New Newsweek article: London’s armchair Taliban – Jihad chic comes to London.
Talib Jan is a terror to his neighbors. He prowls the streets as a one-man, self-appointed morality patrol. He castigates young Muslim couples he sees holding hands in public, and he badgers acquaintances for shaping their beards into what he disapprovingly calls a “French cut” that frames the mouth. His diatribes can be frightening. Several young men told me they were afraid Jan had friends who could create problems for them or their relatives in Afghanistan or Pakistan. Some feared they might be disowned if Jan got word to their families about their “immoral” living in London….
As for the cops, Jan says he’s careful to break no laws and claims he’s never had problems with the police. They seem to regard him as a deeply religious man, he says, or at least as a harmless eccentric.
