Ed West Ed West

Nobody will dare satirise the multiculturalism that allows Islamism to flourish

So, ‘Jihadi John’ is Mohammed Emwazi, a young Kuwaiti immigrant from Queen’s Park in north-west London, another first-rate product of the British education system.

Queen’s Park is one of those very mixed areas of London; the expensive Victorian properties are filled with people who 10 years ago might have lived in Notting Hill and 10 years before that Kensington. There are also lots of scary housing estates too.

It’s also part of the greatest Arabian Diaspora that extends out of Edgware Road and into the districts of Westminster and Brent; previous Jihadi John suspect Abdel Bary was an aspiring rapper from nearby Maida Vale who was last seen tweeting a picture of himself holding a head beside the caption ‘chillin’ with my homie or what’s left with him’. His father was considered too extreme by the Egyptians. The British authorities, with that almost touching northern European naivety that Arab governments find so infuriating, allowed him and his family to settle here. Wonderful.

Mohammed Emwazi had gone to the University of Westminster, which yesterday was supposed to have been hosting a talk by ‘radical preacher‘ Dr Haitham al-Haddad. This had to be cancelled due to ‘sensitivity and security concerns’.

Isn’t it time that British universities were rated by the number of jihadis they produce? Not failed jihadis who blow themselves up in restaurant toilets, but real worldwide names; it could come under the ‘graduate prospects’ category.

I mention all this because for anyone who has followed the news stories about the depressing litany of Islamists produced by Britain, there is a reassuringly predictable pattern. Likewise with the people who give them moral and cultural support.

Take the reaction of Cage, a campaign group much feted by sections of the liberal media, which has received

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