Scary Assessment from "Londonistan"

From BBC:

MI5 knows of 30 terror plots threatening the UK and is keeping 1,600 individuals under surveillance, the security service's head has said.

Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller warned the threat was "serious" and "growing".

She said future attacks could be chemical or nuclear and that many of the plots were linked to al-Qaeda.

Prime Minister Tony Blair said the terrorist threat was "very real" and spoke of "poisonous propaganda" warping the minds of young people.

In the U.S., the threat from radical Islam is largely from outside the country; in the UK and the rest of Europe, it is increasingly home-grown. Muslims constitute almost 15% of the roughly 720 million people living in Europe. Of course, not all Muslims are radical fanatics. Most estimates I've read or heard place the number of radicals at 5-15% of the total Muslim population. And this may be too high yet. However, just calculating with the low number would mean that there are roughly 2.5 million radical Muslims in Europe. While having fanatical views does not make one a terrorist, the likelihood that radical Muslims either agree with or defend terrorist activities is not inconsiderable.

Combine this with the fact that the Muslim birth rate in Europe outpaces that of other Europeans by more than 2:1, and you can see why Blair would stress that the terror threat in the UK is likely to last for a generation.