Ed West Ed West

Nobody will dare satirise the multiculturalism that allows Islamism to flourish

So, ‘Jihadi John’ is Mohammed Emwazi, a young Kuwaiti immigrant from Queen’s Park in north-west London, another first-rate product of the British education system.

Queen’s Park is one of those very mixed areas of London; the expensive Victorian properties are filled with people who 10 years ago might have lived in Notting Hill and 10 years before that Kensington. There are also lots of scary housing estates too.

It’s also part of the greatest Arabian Diaspora that extends out of Edgware Road and into the districts of Westminster and Brent; previous Jihadi John suspect Abdel Bary was an aspiring rapper from nearby Maida Vale who was last seen tweeting a picture of himself holding a head beside the caption ‘chillin’ with my homie or what’s left with him’. His father was considered too extreme by the Egyptians. The British authorities, with that almost touching northern European naivety that Arab governments find so infuriating, allowed him and his family to settle here.

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