Posted on 12/15/2019 9:29:09 AM PST by Kaslin
The recent mayhem on London Bridge should remind everyone of the eternal evil of Islamic terrorism.
On November 29, Usman Khan, a supposedly former terrorist, wounded three people and fatally stabbed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt, two young Britons who — in an excruciating irony — participated in that day’s meeting (near the bridge) of Learning Together, an organization that claims to rehabilitate terrorists. Khan, 28, was considered one of its model students.
As Giulio Meotti recalled in a chilling essay for the Gatestone Institute, Khan wrote glowingly about his experiences with this outfit. “Learning Together is about opening minds, unlocking doors, and giving voice to those who are shutdown, hidden from the rest of us.”
It was all quite touching, really, until Khan forgot whatever he learned together, donned a fake bomb vest, strapped knives to his wrists, and then murdered these idealistic young people before lightning-quick lawmen shot him to death in a pristine use of police power.
Khan, it soon emerged, was convicted in 2012 for planning to detonate the London Stock Exchange, then-mayor of London Boris Johnson, and the London Eye, a mega-Ferris wheel on the Thames. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Never mind all that! Khan was sprung in December 2018, after just eight years behind bars. Khan posthumously exposed the stupid and deadly practice of freeing terrorists before they finish their sentences, for which there is simply no justification.
Also, since Khan’s rehabilitation clearly was a belly flop, other turnaround programs have been exposed as catastrophes.
According to Meotti, the Behavioural Insights Team studied 33 of the United Kingdom’s deradicalization programs. Only two were deemed successful. British criminologist Simon Cottee has mocked the prevailing “deadly delusions about curing terrorists.”
A French Senate report called that nation’s de-radicalization campaign a “total fiasco.” French lawmakers who visited one such facility in Chateau de Pontourny were appalled to learn that it housed exactly one reputedly recovering terrorist. A seemingly reformed terrorist named Mickaël Harpon worked for a French police terrorist-tracking unit. All was swell until Harpon committed a terror attack inside Paris police headquarters.
When then is to be done?
The most sensible thing to do with these Islamic extremist killers is to execute them. Membership in al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, and similar jihadist groups should be reason enough to liquidate these murderers before they neutralize any more innocents.
The ISIS fighters now in Syria should be wiped out. A single, swift mass trial and prompt executions would eliminate this deadly threat, which only grows as every day tempts individual or mass escapes from their captivity under highly distracted Kurdish forces.
Turkey, which now controls parts of Syria, lacks the lily livers and PC paralysis that make Europe too weak to get this done. Turkey should be encouraged to finish off the ISIS prisoners. These butchers are not soldiers. They wear no uniforms and represent no nation. As such, the Geneva Convention (which ISIS never signed) does not apply to them. They must not be allowed to use this pact as an unearned shield.
European nations should grow a collective vertebra and enact the death penalty for terrorists.
Britons on Thursday wisely chose to keep incumbent Boris Johnson as their prime minister. He led the Conservatives to win 365 seats in the House of Commons — a 39-seat majority , and 66 more seats than it had before the election. This places the Tories in their strongest position since 1987, during the premiership of Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher. Johnson and the Conservatives won primarily on Brexit, but opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn’s response to the London Bridge attack did Labour no favours.
After Khan’s killings, Sky News asked Corbyn if terrorists should finish their prison sentences. “Not necessarily, no,” Corbyn replied. “I think it depends on the circumstances and depends on the sentence and crucially depends on what they’ve done in prison.”
It depends; it depends; it depends?
Corbyn, thus, confirmed that his skull is softer than scones.
Earlier, Meotti reports, that the far-Left Corbyn has had been caught on camera “protesting the extradition of British terror suspects, including two aides to Osama bin Laden.”
It’s little surprise, then, that Corbyn dragged Labour down 42 seats, to a total of 203 members on its benches — the party’s weakest showing since 1935.
Conversely, after Khan’s bloodshed, Prime Minister Johnson told the Telegraph: “We must keep violent offenders and terrorists in jail longer and end the automatic early release system.” Johnson is tougher than Corbyn and, especially after his landslide win, likelier to make terrorists pay the ultimate price for their fundamental evil.
From London to Long Beach, remember this: Dead men tell no tales, nor do they stab people to death at Terrorists Anonymous conferences.
Who does Johnson’s hair?
They must use a can of hair spray a day.
Nobody wakes up everyday with that level of dishevel.
...and pack their remains in a drum and fill the remaining space with pig fat.
Return to country of origin, postage due.
In public, and televised
As long as we keep having a war on a tactic and ignoring the ideology that is at the root we will not be successful.
Islam is the problem.
There are NO safe muslims.
ANY of them can suddenly start following the Koran and example of their prophet.
Treat all of them as if they are fully loaded.
Well look at it this way, PDJT is critique on the orange color of his hair.
Once you execute a terrorist he will not return to terrorize your people. Yes. One at a time!
VSGPDJT and Johnson are quite the pair in multiple ways...
This should be a lesson to all. Well meaning bleeding heart liberals can learn that they should direct their sympathy towards more deserving individuals.
The indoctrination given to young m*slims stays with them throughout their lives, and guides them in their choice of actions. It trains them to lie about their “de-radicalization.” It conditions them to carry out the directives of their violent cult, even against those who are trying to help them.
I am unaware of any “reformed” jihadis. There must be a few, although they are probably in hiding.
Putting jihadis in jail gives them several years to learn more about jihad and to plan for the day when they get out. Re-integration programs don’t work. A more permanent solution would eliminate this problem.
The problem has always been declaring war on terror. WTF does that mean? We are close to 20 years of WOT with very little to show for it with way to many KIA and wounded and Trillions flushed down the drain. It took around four years to adequately eliminate the Axis.
Rand Paul....and I love it!!!
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