Posted on 08/12/2006 4:00:24 AM PDT by dirtboy
LONDON - Prominent British Muslims, including three in Parliament, said in an open letter Saturday that Britain's foreign policy has made it a target for extremists. The country's terror alert remained at the highest level, though flights at Heathrow Airport were expected to return to "nearly normal."
The letter, printed in several British papers, said Britain's intervention in Iraq and the failure to secure an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon were providing "ammunition to extremists who threaten us all."
"We urge the prime minister ... to show the world that we value the lives of civilians wherever they live and whatever their religion," said the letter, which was signed by three of four Muslim members of Parliament and 38 Muslim groups, including the influential Muslim Council of Britain. "Such a move would make us all safer."
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I was kind of surprised to read that Britain had 3 Muslims in their parliament. In the US we probably have them in the Congress also, though they dont actually admit it. I know we have some people who are Muslim enablers and traitors to their country and still Democrats vote them in.
One of them claims to be a medal winner in the service of his country , but he wont produce any records of it .
That is one of islams greatest errors. Because islam (and muslims) are exempt from criticism, it cannot grow and mend itself. Ergo, it remains stagnant and putrefied.
Christianity on the other hand reveals its truth as result of constant examination and Christians learn to see the error of their ways by introspection and become contrite.
Time to declare war on Islam. Bush came pretty close the other day, calling them Islamofascists. CAIR didn't like that. (Zogby's been absent from TV since the news about the UK plane plot. What's he going to say? It's Israel's fault?)
Amen Brother! Time for another CRUSADES!!! DESTROY ALL THAT WORSHIP satan/allah!
LLS
I think you've got it.
The problem is that when you go "there's no excuse for violence" route you get the "give peace a chance" "you were both fighting, you both get punished (in grade schools, with a clear bully and a clear defender)", "proportional response" to agression" and other such far left nonsense.
I prefer "you start, I end it any way I want to" With "You start" defined as any physical agression at all.
This includes: bully pokes kid, bully is suspended or kicked out of school into
man beats up woman, she goes to the er to document injuries, she now has a clear defense for her murdering him, at her convenience
someone breaks into your house, he gets killed
majority of a country elects a terrorist government that lobs a bomb at me, their country becomes a parking lot...or unconditional surrender
Sad that it will have to come to that before we can get the official declaration.
Had the TV on late last night, CNN, with Christine Amanpour detailing the history of Muslim bombings, starting with the blind Imam and the first World Trade Center bombing. She didn't mention Kobar Towers bombing, the embassy bombing, the Cole, etc...she was concentrating on why Muslims don't like Western Civilization and want to see us all dead...their point of view. She had a laminated card she held up for viewers to see...which I missed since my eyes were closed. The card was, I think, a list of what Muslim terrorists should do if caught, or something like that. Maybe a motivational aid.
Cause of British Foreign policy.
Yeah, thats it.
'Screw Islam'. Excellent.
Where's that numbskull, Robert Fiske? Surely he has something say about Muslims planning to kill thousands of innocents.
Someone posted this before, but it's oh so true and an overwhelming rebuttal to the argument that Iraq has caused all this terrorist activities...
VERY PARTIAL LIST OF ISLAMIC TERRORIST ACTIVITIES
Full list is pages and pages and pages and pages.
1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on their terrorism has gone .........
What a surprise, everyone he polled is happy that Lieberman was defeated. He gave his poll results with a straight face and they were received with a straight face.
I agree with you. Sadly, it'll take another horrific attack to get this country to get elites and the general dumb public to admit we're truly at war. (Although I heard encouraging noises from people when the plane plot was exposed. People actually said 'we're all at war'.) But if we lose congress to the dems, there goes any hope of a republican president being able to wage war. Dems will line up to wave the white flag. (Dean immediately blamed Bush for the plot.)
Other than the Lieberman/Lamont race and his polling, Zogby's been on TV lately promoting the Muslim/Arab point of view vis a vis Israel's defending herself. Just wondered what he'd have to say about the plane bombs -- lies or weasely moralizing about poverty and illiteracy being breeding grounds for the poor 'disaffected'. 'Disaffected' is the new code word used by elitist/Libs to describe homicidal Muslims. Isn't it amazing that they can come up with countless euphemisms to avoid calling a spade a spade, and somehow it's all our fault. We just need to 'educate' them, (last week's bright idea), fix the poverty problem, and things will be fine.
"Such a move would make us all safer"
Sounds like a veiled threat, doesn't it? The connections of these "muslim members of Parliament" to muslim groups receiving money and/or directives from foreign powers/sources should be fully vetted.
The same thing should be happening with CAIR in the US.
Thanks for posting that list. Have copied and saved for dispersal...
all in the name of peace and love. don't forget that part.
Have just visited "have your say" on the BBC website to add my comment/recommend comments. Granted, there were some well thought out posts, but the number of weirdoes stating that it was a Bush+Blair conspiracy/Britain's fault for being in the middle east/all lies etc in fact just about everybody's fault except the actual perpetrators, still surprised me. I should expect this rubbish from the BBC but it still gets to me. One of the reasons why I won't pay the license.
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