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Bad news for bigots:

MI5 has concluded that there is no easy way to identify those who become involved in terrorism in Britain, according to a classified internal research document on radicalisation seen by the Guardian

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The security service also plays down the importance of radical extremist clerics, saying their influence in radicalising British terrorists has moved into the background in recent years.

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Those involved in British terrorism are not unintelligent or gullible, and nor are they more likely to be well-educated; their educational achievement ranges from total lack of qualifications to degree-level education.

As RickB also points out, however, there is one thing that links terrorist in the eyes of MI5…

[T]hey are almost all employed in low-grade jobs.

What? Poverty and shitty, unfulfilling employment should take some of the blame? Say it ain’t so. It’s the capitalist miracle we’re talking about here, isn’t it? Rising tides float all boats, don’t they? Free markets never made anyone bad, did they? Who knew MI5 would turn out to be a nest of goddamn pinkos.

I, for one, am now looking forward to counter-terrorism police kicking down the doors of call centres. I wait with anticipation the Policy Exchange investigation into how working in care homes is a fast track to radicalisation. What a day it will be when Gordon Brown and his ‘flexible labour markets’ are carted to off to Guantanamo Bay.