France is rounding up the 'on the radar' jihadists. We should be doing the same thing. And now.

France has long been at the forefront of the multiculturalism issue. It's approach has largely been to try to integrate people into its communities and way of life by being tough on the Islamic policies that do not fit in with French beliefs and way of life. They banned the burka. Their schools are entirely secular, they have been much stronger than the UK on banning things like FGM, polygamy, child brides and the like.

But France's liberté which tends not to welcome CCTV or draconian surveillance measures is, for this reason, a softer touch for terrorism than we are in the UK. But it is only a matter of time before the terrorists get lucky in the UK. We are not immune to this threat.

In my opinion France has tried to do the right thing - to integrate people into its society instead of creating enclaves for incomers who don't agree with its laws, whereas we have turned a blind eye, for decades, to Muslim practises that are abhorrent to our beliefs.

Neither of us has - or will - see(n) the benefit of these approaches. The outcome, in the end will be exactly the same. Why? Because these people are not trying to achieve some sort of compromise, they are not trying to garner our sympathy or respect or to have us accept some of their religious beliefs. Their only goal is to force us to accept Sharia law and to worship - and live our lives - according to the Qu'ran.

But the same people who are now blaming the security forces for not having arrested the terrorists who were 'on their radar' are also the ones saying that we should not be taking draconian measures against 'peaceful people'.

You can't have it both ways. The current situation is one in which we need to find them and stop them. And by the way, there is absolutely no way we can negotiate with these people. The 'human beings' argument simply does not hold any kind of sway with these people. They are animals and they would kill you as soon as look at you if it furthered their cause.

We need to round them up and if they are not on our side, we need to get rid of them. Our civility will ensure that we do this by deporting them. One could argue that getting rid means just that, but we are not yet as evil as they are, so we'll give them the benefit of the doubt, probably in a way that we'll ultimately regret.

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