Farage predicts more calls for interning terror suspects if politicians don’t act

Nigel Farage warned Sunday of increasing calls for “interning thousands of suspects” if U.K. politicians don’t take action to fight terrorism.

“Unless people see some really concrete action is going to be taken than I think the calls for interning thousands of suspects will grow louder and louder,” Farage, the former U.K. Independence Party leader, told host Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“People are beginning to say what are our leaders actually going to do? Just expressing sorrow, just talking and using words like solidarity simply isn’t enough,” Farage added.

{mosads}Farage cited a “change of attitude” related to terror attacks.

“I think we’re a little bit less shocked than we used to be. We are getting used to this, which is very bad news indeed,” he said.

The lawmaker called for a crackdown on radicalization in state-run schools and prisons, and on the internet, as well as adding further pressure on mosques to denounce those who “preach hate.”

“I want to hear that in our state-run schools and prisons, which we are in charge of, we are absolutely going to make sure that radicalization doesn’t take place. I want to hear that in the mosques in this country, that we will actually be unafraid to kick out of this country people who go in there and preach hate because frankly we’ve been too politically correct to do any of that,” he told Bartiromo.

“I also want to hear, which I heard a bit of from the prime minister, that we do want to try if we possibly can to stop some of this being there freely on the internet. That is an absolute minimum.”

The Brexit advocate praised British Prime Minister Theresa May for blaming this weekend’s London attacks on “Islamic terrorism,” although she had labeled it “Islamist extremism.”

“[May has] actually used the phrase, Islamic terrorism. That in itself may well be a first because many of our politicians have been in denial as Hillary [Clinton] was on this point,” Farage said.

His remarks come after two recent terror-related attacks in the U.K. that left dozens dead and many more injured.

Three attackers killed seven people and injured 48 others on Saturday after driving a vehicle into pedestrians on the London Bridge and stabbing people in London’s Borough Market, officials said. The three attackers were also killed. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks, but reports of the incident say the attackers yelled “Allah.”

Last month, a suicide attacker detonated a bomb at the end of Ariana Grande’s concert in Manchester, England, killing 22 and injuring dozens of others. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for that attack.