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England is 'cesspit' breeding Islamists, says Soyinka
James Meikle
London
Guardian
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
England is a "cesspit" and breeding ground for fundamentalist
Muslims, the Nobel laureate and political activist Wole Soyinka
has said in an interview in which he also accused Britain of
allowing the existence of "indoctrination schools".
His extraordinary attack on what he views as Britain's part
in fuelling Islamist terrorism was published on the US news
and opinion website The Daily Beast. It was coupled with his
assertion that the 1989 fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini against
Salman Rushdie meant that the assumption of power over life
and death had passed "to every inconsequential Muslim
in the world".
Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel prize for literature
in 1986, made his claims in response to a question about his
homeland of Nigeria being added to the watchlist of countries
deemed to be incubating terrorists, after the failed attempts
of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to bring an airliner down over
the US on Christmas Day.
"That was an irrational, knee-jerk reaction by the Americans,"
the writer said. "The man did not get radicalised in Nigeria.
It happened in England, where he went to university.
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