Posted on 06/03/2017 5:50:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
AT LEAST 80 victims were murdered in Kabul on Wednesday morning when a suspected car bomb blew up in a diplomatic area of the Afghan capital. As many as 400 people were wounded, most of them civilians.
In Baghdad late Monday night, 27 people were killed when ISIS detonated two car bombs in busy commercial districts. One of the bombs exploded outside a popular ice cream shop, engulfing the building in a massive fireball and leaving the scene strewn with blood and severed limbs.
In Egypt last Friday, a bus filled with Coptic Christians on their way to pray at a nearby monastery was stopped by Islamic State gunmen. They forced the passengers off, then ordered them to recite the Shahada, the Muslim profession of faith. When the Christians refused, the gunmen opened fire, murdering 28 men, women, and children.
In the southern Philippines one day earlier, Islamist killers rampaged through Marawi, beheading the police chief, torching buildings, and abducting a Catholic priest and 10 worshippers from the local cathedral.
It's been only a week and a half since the savagery at Manchester Arena, and already that atrocity is old news. The global terror wave continues unabated. So far this year, more than 510 terror episodes have been reported worldwide.
Plainly, the perpetrators of terrorism have not been deterred. And why would they be, given all the things we do to encourage them?
We encourage terrorism when we funnel money to regimes that pay for the recruitment and arming of extremists. That is what the United States and its allies did when they agreed, as part of the nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration, to unfreeze tens of billions of dollars' worth of Iranian assets. Iran is the world's foremost state sponsor of terror. Besides its own lethal Quds Force, it funds the Hezbollah terror network and Shiite death squads in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Last year the United States secretly airlifted $400 million in cash to Tehran just as four American hostages were released — a payment that emitted more than a whiff of ransom. No wonder Iran brashly asserts that funding for its homicidal proxies will continue.
We encourage terrorism when we lavish foreign aid on the Palestinian Authority, which uses the money to pay handsome bounties to terrorists convicted of deadly attacks on Israelis. In 2016, those payments constituted more than 7 percent of the Palestinian Authority budget. Yet that budget continues to be heavily underwritten by foreign aid from the United States and other Western nations.
We encourage terrorism in other ways, too.
The forces of terror are reinforced when terrorists are lionized in the media and treated as legitimate public-policy interlocutors. For years, terrorists have been hailed as celebrities, fawned over by journalists, and deferentially received in the halls of power.
Examples could fill a dozen columns. The United Nations invited Yasser Arafat, gun on hip, to address the General Assembly. The New York Times published — on Sept. 11, 2001, no less — a flattering profile of former Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers. The Metropolitan Opera staged "The Death of Klinghoffer," an opera rationalizing the hijacking of a cruise ship by Palestinian terrorists and the murder of an elderly, wheelchair-bound Jew.
At the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York on June 11, the guest of honor will be Oscar Lopez Rivera, an unrepentant member of the FALN terrorist group who spent 35 years in federal prison for plotting to overthrow the government.
When convicted terrorists are treated to parades on Fifth Avenue, it encourages more terrorism everywhere.
And this, too, encourages terrorism: the rush after each atrocity by those eager to condemn the victims. In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, former London mayor Ken Livingstone went on Iranian TV to explain the bloodshed as an understandable reaction to "the torture at Guantanamo Bay." In an article for Foreign Policy Journal, Richard Falk — a UN official and Princeton professor — attributed the horror wrought by the Tsarnaevs to America's "fantasy of global domination."
When the global jihad will end, none of us can say. But this much, at least, is certain: The more we encourage the killers, the longer the killing will go on.
Once we and the rest of the world begin treating terrorists, their havens, and their families and friends as pirates were treated back in the 17th and 18th centuries, we will see less of it.
Instead, we talk about root causes, and give them rights.
By golly - he forgot to include that every time muslims are criticized in our country, we are encouraging more terrorists to join the battle. At least that’s what the dems tell us. But you know what - the terrorists are just as dim witted as the democrats. Ordering people off busses to recite their stupid pledge and killing them because they refuse to do so? If that’s not plain ignorance/stupidity, I don’t know what is. I would bet not one of the terrorists could even write or spell their own name...
I was starting to line up reasons to Zot this based on the headline, but the author gets it. Well done; thanks for the post.
When was this article published?
nypost.com/.../oscar-lopez-rivera-wont-be-honored-at-puerto-rican-day-parade-after-.
Former terror leader Oscar López Rivera will not be honored at this year’s Puerto Rican Day parade, after the ex-FALN chieftain decided to turn down the award in the face of a widespread parade boycott. Organizers of the June 11 march said the freed terror boss will forgo the “National Freedom Hero” honor and instead just march as a “humble” grandfather.
I don’t disagree with the sentiments and conclusions in the article at all rather the reverse but when there are inaccuracies in an article they blunt its impact.
The author article seems to blame Iran for a bunch of attacks that the Iranians had no connection with. The number one hurdle to making the world a safer place may be the need to overcome the obsession with Iran that blinds us to much greater dangers.
We encourage terrorism when we allow muslim Brotherhood mosques to exist in our country, when we include them in our “interfaith” organizations, and when we invite their imams to offer prayer at the Inaugural Service in the “National” Cathedral!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/trump-imam-magid/
PHOOEY!!!!
How Do We Encourage Terrorism?
=> Normalizing violent protests. Check! (BLM/Berkeley)
=> Normalizing terrorist imagery. Check! (Kathy Griffin holding Trumps severed head.)
Kill all terrorists. Kill their “ families” their friends, their financiers. KILL THEM ALL. Sorry, it’s the only way.
Oh, sorry, ... I forgot, ... that would make all the Nam-bie - Pam-bie liberals would cry. That's not being inclusive. That's discriminatory. That's not appreciating Diversity, ...Etc
Jeff Jacoby is known to those conservatives behind enemy lines in Massachusetts, because he was the token conservative for the Boston Globe for a while.
To his credit, he didn’t play the part of ‘token conservative’ the way the Globe wanted him to!
The author article seems to blame Iran for a bunch of attacks that the Iranians had no connection with. The number one hurdle to making the world a safer place may be the need to overcome the obsession with Iran that blinds us to much greater dangers.(anti-Semite?) Colonel Kangaroo: Iran apologist...Got it.
And if we continue business as usual, terrorism will continue and grow. When will we say, “ENOUGH!”. I am way past that point. I had my Howard Beale moment a long time ago.
The elected leaders offer their condolences after each attack. But where are the changes in policy to stop terrorism? By continuing business as usual, terrorism will continue and grow.
How to make elected leaders change course. Trump’s tiny litte move to suspend, temporarily, refugees and travel from hotbeds of terrorism is being fought tooth and nail by the left.
The only way leaders will change course is when they have no other choice.
We will not get to that point with business as usual.
Clearly we need a more numerous and experienced diplomatic staff to generate the right atmosphere. Let us send seventy or eighty senior State Department staff to Kabul in order for their experience and expertise to bring about a change.
And let’s repeat that exact action sending the highest ranking of the portion staff who have decades of government service until it works.
We should not be involved in intra-Islamic conflicts. I am not saying the Iranian regime is anything admirable, but it is clear that they are not the ones attacking America and Europe these past years.
bammy delivered 1.7 billion in cash to Iran. That will go a long way in killing Christians and Jews.
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