UK, Germany, France Equally Threatened by Islamic Extremism - Britain First

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The three most populated Western European countries, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, are equally under threat from Islamic extremists, leader of the Britain First far-right political party Paul Golding told Sputnik on Tuesday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov — Earlier in the day, Aon, a UK-based risk management and reinsurance corporation, revealed in a report that France, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Estonia, Canada and Australia faced increased terror threats in 2015 as compared to 2014 while the UK terror threat level remained unchanged in 2015.

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"I think the threat from Islamic extremism is the same for all European countries, including France, Germany and the UK, because all these nations have large and growing Muslim populations that refuse to integrate," Golding said.

Aon stated that the main threat comes mostly from the citizens that leave to join the Islamic State, and then return home, as well as from those who are radicalized locally. The corporation adds that al-Qaeda also remains a threat.

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In 2015, Europe has seen a surge in Islamic extremism-related violence.

On January 7, a group of Islamist gunmen attacked the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo, a magazine notorious for publishing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, killing 12 people and injuring 11 others. Later in the week, another radicalized Muslim killed a police officer and four Jewish shoppers at a kosher food store in the French capital.

Later that month, two suspected ISIL fighters were killed in Belgium during a counterterrorism raid.

In February, an Islamist gunman opened fire at a free speech seminar in Copenhagen, in which a Charlie Hebdo cartoonists was participating. The gunman then attacked a synagogue. Two people died in the attacks.

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