Source: Sky News
By Jon Craig, Chief Political Correspondent
By linking attacks to UK support for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he faces being accused of exploiting the Manchester atrocity.
Jeremy Corbyn has made a controversial return to election campaigning after the Manchester bomb attack with a speech blaming UK foreign policy for terrorism at home.
The Labour leader claims the so-called “war on terror” is not working and is promising a government led by him would change foreign policy so it fights rather than fuels terrorism.
But by choosing to talk about terrorism and linking it to UK support for wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria he has been accused by opponents of exploiting the Manchester atrocity.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said his comments are “outrageous”, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon called the speech “ill-judged” and Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron accused the Labour leader of making a political point.
Conservative security minister Ben Wallace told Sky News that “it’s not as crass as a ‘war on terror'”.
He said dangerous jihadist beliefs about Western values are decades old and “nothing to do with foreign policy”.
“That’s to do with a twisted and very dangerous idealogy that’s been given new impetus by technology,” he added.
Categories: Counter Terrorism, Terrorism, The Muslim Times, UK
I have a better idea, why not stop unnecessarily bombing, invading and occupying middle eastern countries ? stop overthrowing governments in that region and creating the conditions in which these groups arise and thrive then we wouldn’t need such draconian measures in the first place. This government and the previous governments policies are the reason the UK is a target for these maniacs, if anyone disagrees then please tell me why you never see the following headline “Switzerland hit by Islamic terrorism”. The government creates the conditions in which these groups arise and thrive and then further punish us by introducing laws which curtail freedom.The UK needs to stop pretending it’s still an empire and be more humble. What the west is guilty of is creating the condition from which the rise of isis has been made possible, ISIS is a direct product of the unnecessary Iraq war, without the war it most certainly would not exist. There’s no question that if you bomb the infrastructure out of another country, produce a power vacuum and annihilate all the vested interests that held that social order together, then other more meaningful social orders are going to try and fill that vacuum. The idea that you can destroy the socio-political organisation of a country and then replace it with your own idealised and artificial construct has to be one of the dumbest and most arrogant ideas of our time. That, or just a Machiavellian calculation to serve certain Western needs/interests. I can’t decide which.
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Finally a western leader has the courage to admit the root cause of terrorism in the west
Jeremy Corbyn is right to point out that UK’s participation in wars in Muslim countries like Afganistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria has played a crucial role in terrorist attacks in his country.
His opposition to UK involvement in overseas conflicts goes back decades and has put him at odds not just with Conservatives, but also many in his own party.
I wish other western leaders also had the courage to own their own mistakes and stop meddling in the developing countries.