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Suella Braverman says the UK could become 'the first Islamist nation with nuclear weapons' (www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)

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Suella Braverman has suggested that the UK could become “the first Islamist nation with nuclear weapons”.

The former home secretary said Britain could “fall into the hands of Muslim fundamentalism” and become like Iran.

She made the incendiary comments in a speech to the right-wing Heritage Foundation think-tank in Washington.

Braverman said: “Vice-president JD Vance said at the National Conservatism conference, at which I also spoke in the summer, that the UK was going to be the first Islamist nation with nuclear weapons. I don’t think he was joking.

“Is it an impossibility that 20 years from now it will be the UK, not China or Russia, that will emerge as the greatest strategic threat to the USA?

“Born out of a broken relationship and weak leadership. What happens if the UK falls into the hands of Muslim fundamentalism, our legal system gets substituted for Sharia Law and our nuclear capabilities vest in a regime not too dissimilar to that of Iran today?

“Regardless of whether one thinks that is a realistic outcome, which I do not, should we not have the courage to ask these questions?”

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Islamic yes, Islamist I don't think so. That usually refers to a much more fundamentalist ideology. That said, Pakistan did test its first nukes under the dictatorship in the 80s, and while I don't know much about that period it does at a surface level look like it could probably be described as an Islamist period for Pakistan. So maybe there was an Islamist nuclear power and isn't anymore?

[–] A_A 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Whoops, you are right, i don't know much about pakistanis separation of politics and religion today ... I went with the word used in the title of the post without considering it's exact meaning(s), which are now :

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Islamist
Islamist (plural Islamists)
1- (now rare) A Muslim. [from 19th c.]
2- A scholastic Muslim who specializes in Muslim academics. [from 1910s]
3- A Muslim who espouses Islamic fundamentalist beliefs. [from 1980s]

interestingly, it should be easy to say that USA has now become a ~~Christianistic~~ Christianist country.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Oh, interesting, I didn't know about the earlier usages!