RAF Cadet Is Dismissed From Course for Saying Islam Is ‘Greatest Threat’ to the UK

Who says the U.K. has free speech? The other day, an RAF cadet dared to say what a great many sensible people all over Europe and North America are quietly thinking: that the ideology of Islam is the “greatest threat” to their nations’ wellbeing. For his candor, instead of engaging with him in a free and open discussion about his claim, his RAF commanders promptly removed him from his training course. More on this latest attempt in the U.K. to silence critics of Islam can be found here.

An RAF cadet has been removed from his course after stating that Islam is the greatest threat to UK security during a training exercise.

The trainee officer at RAF Cranwell now faces investigation for his comments.

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My goodness. The RAF trainee office has stated his opinion about Islam. He was not given the opportunity to dilate upon his opinion. Instead, he was promptly silenced by being dismissed from his training course. Now he will ominously “face investigation” for his comments. Where did he come up which such an outlandish idea? What kind of sinister sites has he been reading online? Could one of those sites that have given him such a wrong idea about peaceful, tolerant, altogether splendid Islam have been jihadwatch.org or gellerreport.com?

The incident occurred shortly before Easter when the cadet, participating in a 24-week Modular Initial Officers Training programme at the Lincolnshire academy, was taking part in presentations alongside approximately 50 fellow students.

During a question-and-answer session focused on threats to national security, the young trainee offered his assessment, prompting his immediate suspension from the course that prepares the next generation of RAF officers.

Retired rear admiral Chris Parry has sharply criticised the RAF’s handling of the situation, demanding the cadet be allowed to return to training.

“If I’d asked that question and got that answer I would have also asked the cadet to expand on his thinking and got some critical thinking going rather than suspend him,” he said.

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Shouldn’t that be the point of the whole exercise, by asking RAF cadets what they thought were the most pressing problems in the U.K., and then to have them defend their positions, provoking further discussion with those who disagree?

Admiral Parry argued the distinction between Islam and Islamic extremism should have been explored through discussion rather than disciplinary action.

“Clearly Islamic extremism is the issue and not Islam, but how are young people expected to develop critical thinking around these complex issues if they are shut down in this way?” he added….

Why does our retired rear admiral say, with such bland self-assurance, that “clearly Islamic extremism is the issue and not Islam”? I think the RAF cadet meant what he said: Islam, and not something called Islamic extremism, is the greatest threat to the U.K. It is Rear Admiral (ret’d) Parry who should be asked to defend his own assertion. He might discover, as many now have, that “Islamism” is the name many give to Islam when its anti-Infidel tenets are taken to heart by Muslims and acted upon. The “Islamism” of Mohamed Atta is not a different ideology from orthodox Islam; Atta was willing to act on the commands in the Qur’an and to follow the example of Muhammad as described in the Hadith. Denouncing “Islamism” and absolving “Islam” when these words describe the same set of beliefs is misleading.

“We know that Islam is not a threat, rather it is extremist elements, and this appears to have been a missed opportunity to discuss that for fear of causing offence.”

No, Admiral Parry. Your suave assurance that “Islam is not a threat” cuts no ice with readers here. We beg to differ. We know better. And so, by now, do millions of indigenous Europeans who have slowly, even reluctantly, arrived at that realization, despite the best efforts of political and media elites to prevent us from awakening to that threat.

I wonder if Rear Admiral Parry would support the cadet if in articulating his own views before a committee investigating him, that cadet insisted that he meant what he said: not Islamism, but Islam, is the main threat today in the U.K.

Who decides that merely stating a negative opinion about Islam — that it is the “greatest threat” to the U.K. — should require an investigation?

Bring on the investigation of the intrepid RAF cadet who spoke his mind. Let him present his evidence that Islam is the greatest threat to the U.K., by citing a list of terrorist attacks, from the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby to the bombs in London busses and the Underground, and at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. Let him mention the Muslim grooming gangs that have ruined the lives of tens of thousands of British girls. Let the rates of criminality by Muslims and non-Muslims be held up for comparison, so that the vastly disproportionate Muslim contribution to the current crime wave can be understood. And then let others bring forth their countervailing evidence to undermine his observation — that is, if they can manage to collect any.