Posted on 11/30/2008 6:44:41 PM PST by cricket
[. . .]there is nevertheless a sense in Britain that this was nothing to do with us - a horrible event happening in a faraway place. . . .
Those who believe that Islamist terror can be halted by addressing grievances around the world are profoundly mistaken.
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Yesterday, Gordon Brown said . . .'Mumbai'. . .had raised 'huge questions' about how the world should address violent extremism.
Wrongly believing that it can use religious fundamentalists to counter terrorist recruitment and that it must at all costs avoid causing offence, it is failing to stop extremists spreading their propaganda, handling their demands with kid gloves and undermining genuine moderates among Britain's Muslims who have been left exposed, vulnerable and abandoned. The reason for such flawed policies is the false analysis on which they are based.
The Government and security establishment refuse to acknowledge that what we are facing is a religious war.
. . .they think that Islamist terrorism is driven by grievances which are basically the fault of the West. . . .you have only to look around the world or at the history of the past four decades and more to see the absurdity and ignorance of this view.
Look at Thailand,. . .currently convulsed by Islamist terrorism in the south with bombings, beheadings and the murder of Buddhists.
Look at the persecution of Christians in Nigeria. Look at the Islamist terrorism in the Philippines.
Look at the attacks variously upon New York, Bali, Istanbul, Jakarta, Sharm el Sheikh, Casablanca, Madrid, London and India. If we don't understand what we are fighting, we cannot defeat it. Mumbai is yet another wake-up call - to a Britain that is still in a trance of denial.
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I agree.
'Apply directly to forehead'
When I suggest to people that there is an increasing danger of nuclear weapons being placed in our cities and detonated by these maniacs, they just look at me like I’m out of my mind.
People are more concerned with how the market will do tomorrow or buying the latest gadget than worrying about the ongoing terrorist threat to our nation.
According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Pakistan has about 60 nuclear warheads, as of 2007:
http://thebulletin.metapress.com/content/k4q43h2104032426/?p=1a17a0f9e4e14fa48f55700d1e8e9e7d&pi=1
There is a link on this page to a pdf file of the relevant article.
Good observation, but reason won’t apply. One nuke goes off in anger and the world will freak.
That said, I also note how much life goes on in even the most extreme oppression.
Re-making 'males' into poltically correct' versions never a good idea.
Remember, not too long ago; a bar tender in Italy lamenting the loss of opportunity to use his 'skills' as he offered that the 'art of drinking' was lost; that few; and certainly fewer Americans; knew how to drink anymore. He had written a book about the 'art' (which I have; but cannot entirely appreciate as it is written, of course, in Italian/lol But did get his more salient points, nonetheless. . .)
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I am not so sure about that. If there was even one camera phone near a jury would call that excessive force. Our policemen are just as constrained as anyone else.
Read a report that ‘the policemen in India are unarmed or armed with bamboo sticks’ and that ‘gun permits in India are so difficult to obtain that the security guards at the hotels were unarmed.’ I think it is the ‘British’ way they inherited/ embrace today, of having unarmed policemen.
I don’t know if this applies to the policemen at the train station, but I bet it does. Were those guns loaded?
“You are in jeopardy of being labeled a bit over the top” — that is because people in denial resist with maximum strength having the Truth spoken into their denial.
People never accept damage to their ego unless there is a threat to damage more than their ego.
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