Sunday, August 13, 2006
Has the World Finally Awoken to the True Threat of Islam?
The bomb plot to blow 10 aircraft out of the air over the Atlantic Ocean from the UK to the US this past week may have been the tipping point in the world's response to Islam and Islamic terrorism. Usually, when one of these conspiracies is uncovered, security is ramped up for a short period, speeches are made about how this particular plot was uncovered, backs are slapped, Muslims shout about being persecuted, and in a week or so the world forgets what Islamic terror is still plotting to do and moves on until the next plot is found out - or succeeds.
This time, however, the world may have reached that point when someone points to their head and says, "I have had enough of this" and puts their foot down to end it, whatever the problem is. The problem here is Islamic terrorism - and when the Muslims in the UK complained in speeches and letters that they are being abused again, British leaders finally reacted and told them to shut up. Even The Guardian, that disgusting leftwing rag which usually supports Muslims, told them to shut up and sit down.
Check out this round-up of events from England - and see how we finally may have reached the "enough of this shit" point with Islam.
First, the former head of the Metropolitan Police, John Stevens, told Muslims to drop dead in so many words:
Face up to your problem, Muslims told
How long before the denunciations of Lord Stevens' remarks appear?
However, this is more bracing in many ways - The Guardian takes Muslims to the woodshed:
These ludicrous lies about the West and Islam
Bravo!
And now even the Independent in London, independent only in that it chooses how far to stick its tongue up Muslim asses, finally has "had enough."
Backlash over Muslims' letter to Blair
Quite a nice round-up, we have to say.
Maybe the world finally has had enough of Muslims. Perhaps there is still a chance to defeat this perverted cult once and for all.
The bomb plot to blow 10 aircraft out of the air over the Atlantic Ocean from the UK to the US this past week may have been the tipping point in the world's response to Islam and Islamic terrorism. Usually, when one of these conspiracies is uncovered, security is ramped up for a short period, speeches are made about how this particular plot was uncovered, backs are slapped, Muslims shout about being persecuted, and in a week or so the world forgets what Islamic terror is still plotting to do and moves on until the next plot is found out - or succeeds.
This time, however, the world may have reached that point when someone points to their head and says, "I have had enough of this" and puts their foot down to end it, whatever the problem is. The problem here is Islamic terrorism - and when the Muslims in the UK complained in speeches and letters that they are being abused again, British leaders finally reacted and told them to shut up. Even The Guardian, that disgusting leftwing rag which usually supports Muslims, told them to shut up and sit down.
Check out this round-up of events from England - and see how we finally may have reached the "enough of this shit" point with Islam.
First, the former head of the Metropolitan Police, John Stevens, told Muslims to drop dead in so many words:
Face up to your problem, Muslims told
LONDON'S most influential former police chief has rounded on Britain's Muslims, blaming them for the terrorist networks in the country.
"When will the Muslim community in this country accept an absolute, undeniable, total truth: that Islamic terrorism is their problem?" wrote John Stevens, former commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, in a Sunday newspaper.
In an inflammatory opinion column, he called on Muslims to "stop the denial, endless fudging and constant wailing that somehow it is everyone else's problem and, if Islamic terrorism exists at all, they are somehow the main victims".
Lord Stevens, whose continuing responsibilities in Britain include the inquiry into Princess Diana's death, also defended "racial profiling" at airports and other security hotspots, saying resources were being wasted on searching everybody out of a sense of fairness or delicacy.
"I'm a white, 62-year-old, suit-wearing ex-cop - I fly often, but do I really fit the profile of a suicide bomber?" Lord Stevens, who was commissioner of the Metropolitan Police until last year, wrote in the News of the World.
How long before the denunciations of Lord Stevens' remarks appear?
However, this is more bracing in many ways - The Guardian takes Muslims to the woodshed:
These ludicrous lies about the West and Islam
The first Islamist terrorist plot against New York's World Trade Centre was carried out on 26 February 1993 with a car bomb under one of the twin towers. It killed six people but failed in its aim of bringing the whole building down. To achieve that, another plot was hatched.
Meanwhile, British and American foreign policy was focused not on the Islamic world, but on the unstable transition of former communist countries to democracy. Twice during the Nineties, Nato launched military interventions in the Balkans, both aimed at protecting Muslim populations in Bosnia and Kosovo. What Middle East policy there was focused on diplomatic efforts, led by President Clinton, to negotiate lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
This was hardly a Western war against Islam. Britain and America spent much of the Nineties trying to prevent conflicts or to resolve them. At worst, as shamefully in Rwanda, they simply ignored them. They were transparently not running a conspiracy to trample the Muslim faithful underfoot. The people who depicted it that way were a tiny minority telling lies to justify murder.
But things have changed. The argument that terrorism is, in fact, a response to Western actions overseas has gained currency. It was voiced most recently on Saturday in an open letter by a number of influential British Muslim leaders to Tony Blair. The Prime Minister's policy in the Middle East, they said, puts British lives at risk. The implication is that the young Britons who last week were accused of plotting to blow up passenger planes in mid-air would have been less susceptible to al-Qaeda recruitment had Britain not fought wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Policy should be changed, they said, to avoid giving ideological 'ammunition to extremists'.
There is indeed a plausible argument that military action in recent years has made Britain less, not more, secure. In particular, the conduct of the war in Iraq, regardless of the virtues of removing Saddam Hussein from office, has been riddled with error. The absence of weapons of mass destruction, removal of which was the premise for war, has undermined trust in the Prime Minister. Meanwhile, engagement in Iraq has made it harder to secure victory in Afghanistan, where the anti-terror justification for war was rock solid.
But even within the bleakest possible analysis of Mr Blair's foreign policy, it is still simply not true that the West is waging war on Islam. Just as it is not true that the CIA was really behind the 11 September attacks or any other arrant conspiratorial nonsense that enjoys widespread credence in the Middle East and beyond. It is also a logical and moral absurdity to imply, as some critics of British policy have done, that mass murder is somehow less atrocious when it is motivated by an elaborate narrative of political grievance.
If young British Muslims are alienated, that is sad and their anger should be addressed. But anyone whose alienation leads them to want to kill indiscriminately has crossed a line into psychopathic criminality. Policy cannot be dictated by the need to placate such people.
British Muslim leaders are entitled, along with everybody else, to raise questions about the conduct and consequences of Mr Blair's foreign policy. But they have a more immediate responsibility to promote the truth: that Britain is not the aggressor in a war against Islam; that no such war exists; that there is no glory in murder dressed as martyrdom and that terrorism is never excused by bogus accounts of historical victimisation.
Bravo!
And now even the Independent in London, independent only in that it chooses how far to stick its tongue up Muslim asses, finally has "had enough."
Backlash over Muslims' letter to Blair
Muslim leaders will today face Government demands to take tougher steps to root our extremists in their midst. The demand follows a furious reaction by ministers to an open letter signed by Muslim organisations and politicians protesting that Tony Blair's stance on Iraq and the Middle East provided "ammunition" to terrorists.
Ruth Kelly, the Secretary of State for Communities, will today hold talks with prominent Muslims. The talks have been hastily arranged since the alleged transatlantic bomb plot was exposed. A spokesman said she would "call for greater action to tackle terrorism". She also wanted to "hear what more the Government should do to support them".
Ms Kelly will stress that communities of all ethnic backgrounds and faiths were potential victims and that terrorists could only be defeated by national unity.
Relations between Ministers and Muslim leaders have soured after their open letter called for a shift in foreign policy "to show the world we value the lives of civilians wherever they live and whatever their religion". John Reid, Home Secretary, retorted that foreign policy could never be dictated by terrorists.
"I'm not going to question the motives of anyone who has signed this letter," he told BBC News 24. "But I think it is a dreadful misjudgement if we believe the foreign policy of this country should be shaped in part, or in whole, under the threat of terrorist activity if we do not have a foreign policy with which the terrorists happen to agree."
Quite a nice round-up, we have to say.
Maybe the world finally has had enough of Muslims. Perhaps there is still a chance to defeat this perverted cult once and for all.
