Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain,What I Saw Inside and Why I Left by Ed Hussain
THIS IS HEARSAY,but I have heard it said that the Islamist recruitment gambit,or chat-up line,seldom
varies.You are a young British Muslim,in London or Leeds,and you are towelling yourself down after a
table tennis tournament or a paintball fest at your community centre,and another young British Muslim
wanders up and says,in the accent of Leeds or London:“Heard about the Caliphate,mate?” “You what?”
“The Caliphate.The Khili-fah.” The caliphate,as every Islamist is bitterly aware,was dissolved by Kemal
Ataturk on March 3,1924.It is the Islamists’ intention to restore the sultan as the head of a nation state,a
nation state of science-fictional power,which will (if I’ve got this right) wage jihad on all the world.
