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Maajid Nawaz, the founding chairman of Quilliam, a counter-extremism think tank, rebuked calls young Muslims were being radicalised online in their bedrooms as a “myth” and was “side-stepping the problem”. The LBC host claimed “lack of integration” within communities was making it “easier” for terrorist organisations to recruit young Muslims. According to a new study, a tenth of all Britain’s Islamist terrorists come from just five council wards in Birmingham.

GETTY•LBC Maajid Nawaz blamed Britain's "Muslim ghettos" for radical extremism

Those insulated communities end up producing people that do not understand the values of our country Maajid Nawaz

The 1,000-page analysis, obtained by The Sunday Times, showed segregated Muslim neighbourhoods were more likely to have a higher number of terror-related convictions. It revealed offences had doubled in the past five years, with the number of those convicted but previously unknown to the authorities rising sharply. Speaking on his radio show on Sunday, Nawaz echoed the report, as he claimed a “vast majority of terrorists are linked to networks within our communities”.

LBC The LBC host claimed "lack of integration" was making it "easier" for terrorist to recruit

“This failure to integrate means the community itself suffers,” he said. “Those areas where there is a concentrated Muslim ghetto that isn’t mixing with the rest of the country, those insulated communities end up producing people that do not understand the values of our country. “And it is, therefore, easier to recruit them to terrorist organisations.”

GETTY A new report showed a tenth of all Britain’s Islamist terrorists come from just five council wards

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