesn't paint the town in a good light."

Referring to Talha Asmal, he said: "People have their religions and their beliefs and some are just brainwashed and that's what happened with this lad. He will have thought he was doing it for the greater good.

One man in Dewsbury said Talha Asmal was not a martyr, but "a statistic"

"But he hasn't become a martyr, he's become a statistic."

What's important to remember is the number of those leaving the country for Syria are small, said Professor Paul Rogers, from Bradford University.

"IS presents itself as a guardian of Islam and for a tiny proportion of people it gets through to them, and IS manipulates them particularly for suicide bombing," he said.

"You can't explain who will do it and, in the great majority of cases, family have no knowledge this is going on."

But what can be done to stop another youngster following Talha's lead?

"We've got to get to the root of it," says one man, who wished to remain anonymous.

"Communities can't do anything. They can go out and go on demonstrations, but Imams and political leaders need to clean all this rubbish out.

"It gives us a bad name. It gives the town a bad name."


Beleaguered town of Dewsbury back in spotlight - BBC News

 

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8OOne less to worry about, if you were worried.

As long as they're willing to explode in the middle of a vacant field, the govt. should supply the explosives.

............explosive news.:roll:

 

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8OOne less to worry about, if you were worried.

Loads more in Dewsbury and in places like Bradford, Blackburn, Luton, Leicester and Tower Hamlets.

And they breed like rabbits.

Here are a group of pupils greeting Michelle Obama when she visited Mulberry School for Girls in the London Bangladeshi Borough of Tower Hamlets earlier today.

Need I say more?

Michelle Obama hugs pupils on visit to east London school - Telegraph

 

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Loads more in Dewsbury and in places like Bradford, Blackburn, Luton, Leicester and Tower Hamlets.

And they breed like rabbits.

Here are a group of pupils greeting Michelle Obama when she visited Mulberry School for Girls in the London Bangladeshi Borough of Tower Hamlets earlier today.

Need I say more?

Michelle Obama hugs pupils on visit to east London school - Telegraph

You are aware those students are of the Hindu religion? Right?

 

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Also aware that Ms. Obomber is fugly.

 

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Also aware that Ms. Obomber is fugly.

So are all of those pupils she's with.

Suicide bombing seems to have become a new Yorkshire tradition

Life has changed in Dewsbury and Bradford. We've let people there down – but not in the way the bien pensants tell you

Rod Liddle
20 June 2015
The Spectator
78 Comments

Suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan, from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, relays a message before claiming the lives of six people and injuring 120 in the Edgware Road Circle Line attack of 7/7 (Photo: Getty)

Where would you rather live, Dewsbury or Bradford? I ask because it seems that there are probably some good property deals to be had in this particular corner of West Yorkshire right now, as a consequence of half the population decamping to Syria in order to blow themselves up. I mean, property was pretty cheap already — in Savile Town, Dewsbury, right in the heart of the Muslim ghetto, you can buy a nice grey stone cottage for not much more than fifty grand. Two beds, back yard, only a stone’s throw from the local sharia court and that vast mosque run by those jovial extremists Tablighi Jamaat. But it’ll be even cheaper now, I would guess.

Dewsbury in particular is getting a reputation as Detonation Central — the Muslims there seem ready to blow themselves up at the drop of a hat. Ask one of them the time of day — and boom, entrails all over your jacket. Three of the four savages who carried out the July 2005 bombings in London came from the area, as did Britain’s first really young Islamist extremist, Hammad Munshi. And now there’s Talha Asmal who, at 17, has become Britain’s youngest ever suicide bomber (sub-editors — please check this with one of the McWhirters).

Dewsbury Rams vs Bradford Bulls: Blowing yourself up in the Middle East is now becoming as much of an obsession for the people of these two neighbouring West Yorkshire towns as rugby league is

Talha blew himself up near an oil refinery in Iraq, and his family are said to be distraught and shocked. ‘He was just a normal Yorkshire lad,’ one family friend commented, a little incongruously — although I suppose he was pretty much par for the course in that particular swath of the county. Eeeh bah gum, that’s a reet fine suicide belt tha’s wearing, our Iqbal. Meanwhile in Bradford, three sisters and their nine children have gone missing after a pilgrimage to Medina, in Saudi Arabia, and are believed now to be somewhere under the auspices of the Islamic State, in a voluntary capacity. The BBC and the Guardian are terribly concerned about them, worried about their safety. Me — I’m slightly less so, to tell you the truth. In the first place, I don’t see why we should restrict the movement of people wherever they might want to go — they wish to travel the world, do a spot of beheading and be blown up by a US airstrike, I say bon voyage. And if they can encourage a few more similarly minded people to do likewise, all the better. All I would add is — whatever you do, don’t let them back in. Any of them.

There is the usual state of denial in both communities — Dewsbury and, eight or nine miles to the north, Bradford. In the latter case, the husbands of those sisters have moaned that the UK police have done very little to help them find the women. But why should they? It’s a free country. Over here, women are allowed to piss off whenever they want. You don’t like that level of freedom, then go and join them. No, really.

Just ten miles separate the small town of Dewsbury (above), in West Yorkshire's Heavy Woollen District, from Bradford (below), Britain's fifth-biggest city. Both have large Muslim populations

And then there’s Savile Town, Dewsbury — a little quadrant of hell created by arrogant, deluded, well-meaning white liberals infused with the multicultural ethos. Just as the current chaos and bloodshed in Iraq and Syria was brought about, come to think of it. The whites have been leaving Savile Town for years and those remaining were told that they were ‘racist’ if they objected to the changing character of the place in which they had lived for all of their lives. The pubs were closed down, or ransacked by Muslims and then closed down. The local women’s hockey team suffered intimidation when they turned out on the playing fields: the police told them they were a ‘provocation’ to the new local community and to go elsewhere. The local rugby team complained about jagged shards of metal and broken glass implanted in the ground where they touched down. The police told them, nothing we can do — go elsewhere. They went.

A sharia court was set up by Savile Town’s residents, which caused a few headlines nationally — but no matter that this court horribly discriminated against women; the white liberals argued that it was their culture and to oppose it was kinda racist, m’kay? The court is still there, doing its misogynist stuff. Those playing fields, once a source of both pride and recreation, were sold to the aforementioned extremist Islamic movement, Tablighi Jamaat — an organisation which yearns for all of Britain to be Islamic and rejects the notion of western education and cultural assimilation. Sold to the mosque by the local council for — one pound. It is now a vast edifice and Tablighi’s European headquarters. No more rugby and certainly no more women playing hockey. Virtually no white people, either — the area is now 98 per cent Muslim, largely Indian and Pakistani Muslim.

Meanwhile in Bradford, three sisters and their nine children have gone missing after a pilgrimage to Medina, in Saudi Arabia, and are believed now to be somewhere under the auspices of the Islamic State, in a voluntary capacity

Savile Town, Dewsbury, where Muslims have intimidated non-Muslims

And they have brought their vibrant political culture to Dewsbury, too — there was widespread voter fraud at the local elections there in 2005, with postal votes from Savile Town piling up in favour of one candidate, much to the annoyance of voters who had not been given the chance to fill in their ballot papers. They had been filled in for them. A police investigation ensued and in the end three men were cautioned, that’s all. The same story as in all the areas we have allowed to become Muslim ghettoes: the people there now suffer the same levels of corruption and repression which pertained in the countries they left. Oh, and the grooming rings. I forgot about the grooming rings. So much that this culture has delivered to us — it all piles up and one simply can’t keep track.

The delusions persist. Locals cannot understand how Savile Town has bred a suicide bomber, because Islam is a peaceable religion, isn’t it? But it is true that we have let down the people of Savile Town — and Bradford. Let down the original inhabitants, most importantly. And let down the incomers by allowing community leaders to replicate the political, social and religious culture of Pakistan.

This article first appeared in the print edition of The Spectator magazine, dated 20 June 2015


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