After the Manchester synagogue attack, I began tracing two decades of Islamic terrorism in Britain – uncovering a disturbing pattern hidden in plain sight. This is not prejudice. It’s record-keeping – and a warning about policies putting us all at risk.

Manchester

I didn’t learn about the Manchester synagogue terrorist attack until I opened my phone after Yom Kippur had ended. I had also missed messages from my cousin, who had witnessed the event and been evacuated from her home by the police.

By 7:30 the following morning, I had already traced the terrorist to a street in Manchester, built his family tree, found the father’s Facebook page, and had seen the extremist support displayed there.

But this post is not about the Manchester attack specifically.

As I looked through the October 7 ‘celebratory’ posts shared by the terrorist’s father, I had a strong sense of déjà vu – and I was taken back to Ali Harbi Ali and the murder of the MP Sir David Amess.

A terrorist with parents born in a war-torn backwater. Extremist posts on the father’s timeline. Family statements insisting they were ‘shocked’ and had no idea where the radicalisation came from.

I started to wonder: How many of the Islamic terror attacks we’ve seen since 7/7 were carried out by someone who was either born overseas – or whose parents were?

This is what I found:

2000s

7 July 2005 – the 7/7 London bombings

Four suicide bombers targeted London’s transport network, killing 52 people and injuring hundreds.

• Shehzad Tanweer – born Bradford, parents from Pakistan
• Mohammad Sidique Khan – born Leeds, parents from Pakistan
• Germaine Lindsay – convert – born Jamaica
• Hasib Hussain – born Leeds, parents from Pakistan

21 July 2005 – the 7/7 copycats

A failed attempt to replicate the 7/7 attacks. Only the detonators exploded. All four principal bombers were born abroad:

• Muktar Saáid Ibrahim – born Eritrea
• Yasin Hassan Omar  – born Somalia – child of asylum seekers
• Ramzi Mohammed- born Somalia
• Hussain Osman / Hamdi Adus Isaac  – born Ethiopia

Additional conspirators (all foreign born):

• Manfo Kwaku Asiedu (Ghana), Adel Yahya (Ethiopia), Wahbi Mohammed (Ethiopia), Muhedin Ali (Ethiopia), Ismail Abdurahman (Somalia), Siraj Ali (Eritrea), Abdul Sherif (Ethiopia), Yeshi (Yeshshiemebet) Girma (Ethiopia), Muluemebet (Mulu) Girma (Ethiopia)

31 January 2007 attempted kidnapping and beheading of soldier

• Parviz Khan – born UK, parents from Pakistan

29 / 30 June 2007 – London / Glasgow car bombs

Car bombs failed to detonate in London; a jeep packed with explosives was later driven into Glasgow Airport.

• Bilal Talal Samad Abdullah – born UK, raised in Iraq, parents from Iraq
• Kafeel Ahmed – born India

22 May 2008 – failed Exeter restaurant bombing

Attempted bombing of a restaurant in Exeter.

• Mohamed Abdulaziz Rashid Saeed-Alim – UK  born convert (Nicky Reilly), radicalised online by al-Qaeda sympathisers abroad

2010s

14 May 2010 – stabbing of MP Stephen Timms

A female terrorist stabbed her local Member of Parliament.

Roshonara Choudhry – 21-year-old student – born in UK, parents from Bangladesh

22 May 2013 – murder of Lee Rigby

Lee Rigby, a fusilier in the British army, was murdered by two men on the streets of Woolwich, London. The terrorists tried, but failed, to decapitate him.

• Michael Adebolajo –  born in UK – convert, parents from Nigeria
• Michael Adebowale –  born in UK – convert, parents from Nigeria

5 December 2015 – Leytonstone Station attack

Terrorist, armed with a knife, who attacked tube passengers at Leytonstone station in London, and tried to behead one of them.

• Muhaydin Mire – born in Somalia

24 March 2016 – the murder of Asad Shah in Glasgow

Asad Shah was an Ahmadi, a minority sect rejected and often persecuted by most mainstream Muslim  groups. The terrorist said he killed him because he had ‘disrespected Islam’.

• Tanveer Ahmed- born in Pakistan

22 March 2017 – the Westminster Bridge Parliament attack

Five people died, and at least 50 people were injured after a terror attack near the Houses of Parliament.

• Khalid Masood – convert (born Adrian Elms) – born UK

22 May 2017  – Manchester Arena bombing

Suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert killed 22 and injured over 1,000.

• Salman Abedi – suicide bomber – born in UK – Libyan national and fought there, parents from Libya
• Hashem Abedi – bombers brother – assisted – born in UK – Libyan national and fought there, parents from Libya

3 June 2017 – London Bridge attack

Eight people were killed after terrorists ploughed a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before launching a knife attack.

• Khuram Shazad Butt – born in Pakistan
• Rachid Redouane – born in Morocco
• Youssef Zaghba – born in Morocco

25 August 2017 – Buckingham Palace sword attack

A terrorist attacked three police officers with a sword outside Buckingham Palace. The terrorist duped the jury, and was later convicted for planning other terror attacks.

• Mohiussunnath Chowdhury – born in UK, parents from Bangladesh

15 September 2017 – Parsons Green Tube bombing

A terrorist put a bomb on an underground train. It failed to detonate properly, but still managed to injure about 30 people.

• Ahmed Hassan – asylum seeker – born in Iraq

14 August 2018 – Westminster car ramming

A terrorist deliberately rammed a car into cyclists and pedestrians by the Houses of Parliament.

• Salih Khater – born in Sudan

31 December 2018 – Manchester Victoria station stabbings (New Years Eve)

Mohamud stabbed a 56-year-old man multiple times. Mohamud then proceeded to slash a 57-year-old woman across the face before stabbing her multiple times. A police officer was also stabbed during the arrest.

• Mahdi Mohamud – born in the Netherlands, parents from Somalia

29 November 2019 – Fishmongers Hall & London Bridge

Two University of Cambridge alumni were murdered at a rehabilitation event at Fishmongers’ Hall. The terrorist had previously been jailed for planning terror attacks.

• Usman Khan – born in UK, parents from Pakistan

2020s

9 January 2020 – attack on prison officers at HMP Whitemoor

Two prisoners carrying makeshift blades and wearing fake suicide belts attacked prison officers at HMP Whitemoor.

• Baz Hockton – converted and radicalised in HMP Whitemoor – born in UK
• Brusthom Ziamani – in jail for planning to behead a soldier – convert – born in UK, parents from Congo

2 February 2020 – Streatham stabbings

A terrorist wearing a hoax suicide device stabbed two people in Streatham High Street.

• Sudesh Amman – just released after serving time for terror offences – born UK, parents from Sri Lanka

20 June 2020 – Forbury Gardens stabbings

A terrorist attacked people in Forbury Gardens in Reading, Berkshire. Three men died from their wounds.

• Khairi Saadallah – asylum seeker – born in Libya

15 October 2021 – Murder of Sir David Amess MP

Sir David Amess MP was murdered during a constituency surgery in Leigh on Sea.

• Ali Harbi Ali – born UK, parents from Somalia

14 November 2021 – Liverpool Women’s Hospital

An explosive device carried by the passenger ignited inside a taxi outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital, killing him and injuring the driver.

• Emad Al Swealmeen – asylum seeker – born in Iraq

15 January 2022 – siege at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue

While it took place in Texas, this hostage siege was carried out by a British Muslim who had travelled to the US. The terrorist interrupted a morning service at a synagogue in Colleyville and was shot and killed after a 10-hour standoff with police.

• Malik Faisal Akram – born in UK, parents born in Pakistan

15 October 2023 – Hartlepool bladed weapon attack

Terrorist murdered a 70-year-old grandfather and attempted to murder a second man (the key target – a Muslim convert to Christianity).

• Ahmed Ali Alid – asylum seeker – born in Morocco

2 October 2025 – the Manchester Yom Kippur Synagogue attack

Two Jewish people were killed in a car-ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur.

• Jihad Al-Shamie – born in Syria

 

Two decades of bloodshed – and a pattern that no serious observer can ignore.

This is not prejudice – it is record-keeping

The names, dates, and convictions are all public. The pattern speaks for itself.

We allow extremists in from war-torn Libya, they blow up the Manchester Arena. From Somalia, they murder a sitting MP. From Syria, they murder Jews outside a synagogue.

These nations, and others like them, are sectarian backwaters full of repression, extremism, division and violence. Yet UK authorities do almost no due diligence before allowing hundreds of thousands to enter each year. It is a suicidal policy – born of false beliefs, left-wing idealism and wilful ignorance.

But that is not the whole story. We also let known Islamic terrorists out of jail – men who have already plotted Islamic terror attacks – and within weeks they have killed on our streets. Our schools have abandoned any sense of national pride or identity – leaving a vacuum – that allows some of the extremists we welcome to pass the hate they brought with them on to their children, here on British soil. And why don’t we push back? Because of failed ideas that give respect where it is neither earned nor due.

And as this continues, we pretend everything is fine. Our borders remain open, with record numbers crossing each year.

During this same period, there were just three deadly far-right attacks (Mohammed Saleem, Jo Cox, Makram Ali) and one of those was a foreign national who had been in the UK less than a week (Pavlo Lapshyn). Yet to ‘balance things up’ our authorities behave – supported by certain media outlets that cannot stop lying to us – as if the threats are equal.

Worse still, the government is now working to introduce a formal definition of ‘Islamophobia’ – something so dangerously misplaced that even writing what you have just read could, one day, be treated as hate speech. It is a back-door to the re-imposition of blasphemy law and a tool to silence those who speak out against suicidal policies.

This is a perfect storm that will only lead to further bloodshed.

It is time to start telling the truth.

 

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