Posted on 08/12/2006 8:14:47 PM PDT by quidnunc
When will the Muslims of Britain stand up to be counted?
When will they declare, loud and clear, with no qualifications or quibbles about Britain's foreign policy, that Islamic terrorism is wrong?
Most of all, when will the Muslim community in this country accept an absolute, undeniable, total truth: that Islamic terrorism is their problem? they own it. And it is their duty to face it and eradicate it.
To stop the denial, endless fudging and constant wailing that somehow it is everyone else's problem and, if Islamic terrorism exists at all, they are somehow the main victims.
Because until that happens the problem will never be resolved. And there will be more 7/7s and, sometime in the future, another airplane plot will succeed with horrific loss of innocent life.
Equally important, those British politicians who have seemed obsessed with pandering to, and even encouraging, this state of denial, must throw off their politically-correct blinkers and recognise the same truth — that Muslim terrorism in Britain is the direct responsibility of British Muslims.
If only they would follow the lead of Home Secretary John Reid, whose tough, pragmatic, clear-sighted approach has been a breath of fresh air. Only then can they properly work out how to tackle it.
For instance, every airport in Britain is in chaos over the plane bomb-plot alert as every passenger is subjected to rigorous security checks. Why? They take lots of time, lots of staff, and are extremely expensive.
I'm a white 62-year-old 6ft 4ins suit-wearing ex-cop — I fly often, but do I really fit the profile of suicide bomber? Does the young mum with three tots? The gay couple, the rugby team, the middle-aged businessman?
No. But they are all getting exactly the same amount and devouring huge resources for no logical reason whatsoever. Yet the truth is Islamic terrorism in the West has been universally carried out by young Muslim men, usually of ethnic appearance, almost always travelling alone or in very small groups. A tiny percentage, I bet, of those delayed today have such characteristics.
This targeting of airport resources is called passenger profiling — the Israelis invented it and they've got probably the safest airports and airlines in the world.
In all my years at the front line of fighting terrorism, one truth was always clear — communities beat terrorists, not governments or security forces. But communities can't beat terrorism unless they have the will to do so. My heart sank this week as I saw and read the knee-jerk reaction of friends and neighbours of those arrested in this latest incident, insisting it was all a mistake and the anti-terrorist squad had the wrong people.
I have no idea whether those arrested are guilty or not. But neither have those friends and neighbours. They spoke as if it was inconceivable such a thing could happen in their community; that those arrested were all good Muslims; that Islam is a religion of peace so no Muslim could dream of planning such an act.
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After we all view the Wallace interview, we'll all realize that Ahmeninanutjob is just another average moderate mooselim.
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If Islam is truly a 'religion of peace', then it is your responsibility to:
- Denounce all terrorists within your religion
- Ostracize and exile them from your communities
- Forbid them access to your Mosques
- Shun them and their families
- Deny them financial resources
- Alert the proper authorities of their presence and plans
- Remove from power and position those clerics an Mullahs that instigate, approve of, and inspire terrorism and martyrdom
- Renounce Sharia law and demand the end of barbaric practices
- Prevent the indoctrination of your children to martyrdom and hatred
- Respect life and individual freedom
- Reform Islam and the Koran to remove barbaric practices and ideas
Until this is done, all Muslims will be suspect and Islam will be an unacceptable barbaric cult, soon to be recognized as such and rejected by the rest of the world.
That part's tied to our God, but you'll have to check with me tomorrow, because I'm way late for bed. Sorry.
Ping!
Good post.
Aug. 22??
Never? Because that's not what they believe?
August 22 apparently has great significance to Iran's Ahmadinejad, and there is some suspicion that he will be doing some dirty work at the crossroads on that date.
Bernard Lewis writes about it here"
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008768
The Word "Islam" does not translate to "peace", it translates to "submission to God (Allah)"
Muslims will be "at Peace" when everyone submits to Allah.
I agree. I wish Rush would read them.
Nope. The Dems think Israel was wrong to "kill" those poor Lebonese civilians. The left still sells the false idea to the sheeple, despite the evidense that the Hezzies wtaged it all or hid behind civilians.
Regardless, war is war. People who never knew, or forgot the bombing of Dresden and Tokyo.
Yeah, read that the day it came out hence my query FWIW.
Terror is a tactic. Like throwing a hand grenade.
You cannot have a war on a tactic. You fight wars against an enemy.
We (our sagacious leaders) cannot name our enemy. They do not have a spine. If you cannot name your enemy, you cannot defeat him.
Imagine if Britain did not have the backbone to fight their enemies during/after the Battle of Britain, and instead of trying to kill the Nazis, declared a war on V-1 and V-2 missiles.
Just plain stupid.
Every time I hear "WOT" I just shake my head.
It's Islam.
Someone should make a 3D version of "MoBombHead", put it in a jar of urine (simulated until you can get it home) and sell it at all major sporting events around the world.
No figurative nail was ever hit more squarely on the head.
That's exactly what it is, and what it's always been.
Terror - a tactic as you so correctly identified it - is conspicuous, immediate, and tangible; it's very easy for almost everyone to be "against" it.
But it's much more difficult for folks to force themselves to acknowledge who and what the real evil is in this case, and to speak its name boldly and clearly.
You have suffered no such problem!
Bears repeating: "It's Islam."
ping
Any goodness or legitimate rules (like praying 5 times a day-which is a lot of cr**) in the religion is a mask for "control". 4 wives lets them propogate at a "Master" rate. This is NOT a religion. It is a dictatorship on a massive scale. It is total control over a people who have not yet awakened to and refuse to acknowledge its' evil.
Islam has to quit blaming others, and clean their own filthy vermin laden house.
They keep pushing and pushing....someday someone is going to push back.....and it won't be politically correct
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