The United Kingdom has allowed Muslim immigrants to "create mini societies within the British empire" that lead to Islamic radicalization and end in tragedies like Wednesday's bloodbath outside Parliament, Carl Higbie, a retired Navy SEAL, told Newsmax TV.
The British government, British society has become so accustomed and so engrained that this [terrorism] is a potential possibility . . . that this is just a part of society now," Higbie told host Bill Tucker on Thursday's "America Talks Live."
"It's a norm to have Islamic extremists come in, run people over, and stab people . . . They've allowed this mass migration of predominately Muslim people to come in, take over entire regions. Not hostilely, but move in and basically create mini societies within the British Empire.
"And as a result of that, it's allowed other people to be further influenced with Islamic extremist views. The British government has allowed this to happen, and if they deny that it has anything to do with their immigration policies, they are completely false and profoundly ignorant."
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Three people were killed, including a Utah tourist, when an ISIS-inspired, British-born terrorist drove an SUV into a crowd of tourists on Westminster Bridge then crashed into a gate outside Parliament building, where he fatally stabbed an unarmed police officer before being shot dead.
Higbie, president of the George Washington Leadership Foundation, said the problem is not just in the United Kingdom, but much of Europe.
"Keep in mind, especially the European side of this thing is that they want to go with agreement and accommodation," Higbie told Tucker. "This is not accommodation, this is submission to allow Sharia law to govern within your country.
"Sharia law is not consistent with the laws of a free society. You cannot have true freedom, you cannot have free quality under Sharia law. So, Sharia law is bad for the world. Let me put it that way."
Higbie — president of the George Washington Leadership Foundation, a South-Carolina-based non-profit that helps transform military veterans into leaders — is author of "Enemies Foreign and Domestic: A SEAL's Story," written with Brandon Caro and published by Post Hill Press.
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