(National-UAE) The West’s response to the war in Gaza has caused a degree of anger that will inevitably lead to a rise in radicalisation among young Muslims, the UK’s leading counter-extremism expert has warned.
Dame Sara Khan told the National she had never known such hostility from Muslims, outraged that the western democracies they have embraced appear to have taken the rule of law “with a pinch of salt” when it comes to the more than 48,000 Palestinians killed in the conflict.
Israel’s actions in Gaza, which countries such as the US, UK and Germany have failed to suppress, are “going to have a consequence,” she said.
She said middle-class Muslims, such as her banker and lawyer friends, were incensed at “how cheap Palestinian life seems to be” in the eyes of the West.
