By Emmanuel Onwubiko

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Hurrying up from a visit to Oxford Circuit from my brief window shopping tour of the imposing Westfield Shopping Complex in Stratford, London, I chanced upon a free evening newspaper in the underground train station which attracted my  attention because of the masterfully crafted style the editorial team gave to the reportage on the events of the last few days in Germany with regards to Islamic terrorism.
Indeed, in the last couple of weeks of my very brief vacation in the United Kingdom, the Evening Standard and the (Free) Metro Newspaper have become my compulsive best friends together with my daily glass of Expresso coffee even as I have always made it a ritual to pick up the free copies from the trolleys in the train stations where they are generously displayed for commuters to pick at no cost.
The story of terror attacks in Europe’s most viable economy which is Germany has understandably enjoyed front page mention in most UK’s print media  even as the electronic media have also devoted greater chunk of their prime news broadcast to cover the different ramifications of these growing threats of terrorism particularly because these murderous activities were exported by trained terror gangsters who infiltrated Western Europe under the guise of seeking for shelters as asylum seekers from the collapsed nations of Iraq and Syria.
There is a remarkably increased presence of armed Metropolitan Police who keep vigil at strategic points although not in the menacingly predatory fashion that Nigerians living within the front lines of terror attacks and other less volatile parts go through on a daily basis from the police and other security forces.
Majority of these attackers in Germany  particularly and even in France and Belgium  have now been found to have pledged allegiance to the Islamic terror group known as Islamic State.
I’m actually fascinated that UK exited European Union after the last referendum which swept away Prime Minister David Cameron largely due to fears  by the English people that the decision by the German Chancellor, Ms Angela Merkel, and a few other European countries to throw their borders open weakened the treaty on free movement by European Union for only Europeans. It has also opened the floodgates for terrorists who masterfully  disguised as refugees to infiltrate Western  Europe and unleash mayhem and destructions of unquantifiable proportions.
The English voters were alarmed, too, by the terror attacks in France and Belgium associated with persons who hitherto were let into Europe because they claimed to be refugees from Syria and Iraq. Security near the border with France is at the highest level. I witnessed this on a visit on Sunday, July 24th, 2016 to a beach not too far from Canterbury around a place called Dover, near France.
The attacks in France and Belgium affected some British families. But again, whilst the United Kingdom voters through a slim majority opted to quit the European Union, Londoners voted to bring in the first ever Moslem-born immigrant Mayor, Sadiq Khan, to take over from Boris Johnson who spearheaded the Brexit campaigns and is now the External Affairs Secretary of the British people under the parliamentary leadership of Prime Minister Theresa May, the second ever female British Prime Minister in the last one hundred years. Theresa May has just visited Germany’s first ever Female Chancellor, Ms Angela Merkel.
Ironically, the effect of the emergence of this Moslem mayor I’m told includes the sudden growth of Islamism in London just as people who spoke with me confirmed that gigantic mosques have sprang up all over the major landmark areas of London and that the Moslems, such as the immigrant communities from Pakistan, and Somalia have now become so daring and bold as to now install their loud speakers outside their mosques for calls to prayers, which constitutes noise pollution to some neighbours. I saw one of these newly erected mosques in the high street of Tottenham in London and during their Friday prayers last weekend the entire neighbourhood was littered with all manner of people from Somalia and Pakistan. You would think–you were in Mogadishu if you had seen these cross section of Moslem worshippers.  I’m talking about who went about loudly and leisurely all over the place unmindful of the inconvenience they caused passers-by. I had to cross to the other side of the street just to avoid colliding with the huge crowd of Moslem immigrant worshippers just coming out of the mosque on this high street of London.
These sights and sounds made me conclude that if care isn’t taken, London may never be the same again unless something is done to maintain the peace and never let radical preachers to take hold of these new mosques spreading up all over the neighbourhoods where Moslem immigrants congregate. It was, indeed, from these London mosques that terror masterminds were radicalised by hate preachers. The Nigerian-born underwear bomber caught in the United States of America and serving a life sentence for attempted bombing of the Delta Airliner was radicalised in London whilst going to one of the most expensive universities where he was enrolled by his rich Nigerian elitist dad, Alhaji Abdul Murtallab who runs Nigeria’s first ever Islamic Bank. Several hate Islamic preachers who openly radicalised the youths have also been extradited to the USA and to Jordan.  Anyway, this is for another day. For now, I’m asking if the facts emerging from the terror attacks in Germany aren’t enough for Angela Merkel, who let them in on humanitarian grounds, to quit and allow other strict nationalists organise Germany and rid it of terrorists.
Angela Dorothea Kasner better known globally as Angela Merkel is 61 year old and a doctorate degree holder in Physics. She heads the Christian Democrats -a Conservative party that works in the Parliament with their Bavarian  sister political party known commonly as the CSU.
The highly educated Ms. Angela Merkel is the first ever female German Chancellor and the first to have won successive elections thrice and prior to the Europe’s largest post World War 2 refugees’ crisis which saw the floodgates of mass movements of people from some collapsed far distant nations like Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. She  was already planning to run for a historic fourth term in office by next year. These terror attacks have put a spanner in her tall dream of running for this phenomenal fourth tenure. For instance, the French Agency reporters (AP) aptly captured the political misfortunes for Angela Merkel from these terror attacks as signposting the end of the Merkel era in German politics.  The France-based agency reporters (AP) wrote as follows: “Four attacks in a week – three of them carried out by asylum seekers – have left Germans on the edge and Chancellor Merkel’s welcoming of refugees under renewed criticism.
*Onwubiko, Head of Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria writes via www.emmanuelonwubiko.com.