The cruel whip of Jihad flays London.
The Jihad has hit democracy again, this time bombing London trains and transport. An occupied double-decker bus was blasted apart. In all, at least forty innocents are dead and hundreds are injured. (*)
Britain now faces a choice. It can fight back with tougher measures on immigration, refugees, Iraqi insurgents, Iranian nuclear development, and the international Jihad, or it can surrender to the maruaders who have thrown the shining city of London into a massacre of blood and chaos.
(Image source: Instapunk (†))
As thinkers such as Bat Ye’or have noted, Europe was already teetering on the edge of becoming a fiefdom of Islam, of becoming “Eurabia.” (‡) They are achieving this when they bomb free countries. They want to sow disorder, panic, and distrust. Theirs is the toolkit of fear. They want to create an environment in which pitiless villains thrive, such as Zarqawi (the guttersnipe head-chopper) and Bin Laden (the robed coward who directs others to commit mass murder-suicides).
America will stand shoulder to shoulder with Britain and Europe. Ultimately, however, no one can save Britain or Europe except the people of Britain and the people of Europe.
Part of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s statement reads:
It is particularly barbaric that this has happened on a day when people are meeting to try to help the problems of poverty in Africa, and the long term problems of climate change and the environment. Just as it is reasonably clear that this is a terrorist attack, or a series of terrorist attacks, it is also reasonably clear that it is designed and aimed to coincide with the opening of the G8. There will be time to talk later about this.
It is important however that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world. Whatever they do, it is our determination that they will never succeed in destroying what we hold dear in this country and in other civilised nations throughout the world.
Do not waste time trying to figure out the “meaning” of the attacks. It really does not matter. The only solution to terrorism is to kill off so many terrorists that the rest give up. The forces of freedom have killed many terrorists since 9/11, and a number of our finest citizens and their families have paid a dear price to do so. Today’s attack on London is not so large as to kill thousands, as happened on 9/11. That is a sign of progress.
Now we must continue to forge ahead, ignoring the hysterical cries of the cut-and-run lobby, and smash the Jihad utterly.
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July 7th, 2005 at 13:41
“As thinkers such as Bat Ye’or have noted, Europe was already teetering on the edge of becoming
a fiefdom of Islam, of becoming “Eurabia.” ”
My heart goes out to the victims in London. I wonder if this latest barbarity– on top of the Madrid bombings and the barbaric murders
of Theo van Gogh and Pim Fortuyn in Holland– will finally knock some sense into the heads of the bureaucrats in France, Germany, the Netherlands,
Norway and Sweden who’ve been so insistent on importing millions of unemployable, already radicalized young Muslims into their countries
to fill “labor needs.” In Sweden, you can’t even say anything remotely critical of the hordes of Muslim newcomers w/o serving jail time, while the Muslim radicals in Stockholm are allowed to openly advocate for the overthrow of Sweden’s millennia-old society. How suicidally fucking stupid is that?!!
Yes, 90+% of the immigrants from Algeria, Turkey, Morocco et al. who go to Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam will be law-abiding decent citizens, but the
minority that obviously *isn’t* is large enough to cause serious trouble and offset any economic contributions the group might make.
Rather than bringing in over *6 million* Muslim North Africans into its borders, maybe the French officials could get a clue and instead
invite in more immigrants from non-Muslim countries like India, Brazil, China, the Philippines, Russia and Vietnam into France. Likewise, rather than stupidly importing over 4 million Turks into Germany that the German government spends billions every year fruitlessly trying to educate and keep out of the prison system (not to mention the anti-terrorism bill), maybe Germany ought to invite in more hard-working professionals from the Ukraine, India, China, Russia, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Same for the Netherlands with its ever-teeming millions of Moroccans– look to India, Russia and the Philippines to help restock your labor pool.
HELLO! EARTH TO CONTINENTAL EUROPE! You’re obviously not going to assimilate millions of young, radical Muslims. As much as we in the USA might deep down fantasize about seeing you turned into some 3rd world Eurabian shithole, if your countries go Muslim, you make our job of fighting terrorism 100 times more difficult and bankrupt us that much faster. Use your collective brains– whatever’s left of them– and retool your immigration policies to focus on non-Muslim sources of immigrants. Not too difficult with a dollop of common sense.
July 7th, 2005 at 14:04
The terrorists sure are clever. What smart people to hurt and kill men, women, and even CHILDREN in the recent London bomb blasts. Now, world citizens will surely say, “Okay, we give up, come control our lives with your ideologies.” Right? The problem with the leadership at al-Qaeda is that they haven’t figured out that people have no love for killers. Their point of view will only attract the very young and impressionable or the very old and desperate. They miss the largest demographic- law abiding citizens who want peace. If it’s the masses a group wants to affect, do something absolutely worthwhile and positive with the resources. Win hearts. The world may be talking about al-Qaeda , but it’s not in love with it and the goods it’s selling. Without winning hearts, MommyCool.com notes the change al-Qaeda hopes for will always be shallow.
July 14th, 2005 at 01:02
Yes, 90+% of the immigrants from Algeria, Turkey, Morocco et al. who go to Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam will be law-abiding decent citizens, but the
minority that obviously *isn’t* is large enough to cause serious trouble and offset any economic contributions the group might make.
Rather than bringing in over *6 million* Muslim North Africans into its borders, maybe the French officials could get a clue and instead
It’s terrible!
July 24th, 2005 at 01:48
“Britain now faces a choice. It can fight back with tougher measures on immigration, refugees, Iraqi insurgents, Iranian nuclear development, and the international Jihad, or it can surrender to the maruaders who have thrown the shining city of London into a massacre of blood and chaos.”
This is the fallacy of false alternatives. It is also known as the black/white fallacy, the either/or fallacy, and the bogus dilemma.
Here is another you make: “The only solution to terrorism is to kill off so many terrorists that the rest give up.”
Defining the fallacy: “…ignoring alternatives and complexities and thus implying that the question can be settled more easily than is the case. A black or white argument, one form, ignores differences of degree, and presents only the extremes as alternatives (“He is either a hero or a villain.”) Applied to alternative courses of action, this fallacy can be called a false dilemma: “Either we must take up arms against our oppressor or we must say farewell to all the liberties which we hold dear.” Might there not be another alternative?” (Eileen Dombrowski)