Diana West: Appeasing jihadists [anniversary of 7/7]

Washington Times ^ | July 7, 2006 | Diana West

[Tolik]

Just in time for the one-year anniversary of 7/7, a poll conducted for The Times of London indicates that 13 percent of British Muslims believe that the four Islamic suicide bombers who murdered 52 people in London last July should be regarded as "martyrs."

With a Muslim population in Britain estimated at 1.6 million, this means that some 208,000 British Muslims regard these killers with what can only be described as a worshipful attitude, which is despicable. But Mother England, it seems, is home to an awful lot of despicable people.

One of them, surely, is Anjem Choudary, who made related news this week. Mr. Choudary is a former leader of al-Mujahiroun, a defunct, jihad-inciting group, whose venomous pronouncements on Islamic supremacy have earned him a strange prominence in the British media. He refuses to condemn the 7/7 attacks, says Muslims shouldn't help police combat jihad terror and advocates sharia... for Britain. During a BBC "Newsnight" appearance this year, the host asked Mr. Choudary why he didn't simply move to a sharia state like Iran.

"Who says you own Britain, anyway?" Mr. Choudary replied. "Britain belongs to Allah. The whole world belongs to Allah ... If I go to the jungle, I'm not going to live like the animals, I'm going to propagate a superior way of life. Islam is a superior way of life."

<...snip...> This vignette wasn't law and order in action. It was desperate, craven appeasement. As the bobby put it, "You say things like that, you'll get them riled." And we mustn't get them riled. Let Anjem Choudary and his band of thugs praise mass killings, threaten more attacks and advocate murder by beheading on London streets in broad daylight, but don't get them riled.

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[Tolik]

Appeasement !

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[Enchante]

Well the scumbags just struck again, 100+ slaughtered in bombings in India:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663627/posts


When will people LEARN something about the depraved jihad fanatics????

[Enchante]

Well the scumbags just struck again, 100+ slaughtered in bombings in India:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663627/posts


When will people LEARN something about the depraved jihad fanatics????

[vimto]

" ..... the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct tot eh bull's-eye of disaster.

Winston Churchill 'the Second World War'.

[Triggerhippie]

"If I go to the jungle, I'm not going to live like the animals, I'm going to propagate a superior way of life. Islam is a superior way of life."

If he and his buddies truly believe that, why are they so hell bent on suicide?

[John Lenin]

One day people are going to wake up to the nightmare that multiculturalism has brought the west by our elitist leaders. Isn't socialism wonderful ?

[vimto]

The appeasing British Officer a the end of "Bridge over the River Kwai":

"My God what have I done?"

[John Lenin]

When you start inviting people from other countries and cultures that hate your guts beyond reason it puts every citizen of the country at risk. No amount of snooping is going to stop the attacks from coming. This is just the beginning, it will get much worse unless we surrender to their demands.

[The Great RJ]

Muslims have become the 21st Century equivalent of the Nazi party. While only a small number of Nazi party members engaged in the Holocaust, millions of members just wore their party badges and looked the other way and many knew what was going on and tacitly approved.

[vimto]

Totally agree - this is going to get so much worse before it gets better. I refuse to give in. Hard choices will have to be made - and our present leaders are prissy appeasers.

Imagine!!!!??? I take it that is sarcasm - that song is liberal twaddle gush of the highest order. I hope it was sarcasm. Please put my mind at rest!

[John Lenin]

All these bright ideas are hatched at secret meetings between the elites behind closed doors by people with far more money than brains.

[GMMAC]

PING!

[jan in Colorado]

"...don't get them riled" PING!

[Blind Eye Jones]

We should help him take his superior way of life to the jungle. I'm sure he'll manage to convince a few crocodiles and poisonous snakes about the superiority of Al ha... before he becomes a nice tid bit.

[Just A Nobody]

Thanks for the "...don't get them riled" PING!

Loooooove the graphic!!!

[CaptainCanada]

"........And we mustn't get them riled."

[Holicheese]

"Madness, Madness!"