CTV;
GLASGOW, Scotland — Witnesses have told the British news media that a motorist tried to ram a Cherokee Jeep in flames into the main terminal building of Glasgow airport today.
The British Broadcasting Corp. says witnesses described an SUV driving at full speed toward the terminal building with flames pouring out from the car.
The BBC says the airport was evacuated and all flights suspended.
SKY News television says another witness reported that the car was stopped by security barriers and police tackled a man who fled from the car.
As noted, this item is derived from third hand media sources, so it may turn out to be just an accident.
BBC has more.
Update The incident is now being considered a terrorist attack. (Fox News)
More details are coming out and it’s thick with read-between-the-lines fodder;
One of them is in critical condition from severe burns and detained in the hospital. There was a “suspect device” found on him, and as a result the hospital had to be partially evacuated. Police were asked whether the device was a “suicide belt” but declined to answer beyond saying the device was “removed and brought to a safe place.”
The other suspect is in police custody.
The SUV used in the attack is still at the airport and still deemed very unstable. Police will not be able to examine it until the specialists give them the high sign. Until then, the airport is considered unstable. The vehicle contained materials that were flammable and that continues to be the continuing concern—police are not saying there are chemical components. As a result of the instability, there are still passengers stuck on the tarmac because it is deemed to be safer to keep them where they are at the moment than to move them.
Warwick , “The idea that terrorism’s root cause is poverty is soundly demolished by the facts.’
ET didn’t say anything about poverty being a root cause. Chretien said that.
Oh, for heaven’s sake, warwick – I haven’t anywhere said that poverty is the ‘root cause’ of terrorism. That’s nonsense – both your assertion that I said it – and that poverty ‘is’ a cause.
I agree that sociology is crap – but that area has nothing to do with my analysis.
‘Socioeconomic’ isn’t a marxist or sociological or whatever term. It has nothing to do with any ideology. It simply means what it says – the systemic rules of the society pertaining to the economic activities of that society. Every single society on this planet – from the hunting/gathering to the industrial – operates in such a manner. a socioeconomic manner.
The ‘root cause’ of Islamic fascism is a tribal political system operating in an industrial economy within a population in the multimillions. That has nothing to do with poverty; and everything to do with the fact that an industrial economy is a growth economy; and that the majority of the population must have the authority to make decisions in this economy.
I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t make such grievously false interpretations of my analyses.
As for national IQ- as postulated by our resident racist – there’s no such thing. You can’t relate a non-biological variable with a biological variable and say that the one causes the other. The outline of a political area on the map has nothing to do with the biological characteristics of a population.
You state that ‘those with no food suffer’. Well, the tribes of Africa, N. America etc, before colonization, did not suffer from lack of food or poor nutrition. And most certainly didn’t indulge in fatty processed foods.
Teaching submission and hatred is not a biological action but an intellectual action. We are not merely rational beings, we are emotional beings – and teaching young children that it is emotionally disastrous to question and dissent, will result in submissive adults. But – that has nothing to do with IQ.
Again – I’ve never said that Muslims are violent because they are poor – therefore, please don’t inform me that I did.
nomdeblog wrote “Joe, democratic capitalism is stronger simply because it does not pretend to have fixed answers like Islamofascism does or like communism did.”
Except that it does not address the Eternal question for which people are seeking answers. Many Muslims look upon our democratic capitalism with envy probably even more look upon it with disdain. Materialism is an empty philosophy that draws the greedy and the selfish. However a great many people reject greedy selfish philosophy and seek a higher, more noble cause. eg St Francis of Assisi. In that higher nobler cause there can be none higher than God’s cause.
The Muslim looks at what is written in his holy book the Quran and sees laid out for him a neat path that he can follow in pursuit of this higher cause. Following the rules and the rituals soon become boring and an even more strident form is sought. Eventually the idealist is drawn to a murderous suicide as the ultimate calling of the most devout Muslim. That many of the terrorists are well-off, mature and well educated men should come as no surprise. They have attained fulfillment materially and are seeking that higher cause. They have lived long enough to know that dietary rules and rules about hygene are not capable of holding their attention so they seek an ever higher stature in the religion. Eventually, some sooner than others, they are drawn to martyrdom Islamic style. Which is what we face today.
I hope that you and I can agree that we need to shun any kind of theocracy which I call utopianism in a religious guise. However we still need to address the eternal question. Am I so shallow that I think that if I have a house and a car and money in the bank I am a complete person? Or is there something greater and more noble to which I can apply myself. How can I help improve the world in which I live? Many become involved in politics for this very reason. Some become ever more educated. Some give vast sums of money to causes they believe in. I personally seek to serve my God by proclaiming His Salvation and helping those who are in need. In so doing I have seen lives turned around in some of the worse slums of Kenya, Brazil, the Philippines and even some of the native reserves here in Canada.
I will sum up with a quote from one of my favourite authors St Paul who wrote in his letter to the Ephesians “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms”.
That being the case let’s go into battle fully armed and not with smug academic credentials, or pride in our posessions, or the piffling belief that if we just show them our way they are bound to see the superiority of it and accept it without hesitation. We need to attack with a belief greater than their belief. We need to demonstrate a faith greater than their faith, and above all else we must treat them with love.
Joe, your ending this long thread with a quote from Ephesus is a good idea. I was there last year, saw where Mary lived her final days and was shocked that the chapel had a Koran in it and that my Muslim guide knew more about St Paul than I did.
Ephesus was a very large cosmopolitan city 2000 years ago. It hosted people from many cultures. Diversity seemed to work then. It can work now. I agree that your quote from Paul is still relevant.