(Wall Street Journal) Douglas Murray - On Wednesday, Lee Rigby was killed in London by two men wielding large knives and shouting "Allahu akbar"-God is great. The attack itself is not surprising. What is surprising is that British society remains so utterly unwilling not just to deal with this threat, but even to admit its existence. In 1998 Amer Mirza, a member of the now-banned extremist group al Muhajiroun, attempted to petrol-bomb British army barracks. In 2007, a cell of Muslim men was found guilty of plotting to kidnap and behead a British soldier in Birmingham. In 2009, al Muhajiroun protested at a homecoming parade in Luton for British troops returning from Afghanistan. The writer is associate director of the Henry Jackson Society in London.
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