Com­ment: Under-reported is the pro­found con­nec­tion between Islamism and orga­nized crime. There is an entire chap­ter in “Dol­lars for Ter­ror” by Richard Labeviere titled “Islamist Deal-Making and Orga­nized Crime.” Our vis­its with Daniel Hop­sicker have high­lighted this link, to an extent.

In fact, much of the income derived by groups like Al-Qaeda, the Tal­iban and other Islamist cadres comes from arms and drug sales.

A chill­ing arti­cle from the UK under­lines the extent to which Mus­lim gangs dom­i­nate the British under­world. Although they are described as not being reli­gious by mem­bers, one should bear in mind the eco­nomic sup­port that groups like this have, and the extent to which that influ­ence is ampli­fied by their alliance with Mus­lim Broth­er­hood subgroups.

NB: “Asian” in pop­u­lar British lex­i­con gen­er­ally refers to peo­ple from Pak­istan and India, not Chi­nese, Viet­namese, Thai, etc.

“How Mus­lims Took over the British Under­world” by Nick Fran­cis; The Sun [UK]; 2/15/2010.

In tra­di­tional Islamic head­gear, Asian ex-gang mem­ber Amir poses with his sword and issues the stark warn­ing: “Britain’s under­world belongs to the Muslims.”

The 21-year-old, whose organ­i­sa­tion turned over thou­sands of pounds a day from drug-dealing and credit card scams, claims a post-9/11 fear of ter­ror­ism has allowed Mus­lims to develop a stran­gle­hold on our crim­i­nal community.

Through Islam, he says, they have num­bers which can­not be matched, and rival gangs are being forced out by ruth­less Islamic crim­i­nals who only deal with each other.

They recruit black and white mem­bers in Britain’s jails, tempt­ing them to con­vert to Islam in exchange for a cushier life inside.

Once released, the con­verted cons have access to an entirely new net­work of Mus­lim crim­i­nal con­tacts — and are trusted because they pray to Allah.

Amir claims that Britain’s under­world will soon be com­pletely dom­i­nated by Islamic gangs — and he says the West’s para­noia over ter­ror­ism is to blame. “Peo­ple don’t f*** with us because they think we’re all in al-Qaeda,” he explains.

“Our sta­tus in the crim­i­nal hier­ar­chy changed lit­er­ally the day the Twin Tow­ers went down.

“From then, Asians have been asso­ci­ated with ter­ror­ism. Peo­ple, includ­ing other crim­i­nals, think if you’re Asian you’ll blow up a Tube train or bomb an aeroplane.

“In the past 20 years we’ve cap­i­talised on that. If we’re going to be thought of as extrem­ists, why not use that fear?

“The real­ity is that Asian gangs don’t give much of  [a] toss about reli­gion, but with Islam comes fear, and with fear comes power. . . . ”