Society is “greedy on the straw” in their views for the youth drawn into extremism through smartphones, terrorist laws have warned.
Jonathan Hall Casey, speaking further from the 20th anniversary of the July 7 attacks, said that the current extremist recruitment methods are “one million miles” from those used before 2005.
suicide bomber Mohammad Sidik Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanveer, 22, Haseeb Hussain, 18, and 19 -year -old German Lindsay closed bombs on three tube trains and a bus, killing 52 people in the worst terrorist atrocities on British soil.
Ringalders and recruitors appeared to be a pillar of the Khan community, helping local youths to take away from crime and drugs to help in establishing gym in the basement of the mosque, but was actually a radical.
Mr. Hall told the PA news agency that the widespread availability of smartphones has changed Fancifulness Since then.
“The major difference from the era of 7/7 is the smartphone era,” said Mr. Hall.
“It has changed the landscape. It has led a separate model of bigotry.
“With 7/7, there were indications that Mohammad Sidik Khan was preparing people, a young club, he went and rafted together.
“Those types of outsiders, in individual, in group grooming activities, they feel one million miles away from the online world of bigotry.
“I don’t know about any intelligent person who wants to debate the current wave of many young people involved in terrorism, or excessive violence, where it is not ideological, it is not related to the Internet and is related to the ready availability of smartphones.
“There is a very live debate about morality, validity and practicalities, the best response.
“But we are currently straw and struggle, at this time, as a society, what is the correct response, to work.
“Nobody will allow them in their right mind Children To allow a stranger in your bedroom, but what we have done with the phone. ,
Mr. Hall said the attacks highlighted the fatal threat to homegron terrorists with “clear clarity”.
“What 7/7 did, is it clearly that our fellow citizens are ready to kill us.
“This very indefinite insight is as true today as it came back, except that you will now have to bring British citizens who are inspired by extreme right -wing ideology, which are to join the major Islamist threat.
“But it was a real kicker from 7/7. I think it really brought this idea of homegron danger home.”
Commander Dominic Murphy said that on July 7 was a “one seminal moment” for anti-terrorism policing, leading to a series of changes that continued after five terrorist attacks in the UK in 2017.
He said that while the Islamic groups are still the main threat to the UK, right -wing terrorism is a growing problem, and is worried that young people are being drawn into extremism.
In 2024, 39 out of 248 people arrested for crimes of terrorism were under 17 years of age, while children within the age of 11 to the age of 11 created the largest proportion of people who were referred to to stop the extraism scheme (2,729 out of 6,884).
“Islamist remains our main threat. We look at a growing right -wing terrorist problem,” said Mr. Murphy.
“We are also looking at the young people involved in that right -wing threat, which is deeply related to us.
“But of course, we also see people who do not have a clear or certain ideology.
“We can not clearly say that they are an Islamic terrorist, we cannot clearly say that they describe a right -wing ideology.
“Nevertheless, they are consuming large amounts of violent media online, and they can have a mixed or vague ideology – that means, of course, we still need to be worried about the danger for the public.
“It is also very diverse since 2017 and I think the online environment and the world environment adds a full new layer of challenge to the danger that we encounter.”