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. . . . ”