July 27, 2005
Religion Of Piece
Islam is da bomb!
Here's a little bit of lovin', courtesy of your neighborhood Imam:
Remember, while teaching extremism in the madrasas, remind young future martyrs - when making an improvised explosive device, the shrapnel should point outward, never inward. This photo and others of the carnage in London can be found here - I guess the debris and twisted wreckage is what is meant by "religion of peace". Or pieces.
With the US and UK engaged in worthwhile operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, we wonder if Islamists will take the wrong lesson from British response to the London bombings. After 9/11, the United States retaliated against Islamist terrorism with a crushing, disproportionate response - our grievous loss of 3,000 friends and countrymen was a heavy burden, but the toppling of two heinous, corrupt governments has been a worthy reprisal and something to give terrorists pause before striking the United States again. But the UK is involved in both locations already - what can Britain do besides crack down internally on native radicalized Muslim extremists? Where does Britain take the battle? Syria? Iran?
The failure to do more than arrest those responsible for the London bombing and their compatriots may seem to provide a profitable risk/reward for terrorists seeking to sponsor terrorism in the West. Fearful of a potent America stewarded by a President even his detractors admit isn't looking for an excuse to attack terrorists, just a place, Britain may seem the best way to exact a political cost and a body count in order to wedge Europe and America apart. Attacking the United States will antagonize the one power able to strike around the globe instantly. Attacking the British attacks America's strongest ally (along with the Australians) but doesn't carry the same risk of grabbing the American tiger by the tail. If the terrorists see the British response to these attacks as merely custodial, will Britain unwittingly send the wrong signal? What more can Britain do to exact a price to the international peddlers of terror to take the cost of doing death's business up a notch?
Britain is right to take the steps they are taking, and even more - former PM John Major has for openly spoken of deporting Muslims who "spit hate" and advocate violence, and we applaud him for taking those words of murder at face value. But Major's words are just the first tired stretches of a populace waking to the true nature of what lurks in their midst.
Until Major's words are not newsworthy, merely perfunctory, we fear London will be seen as the most attractive Western place to ply the terrorist's trade...
Posted by MEC2 at July 27, 2005 08:09 PM | TrackBack