Monsters shielded by political correctness

PARSONS Green bomber Ahmed Hassan could not have signalled his hostility to our country more plainly if he had gone around wearing a sandwich-board proclaiming: ‘I am a terrorist.’

Yet from the moment the Iraqi arrived in Britain – unlawfully, in the back of a lorry from the notorious Calais ‘Jungle’ camp – the authorities ignored screamingly obvious signs of the threat he posed, choosing instead to lavish care and attention on him at taxpayers’ expense.

Within weeks, he told immigration officials he had been kidnapped and trained to kill by Islamic State.

At his sixth-form college in Surrey, he told a teacher it was his ‘duty to hate Britain’, while another caught him listening to jihadi songs. As if that weren’t enough, he was even caught making a donation to IS via an internet app. How much more evidence would the authorities have needed to kick him out of the UK? Instead they offered him a firstclass education and surrounded him with support workers and counsellors. They didn’t even tell his unsuspecting foster parents about his connection with IS.

Indeed, immigration officials, police and social workers appear from the outset to have put the interests of this teenage asylum seeker above those of the people they are paid to protect.

But then this has been a sobering week for illustrating just how deeply political correctness has taken root, to become a dangerous scourge of the modern age.

It began with the appalling revelation that as many as 1,000 girls – mostly white, and some as young as 11 – had been systematically abused by mainly Muslim grooming gangs in Telford, Shropshire.