"This is Khan's Londonistan," Ms. Hopkins added, using a disparaging term referring to the city's Muslim population.
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Some books on nationalist subjects were on sale including "The people who want to eradicate Myanmar", a paperback that includes the chapter "Londonistan: swallowed by Islam".
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Trump retweeted a tweet by the right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins who called London "stab city" and said "this is Khan's Londonistan," a phrase used to describe the city's failure to tackle Muslim extremists.
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On Saturday, Trump retweeted a tweet by the right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins who called London "stab city" and said "this is Khan's Londonistan," a phrase used to describe the city's failure to tackle Islamist extremists.
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The French observed that a number of Muslim radicals from London had connections to these bombings. Around 1995, the French intelligence had coined the term "Londonistan" for the city of London. The perception of "Londonistan" is powered by the strong foothold of Islamic radical fundamentalism in the region. It is believed that the "Londonistan" environment radicalises British Muslim youth (involving the strife in identity politics, such as the perception of racism and decadence in British culture) and is ineffective in combating the Islamic radical entities.
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"Londonistan" is a sobriquet referring to the British capital of London and the growing Muslim population of late-20th- and early-21st-century London. The word is a portmanteau of the UK's capital and the Persian suffix -stan, meaning "land" used by several countries in South and Central Asia. The term has been used in a number of publications, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Weekly Standard, and in the 2006 book Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within.
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Home Secretary Charles Clarke described it as an attempt by the BNP to "cynically exploit the current tragic events in London to further their spread of hatred". Some media outside the UK complained that successive British governments had been unduly tolerant towards radical Islamist militants, so long as they were involved in activities outside the UK. Britain's alleged reluctance to extradite or prosecute terrorist suspects resulted in London being dubbed Londonistan by the columnist Melanie Phillips.Philips, Melanie. Londonistan. Encounter Books, 2006, p.
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The project has been opposed by author Ralph Giordano, right-wingers, , then local district's deputy mayor, has criticized the project saying that "We don't want to build a Turkish ghetto in Ehrenfeld. I know about Londonistan and I don't want that here." Markus Wiener of the far-right activist group Pro Cologne,. expressed his fear that the Cologne mosque will empower the Muslim population too much.
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Several Post-Echo journalists became authors. Stephen Pile wrote The Book of Heroic Failures, Melanie Phillips the controversial Londonistan, Jean Ritchie a book about murderess Myra Hindley, and Ashley Walton The Duke of Hazard about Prince Philip. Anthony Holden became a biographer and also wrote a book about professional poker called Big Deal. John Marquis wrote Blood and Fire, about the famous murder of Sir Harry Oakes, and Papa Doc, about the Haitian dictator François Duvalier.
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Hopkins is anti-Islam. After the 2016 Nice truck attack, Hopkins stated "Islam disgusts me", declaring the statement was "entirely rational" and not Islamophobic. She is in favour of a burqa ban and has labelled Islamic culture as homophobic. In March 2017, Hopkins gave a speech at a David Horowitz Freedom Center event, in which she criticised Muslims, stating that a "Muslim mafia" controlled areas of Britain, and describing London Mayor Sadiq Khan as the "Muslim mayor of Londonistan".
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Accessed 12 June 2019. which in turn led to further appearances on radio and television as a political commentator, usually to give views on American politics and/or the Middle East, and sometimes on wider UK and American culture. Gould is a vocal critic of what she sees as increasing anti- Americanism and antisemitism in Britain,Phyllis Chesler, Interviews With Extraordinary People. Carol Gould: Pro-American, Pro-Israeli, Who Lives In Londonistan For Comic Relief, PJ Media, 15 October 2007.
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18 July 2009. The festival's chief executive, Richard Moore, compared Loach's tactics to blackmail, stating that "we will not participate in a boycott against the State of Israel, just as we would not contemplate boycotting films from China or other nations involved in difficult long-standing historical disputes". Australian lawmaker Michael Danby also criticised Loach's tactics stating that "Israelis and Australians have always had a lot in common, including contempt for the irritating British penchant for claiming cultural superiority. Melbourne is a very different place to Londonistan".
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Gatestone subsequently corrected the article and apologized for the error, before removing it entirely from its website. In 2017, Gatestone falsely claimed that 500 churches closed and 423 new mosques opened in London since 2001, and argued that London was being islamized and turning into "Londonistan". According to Snopes, Gatestone used "shoddy research and cherry-picked data." Specifically, Gatestone only counted churches that closed but not churches that opened; data for the period 2005-2012 alone show that 700 new churches opened in London.
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Shaun Bailey, the Conservative candidate for the 2020 London mayoral election, wrote a pamphlet in 2005 for the Centre for Policy Studies complaining that immigrants to the UK being allowed to "bring their culture, their country and any problems they might have with them" and observing non-Christian festivals has turned Britain into a "crime-ridden cesspool" and "robs Britain of its community". In September 2018, he shared a tweet referring to Labour's incumbent Mayor of London Sadiq Khan as "mad mullah Khan of Londonistan".
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According to Kepel, jihadi terrorism is caused by fundamentalist Islam, an ideology which clashes with the values of Western democracies. In 2017, Kepel criticized Olivier Roy's assertion that jihadi terrorism is only loosely connected to Islamic fundamentalism as Roy neither speaks Arabic nor looks into the Salafi doctrine behind the jihadism. Kepel also referred to London as "Londonistan": "[the United Kingdom] gave shelter to radical Islamist leaders from around the world as a sort of insurance policy against jihadi terrorism. But you know, when you go for dinner with the devil...".
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Ramda claimed that he did not know Ait Ali Belkacem; he has also denied knowing the other bomber, Boualem Bensaid. Ramda was detained in the HSSU high security unit of Belmarsh prison, which he has compared to Guantanamo. France requested the extradition of Ramda from the United Kingdom; Ramda successfully fought extradition until 2005. The refusal of British authorities to extradite Ramda was a point of contention between France and the UK, with many in France and elsewhere alleging that the British government was deliberately lenient to Islamist terrorists operating outside of the UK in order to buy peace in the UK (the alleged "Londonistan" policy).
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The term itself is based on a newsletter published in the 1970s by the Comité européen de coordination des associations d'amitié avec le monde Arabe, a Euro-Arab friendship committee., English translation Bat Ye'or's Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis was the first print publication in the Eurabia genre, which has since grown to a number of titles, including Melanie Phillips' Londonistan, Oriana Fallaci's The Force of Reason, and Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept. The term is often used by the writers Oriana Fallaci, Mark Steyn and several web sites, many of them affiliated with the counterjihad movement.including Gates of Vienna, Paul Beliën's Brussels Journal, Front Page Magazine, Richard Landes's Eurabia article, Fjordman's The Eurabia Code article and his Defeating Eurabia compilation.
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Ali, A. (2011) Sri Lanka and Chindia: Geo- political balancing acts before and after the civil war. Asian Profile, 39 (2). pp. 191-201. Ali, A. (2011) The Sri Lankan ethnic morass and China-India geopolitical manoeuvres. Economic and Political Weekly, 46 (34). pp. 39-45. Ali, A. (2010) Assimilation, Integration or Convivencia: The Dilemma of Diaspora Muslims from “Eurabia” to “Londonistan”, from “Lakembanon” to Sri Lanka. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 30 (2). pp. 183-198. Ali, A. (2009) Kattankudy in Eastern Sri Lanka: A Mullah-Merchant Urban Complex Caught between Islamist Factionalism and Ethno-Nationalisms. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 29 (2). pp. 183-194. Ali, A. (2008) Globalization, discontent and Islam: Thesis, antithesis and synthesis? Islam and the Modern Age, 38 (2). pp. 37-54.
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According to Omar Nasiri: > The mid- to late 1990s were the years when Britain's capital earned the > sobriquet of "Londonistan," a title provided by French officials infuriated > at the growing presence of Islamist radicals in London and the failure of > British authorities to do anything about it. [...] Raids in France and > Belgium had produced phone and fax numbers linked to the United Kingdom, and > names of suspects were passed on. Some French officials believe that if more > had been done by Britain at the time, the network behind the summer of 1995 > bombings might have been broken up and the attacks prevented. The bombings and attempted bombings, mostly in the French capital of Paris, in the summer and autumn of 1995 by Armed Islamic Group (GIA), killed eight people and injured more than 100.
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The Saved Sect operated from 2005 but was banned in 2006. The extent of the phenomenon was illustrated during the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy of 2006, when Al Ghurabaa, successor organisation to the disbanded Al-Muhajiroun, called Muslims to "Kill those who insult the Prophet Muhammad", resulting in extensive protests in London. Following the 2005 terror attacks, the phenomenon of Islamism within the resident Muslim population in Britain receive wider interest. An early publication was Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within (2006). Undercover Mosque aired in 2007 (with a 2008 sequel). Islam4UK led by Anjem Choudary (a British Pakistani born in the UK 1967) had been active from 2009. It has also been banned under the Terrorism Act 2000 on 14 January 2010. Since 2006, the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) has been under scrutiny as fostering Islamist politics among Bangladeshi immigrants.
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In The Guardian Tariq Ali and Robert Fisk in The Independent, echoing earlier comments by George Galloway in parliament, claimed that the Iraq War was the cause of the attacks, though both also ran opinion pages and letters responding that such claims were too oversimplified, and the general mood of the press was that Britain was always a terrorist target and at most the war made Britain a more prominent target. Richard Littlejohn on 9 July used his column in the Daily Mail to attack politicians in an article titled "Hello bombers...and welcome to Londonistan". Littlejohn attacked Ken Livingstone ("throughout his career he has given the impression that he has never met a terrorist he doesn't like") and Cherie Blair ("will [she] extend to him the same sympathy and understanding that she lavishes on Palestinian suicide bombers"), while calling for the Human Rights Act to be scrapped and extremist mosques shut down. The American Fox News network was criticised for its response to the news.
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