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The Mumbai atrocity is a wake-up call for a frighteningly unprepared world
Jewish World Review ^ | 12/02/08 | Melanie Phillips

Posted on 12/02/2008 3:22:06 AM PST by Alia

Around the world, people have reacted with horror to the vile atrocities in Mumbai.

For three days, our TV screens transmitted images of carnage and chaos ...

Despite the fact that Western citizens were caught up in the attacks, there is nevertheless a sense that this was nothing to do with us — a horrible event happening in a faraway place.

Among commentators, moreover, there has been no small amount of confusion.

Were these terrorists motivated by the grievance between Muslims and Hindus over Kashmir, or was this a broader attack by Al Qaeda?

If British and American tourists were singled out over Iraq — which many assume is the motive for such attacks — why were Indians targeted in the Victoria railway station?

And why was an obscure outreach centre geared to Jews marked for slaughter?

Such perceptions and questions suggest that, even now, Western commentators still don't grasp what the free world is facing. This was not merely a distant horror.

We should pay the closest possible attention to what happened in Mumbai because something on this scale could well happen here.

But because we don't understand what we are actually up against, we are not doing nearly enough to prevent this — or something even worse — occurring; and if it were to happen here, we would be unable to cope.

The Mumbai atrocities show very clearly what too many obdurately deny — that a war is being waged against civilization.

It is both global and local. It is not 'our' fault; it has nothing to do with Muslim poverty, oppression or discrimination.

The Islamic fundamentalist fanatics use specific grievances — Kashmir, Iraq, Palestine, Chechnya — merely as recruiting sergeants for their worldwide holy war against all 'unbelievers'.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bombay; globaljihad; india; islam; jihad; melaniephillips; mohammedanism; mohammedanism122008; mumbai
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What Melanie Phillips details later on in the article is what stands paying largest, gravest attention to. I think she is quite right in her analysis.
1 posted on 12/02/2008 3:22:06 AM PST by Alia
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To: Alia; little jeremiah; Indian_Fighter_Kite; Knitting A Conundrum; Hari prasad; MimirsWell

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2 posted on 12/02/2008 3:27:09 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

WE’RE GONNA CHANGE THE WORLD

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Change! Change!

For the Obamaites: There's your "change", you naive, kool aid drinking SHEEP in a world of WOLVES!!!

3 posted on 12/02/2008 3:32:10 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Shouldn't we form "Committees of Correspondence" thru Freepmail & V-Cards if FR is to be shut down?)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

World is unprepared because the same world disarmed their citiZens


4 posted on 12/02/2008 3:32:45 AM PST by Flavius (war gives peace its security)
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To: Alia
This new strategy entails targeting countries with a substantial Muslim presence for 'low-intensity warfare' comprising bombings, kidnappings, the taking of hostages, the use of women and children as human shields, beheadings and other attacks that make normal life impossible.

India has lost more than 3000 people to Muslim attacks since 2004 alone.

I fear Rice is headed to India to tell them to suck it up, increase their security, and be more understanding of "Muslim rage." We increased our security to irritating levels and bought ourselves some time; the one effective thing we did, that is, Iraq, has been undermined by domestic criticism and is now discredited by the opinion makers in the US; and we just elected a completely Islamic-friendly (if not practicing Muslim himself) president. Not good.

5 posted on 12/02/2008 3:39:04 AM PST by livius
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To: Alia

a horrible event happening in a faraway place.

Exactly what 9/11 was to Europeans and Asians.


6 posted on 12/02/2008 3:43:21 AM PST by chainsaw
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To: Alia

If folks had been allowed to carry a personal weapon, I gotta wonder if this would have been so bad?


7 posted on 12/02/2008 3:49:54 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Alia

This could very well happen here soon; in fact, I think it’s a given. We are at war and only one side of that war is showing up to fight it, and it isn’t us. The Obamunist and his ilk have swallowed the kumbaya cocktail, and will rock back and forth, arms linked, and with weepy eyes lament: “Can we all just get along? Why don’t they like us?” All the while, their fellow citizens are being slaughtered.

It would be well to remember the words of Dean Acheson:

“No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.”


8 posted on 12/02/2008 3:52:42 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Alia

The Muslims have slaughtered 10’s of thousands of human beings since the attscks of 9/11. Since that has not awken the civilized world I doubt seriously that this lastest slaughter will.
The civilized world refuses to accept the fact that the mulsims have declared war on it with the intent of burning iot to the ground so that they the muslim can rule once again in a 7th century style world.
Until they (civlized world) accept the fact that this is a fight to the death then nothing is going to change.


9 posted on 12/02/2008 3:55:48 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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To: Alia

These Muslims are like ants or other insects. To stop them you need to destroy the hive. Allah Ahkbar!


10 posted on 12/02/2008 3:56:47 AM PST by screaminsunshine (.)
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To: Joe Boucher

People would have died, but the terrorists would have been taken out a lot quicker. They would not have been able to walk around spraying bullets whilst smiling at each other.


11 posted on 12/02/2008 3:57:18 AM PST by Hatter6
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To: Alia
It is much, much too late for the "world" to "wake up". First of all, there is no political or military community called "the world".

Secondly, the time to design and execute a strategy to conquer and disperse our enemies was October 2001. The choice to convert Islam into something other than what it is by moral suasion and a punch in the nose, rather than an 80-100 division conquest, occupation, and reconstruction of our main enemies (Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) was a mistake.

Obama and whoever succeeds him will have to figure out how to pay for the mistake.

12 posted on 12/02/2008 3:57:24 AM PST by Jim Noble (I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel)
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To: Alia
The Mumbai atrocity is a wake-up call for a frighteningly unprepared world

Golly!

How does one 'prepare' for things like this?

13 posted on 12/02/2008 3:59:09 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Hatter6

Exactly.
Luby’s Restaurant in Waco several years ago comes to mind.


14 posted on 12/02/2008 3:59:20 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Alia
It is much, much too late for the "world" to "wake up". First of all, there is no political or military community called "the world".

Secondly, the time to design and execute a strategy to conquer and disperse our enemies was October 2001. The choice to convert Islam into something other than what it is by moral suasion and a punch in the nose, rather than an 80-100 division conquest, occupation, and reconstruction of our main enemies (Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) was a mistake.

Obama and whoever succeeds him will have to figure out how to pay for the mistake. Here's my prediction from 9/13/01 of the direction Mr. Compassionate Conservative and his grownups would pursue.

15 posted on 12/02/2008 4:02:09 AM PST by Jim Noble (I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel)
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To: SECURE AMERICA
The Muslims have slaughtered 10’s of thousands of human beings since the attscks of 9/11.

We can handle it!

Just think; we kill about 3000 of our OWN unborn citizens every DAY!

If we just decide to KEEP these folks, we could turn them into almost a MILLION man person army, starting in 18 years from now - adding another million EVERY year from them on.

If they are expendable NOW, just THINK how we could use them as an ARMY!!

16 posted on 12/02/2008 4:03:48 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Joe Boucher

But personal weapons have no use except to kill people, which would... oh, wait....


17 posted on 12/02/2008 4:06:09 AM PST by papertyger
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To: Alia
People who would ban the private ownership of firearms, especially legal concealed, carry have no answer for Mumbai. Yet, when can we expect our own Mumbai here in the US? And when it happens, I will wager that its meticulous planners will make sure it only takes place in a place that prohibits private concealed carry.
18 posted on 12/02/2008 4:12:54 AM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: Alia
52% of American voters do not care about terror or our Nation ceasing to exist... they just voted a friend of al qaeda into the Presidency... a muzzie himself by his own Nationwide TV admittance.

LLS

19 posted on 12/02/2008 4:21:47 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (GOD, Country, Family... except when it comes to dims! I am an UMA-unity my a$$)
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To: Alia
"Among commentators, moreover, there has been no small amount of confusion."

In all of these attacks, no matter where they occur, there are several constants, one being the incomprehensible cluelessness of the commentator and media types. I'm no rocket surgeon, but I can help clear this up for them.

For the islamowhackjobs, there are no civilians, only targets. We need to be constant in our vigil. As long as they live in the same world as the rest of us, we can count on another Mumbai. It's not a matter of "if" but rather "when" their next attack will occur.

20 posted on 12/02/2008 4:51:00 AM PST by GBA
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