Victor Davis Hanson sketches an outline of what to expect in the months ahead: more of the same.
The jihadists expect that Westerners will slink out of the Middle East, allowing fascist fundamentalists to gain control of half the world’s oil and thus buy enough weapons to blackmail their way back to the caliphate.
Destroying Israel, killing Christians in Africa, running Westerners out of the Middle East, Pakistan, Indonesia, or Bali, all that is mere relish. In Europe, the goal for the unhinged is the creation of another al Andalus; for the more calculating it is enough intimidation and terror to carve out zones of Muslim sanctuary, where millions can live parasite-like, within the largess of Western society, but without its bothersome liberal agenda of freedom and equality, in hopes of implanting the universal law of sharia.
So here we are. Even though the killers profess revenge equally for Afghanistan (the so- called �right� war), they expect Westerners to scream “Iraq.”
Even though such bombings are predicated on infiltration, careful stealthy reconnaissance, and long sojourns within London, expect cries of anguish and worrying about the stereotyping of Middle Eastern males.
Look for the same scripted crocodile tears and “concern” from the Middle East’s illegitimate leaders, even as much of the Islamic Street takes a secret delight in the daring of the jihadists, and the governments sense relief that the target was Westerners and not themselves.
Anticipate Western leaders condemning the terrorists in the same breadth as they call for “eliminating poverty” and “bringing them to justice – as if the jihadists and their patrons are mere wayward and impoverished felons.
In the short term, Bush and Blair will appear as islands in the storm amid an angry and anguished public. But as 7/7 fades, as did 9/11, expect them to become even more unpopular, as the voices of appeasement assure us that if they just go away, maybe so will the terrorists.
It is our task, each of us according to our station, to speak the truth to all these falsehoods, and remember that we did not inherit a wonderful civilization just to lose it to the Dark Ages.
I’m hoping dubya has a small local nuke warmed up for each one of these maniacal hell holes.
Or maybe we can just export our Gay militants to tame the inner girl in these fascist swine.
monday, july 11, 2005
BBC: “Misguided Criminals”
BBC world affairs editor John Simpson appeals to Britons to refrain from getting angry, and uncorks a fragrant new euphemism for Islamic terrorists: �misguided criminals.� (Hat tip: JohninLondon.)
Now that the bombs have exploded, and thousands of newspaper pages and entire days of air time have been devoted to the horror of it all, and to the poor, decent people who are dead and missing, and to the misguided criminals responsible, perhaps we can stand back from it all and catch our breath.
LGF
The socialists’ mantra: Do not be angry:either submit or die, suckers. However, if you embrace socialism, we can then strike a bargain with the Islamist murderers; leave us alone & we will leave you alone, aka co-habitation with the Devil and the “misguided criminals”. Now, catch your breath. All in favour, say: arrrghhhh……
The real enemy of the western world is leftists, with their sliding scale of moral judgements. Their only consistency is their unexamined but well-earned self-loathing, a suicidal impulse which they project outwards. Somehow, to them, our freedom and prosperity and justice is an ongoing crime against humanity, and the barbaric actions and the tyranical behaviour of others is a mere offshoot of that singular crime that is the western world.
The sort of people who are capable of looking at the 20th century and emerging with the conclusion that western democracies — such as America and Great Britain — are what’s wrong with the world are a danger not just to the west but to the future of the world. There can be no dialogue with such people. The only proper response is vigilance.
McLellan: Cdns need to be prepared
TORONTO (CP) – The country’s public safety minister says Canadians need to be better prepared to handle the psychological fallout of a terrorist attack like the one that struck London last week. Full Story
Ottawa seeks border fairness
TORONTO (CP) – Ottawa wants to ensure that Canadians and others entering the country are treated fairly. Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan says she wants feedback from various groups, including ethnic communities.
Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Annie got-your-guns is now a pacemaker; hands up, all those who voted Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
I trust Fannie Annie will ensure that 80-year old Icelandic, Japanese, black South African and Christian Lebanese women are treated exactly the same as twenty-something Muslim males (whatever colour: white, brown, black, yellow).
No discrimination on the basis of intelligence–in both senses–can be allowed.
Mark
Ottawa
Discrimination on the basis of intelligeance: keep intelligeant people out, and continue to supply the dummies for cheap labour/votes.
This government knows its just a matter of time that we will be the victims of attack and yet all they can do is tell us to be on our guard. How sick is this? We have 50 terrorist cells in Canada and nothing can be done until it’s too late. When we are hit it will be the government of Canada that we should hold responsible for not rounding the SOBs up immediately. They should all be deported along with their sympathizers. PMPM is an idiot, and Bush and Blair had better get the guts to do something in their own backyards. We cannot live under these threats forever………..
There is no backing off the pressure.
Withdrawl from Iraq or backing off anywhere will have Al Qaeda dancing a victory dance on Al Jezera TV, declaring the West are cowards.
All those demanding a pull-out must be willing to sign a contract of engagement with Al Qaeda, in the event Al Qaeda decides to intensify bombing rather than suddenly becoming peacenicks.
Whaaat? no takers? 73s TG
wretchard said…
Like every model attempting to explain the complex world, Harris’ paradigm has its uses and limits. I don’t imagine that it explains everything or predicts everything. But at base, he is describing a broad antipathy by one civilization toward others — I will not say “another” mindful of how Middle Eastern Christians, the Eastern Orthodox and the Hindus were regarded — and its consequences. The Jihad has consequences, has had consequences, will have consequences. This is datum. What will we do about it?
Whether blood feud or not, grand plan for conquest or not is not terribly important. Either case implies that we must either proceed with the collision or persuade a religion with a billion adherents to give up the game of chicken. Either that or put the pedal to the metal.
I am not convinced this can be done by making more apologies for the ‘Crusades’, granting radical Islamists politically protected status. I am not even convinced it can achieved by capturing Osama Bin Laden and all his lieutenants. At some point the ideological engine that drives this antipathy towards the the non-Muslim must be turned off. They have defined the game as “us versus them” and as long as we are stuck with those terms we must live, or perhaps I should say die, from its implications.
http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com
“us versus them”
Take the battle to them; or not to take the battle to them? To be, or not to be? as Hamlet says.
What is your decision? Either choice has consequences. Die in your bed safely, an old man? Or die in battle?
The Muslims have always been at war with the infidels; it is the essence of their monotheistic religion; to wit, there is no other god but allah.
Their tool is terror/murder.Fight back with their methods? Yes. This is being done now by the USA, Australia, Britain and others, covertly in Afghanistan & etc.;overtly in Iraq. The Muslims attack mainly civilians; the West does not. They are attacking our weakness. We must destroy their imams who generate the evil, murderous message of Islam. Death of the imams’ message is their weakness. That is how to turn off their antipathy to the non-Muslim.
The left liberal regime of AdScam Martin, notwithstanding what McLellan says/does, is defeatist/willing to appease/to die on their knees.
I note that the police in the UK have conducted a number of arrests – apparently based on early leads from forensic evidence.
Presumably, those arrested are unlikely to be Mormons…