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Originally Posted by DanaC
... It doesn't take a huge number of extremists, and it doesn't take a huge number of sympathetic mosques or community leaders to cause a lot of problems, about which the peaceful majority are unable to do very much.
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My impression is that it's only because
the English won't let them.
A grassroots unarmed anti-terrorism movement modeled on
similar anti-crime movements could significantly reduce the impact of terrorist attacks.
Unfortunately, the English mentality of a passive citizenry that leaves their personal safety to the government,
in the hands of professionals, has undermined such grassroots organization; so, there's nothing left to be adapted from anti-crime to anti-terrorism let alone incentive to start from scratch.
This also applies to Manchester which while it didn't deserve what happened and didn't want it to happen; nonetheless, was an enabler by just being English.
Now you know and knowing is half the battle. MI6 probably just shakes its head at MI5 and a docile citizenry that doesn't care to change it.