The cover/first page of Defence Regulation 18b

In a time of war, no nation wants to have supporters of their enemies wandering round unchecked doing who knows what. It’s common sense. You wouldn’t after all cook breakfast for a burglar you found in your house would you, nor kit them out with clothing or give them a bag to carry your stuff of with?

In the past when Britain was at war, because of its history as a trading nation, there were people here from enemy nations, as well as home grown supporters of Britain’s enemies. The solution, during World War II at least, to this problem was to intern both enemy aliens and British born supporters of the Nazi regime. It was a policy that worked. It kept the likes of Oswald Mosley and his crew out of the way until the war situation had improved so much that no risk would be incurred by letting him roam free. Britain also interned thousands of Germans, Austrians and Italians, including refugees from enemy nations, until it could be ascertained that these people could be proved were not likely to be a problem or were not spies or fifth columnists.

Mosley and other Nazi supporters, were interned under what became known as Defence Regulation 18b, and it makes me wonder whether the time has come again for an updated ’18b’ but one that specifies the Islamic community and no other, because that is where the bulk of the problems with regards community cohesion are coming from. A large number of the followers of Islam have declared war on us and therefore we have the right and the duty to defend ourselves and our nation. There is no need to write leglislation that is all encompassing, that pulls in all and everyone, when we are not dealing with Sikhs or Hindus or Jains or Jews blowing themselves up in crowded public places or flying off to fight violent religious wars overseas, but with Muslims.

It is Muslims that are causing the problems therefore Muslims should be the target of defensive legislation. It is merely a result of an obsession with ‘equality’ that legislation that should be aimed fairly and squarely against Islam and its deluded, violent followers, is extended to cover, Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Hindus and those opposed to the ideology of Islam for secular or patriotic reasons. An example of the law being too all encompassing comes from the ‘British values’ criteria that schools are now judged on. The inspectors from Ofsted seem just, if not more concerned about stuff that is not a problem than stuff that is a problem. For example: a Christian school that teaches about sin and its negative effect on individuals and society, or a Jewish school that concentrates on the intellectual Olympics that comprises debate about the Torah and Talmud, are going to get far more grief from Ofsted than would the management of the Muslim controlled ‘Headchopper Comprehensive School’.

Although I support equality, there is a danger that in trying to be fair to all, the State is giving the bad guys too many breaks.

Therefore Britain needs a policy of targeted internment of troublesome Muslims and their supporters. The Government should start with high profile irreitants like Anjem Choudhury and move on from there. Subjects of internment should include any Imam or management committee member who doesn’t agree to comprehensive 24/7 Audio/Video surveillance of their mosque or maddrassa or ‘Islamic Cultural Centre’. It should also include the families of those known to have left the UK for the purposes of Jihad. It may seem unfair to some, bundling up families of these criminals but far too often we have Muslim families who are not as divorced from jihadist savagery as they tell the police and the media. Support either in writing or in speech for groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Boko Haram, and Al Shabbab, should also bring with it the sanction of internment or prosecution for aiding a group that is an enemy of the UK. Of course some of the non-Muslim left wingers who bang on about ‘Palestine’ would be picked up by this last measure, but to many people’s eyes a few Lefties banged up for supporting foreign terror organisations wouldn’t be altogether a bad thing.

Over the years Britain has taken in as refugees hundreds of troublesome Muslim clerics, who haven’t, as the Government of John Major assumed, confined their activities to agitating overseas but have had a great influence on Muslims in the UK. Letting Islamic fascists ply their filthy trade without let or hinderance has been a grave mistake. For too long the UK has been a safe haven for Islamic extremism supporters and it’s time that this sancturary was denied to them.

We need to clean house and saying ‘damn the Human Right Act and interning troublesome Muslims until they either leave the UK, are freed by a court, or undertake to no longer be troublesome, may be one way of doing just that. Of course it goes without saying that such a law should have some method whereby those unjustly held could plea for their freedom and the legislation should have a ‘sunset clause’ and would need to be renewed by Parliament in open debate, as the Prevention of Terrorism Acts in the 1970’s were and did.

Maybe Defence Regulation 18b, or something very similar to it, is a piece of legislation whose time has come round again. It is a shame that such policies are needed but that is the hand that this generation of Britons has been dealt. Serious problems need serious tools to tackle them with and this time the enemy of Britain is not mostly safely across the channel, as it was in the last major conflict, but has managed to form a fifth column which has wormed its way into some most surprising places, where it beavers away seeking the demise of us and our nation.