Forty British universities are now breeding grounds for Islamic terrorism as hardline Muslim groups peddle hate on campus

England's universities have become a breeding ground for Islamic extremism and terrorist recruitment. Islamic groups have specifically targeted British universities which have large numbers of Muslim students in order to peddle a message of hate. Islamic students are even engaging in terrorism or related activities while members of university societies. Islamic terrorists who have attended English universities include Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, the Stockholm suicide bomber who had a BS in sports therapy from the University of Luton, now the University of Bedfordshire. The Detroit underpants bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, studied mechanical engineering at University College London between 2005 and 2008. Two of the fanatics convicted of the transatlantic liquid bomb plot – ringleader Abdulla Ahmed Ali and Assad Sarwar – attended City and Brunel Universities respectively. Ten of the 11 Pakistani nationals seized on suspicion of plotting an atrocity in the North-West in 2009 had student visas. The ringleader of this plot – Abid Naseer – was a computer studies student at Liverpool John Moores University.