DUBLIN, Ireland (CNN) — At a recent debate over the battle for Islamic ideals in England, a British-born Muslim stood before the crowd and said Prophet Mohammed’s message to nonbelievers is: “I come to slaughter all of you.” “We are the Muslims,” said Omar Brooks, an extremist also known as Abu Izzadeen. “We drink the blood of the enemy, and we can face them anywhere. That is Islam and that is jihad.” Anjem Choudary, the public face of Islamist extremism in Britain, added that Muslims have no choice but to take the fight to the West. “What are Muslims supposed to do when they are being killed in the streets in Afghanistan and Baghdad and Palestine? Do they not have the same rights to defend themselves? In war, people die. People don’t make love; they kill each other,” he said. … “One day, the Sharia will be implemented in Britain. It’s a matter of time.”

The piece also quotes Muslims who calls such views “mental illness.” Others complain that traditional Muslim leaders are afraid to take on the fire-breathers. “Our scholars … are not coming out of their holes — their mosques and their holes — to engage with these people. They’re frightened of that,” one British Muslim complains. More here.