The Manchester Arena terrorist attack was one of the worst Islamic terror attacks ever carried out on British soil. The only Islamic attack in the United Kingdom that took more lives was the 7/7 bombings of London’s transport system in 2005 which cost over fifty lives. 22 people, including many young people, died in the Manchester Arena attack which was carried out by a Muslim of refugee extraction called Salmi Abedi.

Now Abedi perished in the suicide attack at Manchester Arena, which as well as killing also caused 235 injuries of various degrees of severity, but his brother, Hashem Abedi was the bombers accomplice did not die and was put on trial in the UK. Hashem Abedi has been convicted of 22 murders along with attempted murder and explosives offences by a jury at London’s Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) after a relatively short deliberation period by the jury of about four hours.

Althugh Hashem denied having any part in the bomb plot, forensic evidence found on the remains of the bomb and in other places that Salmi and Abedi had frequented along with evidence as to Hashem’s activities prior to the bombing, showed this claim by Hashem to be a lie. The court was told that Salmi Abedi could not have carried out this attack on his own, Hashem played a key role as a terrorist ‘Quartermaster’, supplying necessary items for the construction of the bomb. He was just as guilty as the Islamic savage who set off the device and it is almost certain that we will see Hashem Abedi gaoled for at least 40 years for this or even being given a whole life tarriff. This is not one of those jihadists who are in any way reformable, if any indeed are? A person does not calmly and callously and knowing who and what the target for the bomb is going to be, get involved in anything like this unless they are so warped by the sick ideology that they adhere to that all morality goes right out of the window. If Britain still had a death penalty then I’ve little doubt that Hashem Abedi would be awaiting his turn to stand on the gallows. However, at the very least this savage is now off the streets, even though his incarceration will cost the UK taxpayer millions by the time he dies.

Speaking of costs. It should be noted that the Abedi family came to Britain as refugees from the Lybian regime of Gaddaffi. The generosity that was extended to this family by the British government has been repaid by the Abedi brothers not with gratitude but by murderous violence driven by a desire to harm non-Muslims. A refugee entry system that had been set up when World War II, its horrors and its subsequent waves of displaced persons, was still fresh in the memory, has been turned into one which permits and facilitates the entry of scum like the Abedi’s. The parents who were let in from Lybia produced two children who grew up to be mass murderers, which is not something we’ve seen from many of the other non-Muslim refugees who were given entry to Britain in the past. The deaths of 22 and the injury of many more is a heavy price to pay for a government or a civil servant to be able to feel virtuous by taking a generous view of international refugee law and allowing the Abedis to settle in the UK. This is what the lax refugee system that operates in Britain has cost at Manchester:

The explosive packed with screws and bolts for shrapnel detonated at the exact moment when thousands of men, women and children streamed out at the end of the concert shortly after 10.30pm on 22 May 2017.

Of the 22 casualties, 19 died at the scene and three more were treated by members of the public and the emergency services but later died. Police went on to identify nearly 1,000 victims of the attack, including 28 people who were very seriously injured, 111 others who were treated in hospital and 670 who have reported psychological trauma.

In my opinion this is far too high a price for Britons to have to pay for virtue signalling over ‘refugees’. There would have been no Manchester Arena attack had there been no Abedi’s allowed into Britain. If the government’s of the past had taken a much more restrictive and harsh attitude to asylum and refugee matters then 22 families would not be grieving today. Virtue signalling over ‘refugee’ matters is not a cost free activity and the attack on Manchester Arena highlights that. Those on the middle class left who weep copious tears for some military age Muslim male who claims to be an ‘oppressed refugee’ will, if they are not countered politically, end up bringing in many more individuals who will probably end up carrying out many more Islamist terror attacks. Of course it is only humane to help those displaced by conflict, but it should be done in such a way that does not bring people like the Abedi’s to the United Kingdom or compromises the security of Britons. Humanitarian aid should be given in the area of the conflict or the surrounding area. It’s not cost effective to bring people here and dangerous to our own people as well. All giving the Abedi’s asylum achieved was to create a lot of dead Britons and its long past time that those administering refugee entry and those groups campaigning for ‘more refugees’, like Citizens UK for example, took a long hard look at some of the jihadist monsters that they’ve helped to create and change their outlook.