Posted on 02/09/2005 9:08:02 AM PST by quidnunc
New antiterrorism measures proposed by Britain's Labour government in late January — including curfews, electronic tagging, and house arrest for terror suspects — were a step in the right direction for a nation increasingly beset by radical Islamists.
The fact that British authorities have arrested dozens of suspected Islamic terrorists and terror sympathizers over the past year and thwarted several terrorist plots (including one which involved crashing airplanes into Heathrow Airport and London's financial district) merely underscores Britain's dubious position as al Qaeda's leading European target.
Yet, despite the almost-daily reports of terrorist schemes and anti-Semitic attacks coming out of Scotland Yard, some leading Labour-party officials still don't grasp the severity of the Islamist threat — in fact, they are advancing ideas and policies that would strengthen it. A case in point: Labour MP and Energy Minister Mike O'Brien, who penned a shamelessly pandering op-ed in Britain's Muslim Weekly newspaper last month titled "Labour and British Muslims: Can we dream the same dream?"
O'Brien's fear that Labour's Muslim constituency will abandon the party in Britain's upcoming general election owing to Prime Minister Tony Blair's strong support of President Bush was evident in his opening paragraph:
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Shock! Horror! Labour Minister holds views that Right Wing Americans might disagree with...
**Yawn**
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Actually, old FRuit, the point you have missed is that the ministers of the gummint of britainistan -- the Euro-peons' Neo-Soviet's squalidly fasciSSocialistic off-shore satellite state -- and about 68% at last count of the low-browed, rotten-toothed, endemically-alcoholic bovver-girly-boy population of that increasingly islamonazified couple of islands are blissfully unaware they -- along with their mailand Neo-Soviet maties -- have already committed collective suicide.
Rule britainistannia.
Chin chin. Toodle-oo.
You really are beyond parody, aren't you?
There are very few people in this life who I believe are totally beyond redemption. You fall into that catagory.
The opening paragraphs show how we are getting to grips with the problem. Yes we have leftist traitors, so do you. If you think America is some citadel against Islamic terror, you are sadly mistaken. Get a copy of Fahrenhype 9/11. Skip to the part where Al Qaeda cells were found. You'll see on the map that the red dots go from sea to shining sea.
You and quidnunc merely have an anti-British axe to grind - spitting in the face of the ally that has consistently stood with America and has put its blood on the line. The British soldiers who have died and continue to die in Iraq, and in Afghanistan, deserve better recognition than your pitiful insults. It is a relief to know that the vast majority of Americans agree with me, and not with you.
Ivan
America's meth problem seems to be worse than we realised.
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