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So I was born in 1982, and when I was born in Luton, which is a town 30 miles north of London, there was one mosque. There's now 45. Wow. So I'd sat and watched the change in demographic and the effect that comes with open border, mass immigration. I'd seen the problems that Islam brought to the town. The more Islam, the less freedom. The attacks, the hostility, the violence, the rapes. I had a cousin who we can get onto. We're going to get onto grooming gangs. They call it grooming. It's rape jihad. It's young English girls being kidnapped by very large numbers of Muslim men. Passed around the entire community, switch from one community to another. They're being raped, tortured, murdered, even across the whole of the uk. But I saw this in Luton. I witnessed it, I experienced it. I. And Luton is a very diverse. One of the most diverse towns in. In Britain, in Europe, actually, one of the most. I've Earned people from every culture and every background. So I got to experience what works and what doesn't work. And growing up, we had the Islamic community and the non Islamic community. The divide lines in our town were never racial. There's never been racial problems. It was religious. When I went to school, you had the Muslim playground and the non Muslim playground. Now, we didn't create that because we all integrated and assimilated all the other groups, whether it be Saint Lucian, Jamaican, Bulgarian. My mother come to the UK as an Irish immigrant. We all just get on great. Yeah. But then there was this one section and at the time I didn't. When I was growing up as a kid, I didn't put it down to them being Muslim or Islam because there wasn't that much talk around it. They were Pakistani. 50 in the town's Pakistani. So they're Pakistani, they're from Kashmir. Kashmir. And they're just different. There's a whole different value system. They think differently, they treat women differently. Their views. What we think's good, they think's bad. What they think's bad, we think's good. So it's a total alien culture. It's like. And it. You can only describe it as mixing oil and water. That's not to say there's not some great Pakistani lads. There's not. I knew some great lads growing up, some wonderful human beings. I still have a lot of love for them. But per se doesn't work. So I watched all of that. I'd seen the rapes, I'd seen the. The terrorism. Luton was known. Named by the CIA as the epicenter of all terrorist activity for Europe. So Almajreddin, who are now a prescribed terrorist organization. But they weren't. Omar Bakri, Abu Hamzah. Some of the most famous terrorists in the world. Well, that organization's head office was on Biscuit Road in my town. Yeah. So that. So growing up, I remember it was the Beslem school massacre. After the Beslem school massacre, I remember standing there and it stopped me. And everyone. Everyone who's woke up, everyone who's opened their eyes and you know once you open your eyes, you can't close them. Yeah. Even if you wanna, you can't because you realize the fit. The danger that we're in the day. So I remember watching the Besom school massacre. And anyone who hasn't seen this, Chechnyan terrorists have took over a school. And then the parents. And this is coming again, mark my words, they're going to do it again. It's going to hit a UK school. It's going to hit a European school, probably a Jewish one. But they're going to do it. Yeah, they're going to take over a school, but they took over the school. And when they took over the school, the parents have come outside the school. And I remember as a young man, I was probably 19 or 20. I remember as a young man, I was watching this and I was seeing it happen. And then I realized it wasn't one man that took over this. It's a whole group of men. And then as the parents are outside, they start butchering and slaughtering the children inside the school. And the mums are on their knees and they're screaming and there's nothing they can do. And I remember just watching it, it was real. And I thought, what the hell is this? Like, what drives someone to do this? And it was a group which is 5. This isn't a psychopath. There's something else here. So I looked and I started looking at what had happened. A week later, I see a group of Pakistani Muslims in a chicken shop in Luton doing a video. There was a video online saying an attack like that would be justified in a UK school. And I was quite. I'm from Luton, was. Luton's a rough town. And I grew up and I elevated towards the football culture, which is young English men coming together on a football on a Saturday. And I looked at these men and thought, you're talking about a school in our country. Who the are you? Yeah. So then I went down the rabbit hole and excuse my French, I went down the rabbi. I thought, let me see who they are. That's when I realized Alma's reddened. So I started looking into terrorism, a jihad. And then I started understanding how they think and looking into how they think and understanding this organization are in my town. So then on this, this was going back to 2 fat. Then, then 2004, it was the first ever demonstration I'd organize and I made leaflets and I went around the town handing these leaflets out. And I called it ban the loot and Taliban because this same group was sending people to fight against our armed forces. Now when you go into our town center, you have to. You have to think about this. This is where you live. Yeah. When you go into our town center, they used to have paste tables set up outside Don Millers, which is a bakery every Saturday. And they're openly hordes of jihadists. And they're recruiting and they're. They're promoting so much hatred. They're Sending people on planes to fight against Britain and nothing stopping them. So I'm thinking you, how are they doing this? And I remember going down the week before and I stood in the town center, a police officer was there, I said, how are they doing this? And she said, it's his free speech. I said, let's see if this free speech next week. Yeah. So then the next week I got about 200 lads together and said, we're coming down to. We're coming. They're not. These terrorists are not taking over our town on Saturday. So, but I made the leaflets and in the leaflets and, and I've pulled these leaflets up for a presentation I give Oxford University. I went into the local library and I went back through history and I got the, got the front page of the newspaper. So because this leaflet is exactly what I'm saying now, I've never changed. And what I said in the leaflet is whites and blacks are being religiously and racially targeted by Muslim gangs. Muslims are using drugs as a weapon against our community. And they're getting our daughters and young underage children hooked on heroin and hooked on drugs to use in prostitution rings. That's what we now know as grooming. So I spoke about all these issues and what I asked in leaflet is if we know what shops they're using, we know who their gangs are. Why are the police not tackling this? Why? Because my cousin was 14, she woke up, she was in a house in the Muslim community, bearded men all raping her. She was 14 years old. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And the giant police. The police done nothing. I can remember the family meetings, the police didn't. And then. This is going to sound so far fetched, but we'll get into the details of what's going on across the whole of the uk and it's insane. This is the darkest stain on British history ever. When you hear what happened, and it's not just happened in my town, but I saw all of these experiences. I saw the terrorist attacks. I know children I grew up with have become lead figures in the terrorist organizations. I went, I used to hang around with one of the main ginger converts in our country. He was my mate. Yeah, I knew him growing up. He went to jail. We come out of jihadi, everyone's coming out of jailer jihadi, but all of it. So I've experienced all this, I see this in 2004, I make this leaflet and we all hit the town. The Muslims didn't turn up. The, the radicals didn't turn up because they knew 200 young men who were quite up for it are coming. So then we went there. But the full. And I stood on the town center steps and I read. And I've done this as my name. Stephen Lennon. Yeah, Stephen Yax Len. And I stood up and I read this leaflet out basically demanding the police act. Said you've got to act. They can't because there was literally every week someone's getting hurt in the town, whether it be women being raped or young men being beaten by Pakistani mobs and 20 men jumping one man and just attacks. That a level of a ferocity of violence that was just alien. It's just like, where's this come from? And when we look back now and the older generations look back, it was after the Gulf invasion, I think that was the radicalizing factor that really, boom, that jihad was born in Luton and these outside groups were coming in, terrorist organizations were coming in, setting up base in the UK across the UK And UK was used as a platform for these jihadis who were then sending people to fight against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. But the radicalization factor was spreading throughout our town. And I'm just watching it and. And living it. We're living it after September 11, that I showed this in my Oxford Union presentation. They put posters everywhere. We lived the magnificent 19. They had celebrations in the town. The college erupted into cheers. This is where we live. So. And I tried to explain because I get condemned by. Oh, I used to get condemned by so many. I say, well, this isn't where you live. I get this, but this is where I live. This is my home. We have to stand in the bank next to these people. We have to share the community space with these. These barbarians.