Posted on 08/09/2005 11:21:20 AM PDT by JZelle
In announcing last week a sweeping crackdown in Britain on the "evil ideology" coming to be known as Islamofascism, Prime Minister Tony Blair declared that "the rules of the game have changed." So, it would appear, has he. In fact, Mr. Blair has become an exemplar of the old adage that a "conservative is a liberal who has been mugged." The two bombing attacks on London's mass-transit systems, perpetrated mostly by home-grown Islamist suicide bombers (actual or would-be), not only mugged Britain's recently reelected leader, but his country, as well. As a result, Tony Blair appears to have broad popular support for abandoning his past, disastrous political correctness -- a stance he had clung to even after the September 11, 2001 hijackers mugged a great many American liberals (at least temporarily). Gone was his previous commitment to allow Islamist communities to operate with impunity in Britain, even those that made no secret of their sympathies with, and support for, terror. By contrast, on August 5, the prime minister announced that he was "absolutely and completely committed" to ensuring that those foreign clerics and others who come to Britain and condone, glorify or justify terrorism are deported. Ditto those "actively engaged" with Web sites, bookshops, networks and organizations considered to be inciting hatred. Two such organizations, the radical Islamofascist Al Mujahiroun and its successor, Hizb-ut-Tahira, were proscribed. Mosques where such activities are allowed to take place will be shut down. Asylum will no longer be granted terrorists or their sympathizers. And British nationals engaging in speech that promotes terror risk being stripped of their citizenship and deported or incarcerated.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
It's about time political correctness has been replaced with common sense. Hopefully the USA will catch on.
Yeah, I know. Well...it was worth a shot!
Pretty sure Christopher Hitchens is credited with coining the term Islamo-Facism.
**Islamo-Fascism
We will, immediately after one or more of our cities are vaporized.
No thanks. I don't know why everyone gets so excited when a liberal experiences a blinding flash of the obvious. They should be chastised for being so d@mn stupid in the first place. Lives have been lost over this stupidity, and if we don't wake up and control our borders, MANY lives could be lost here.
The article makes a good point about Blair being just as wrong about creating a "country" named Palestine as he was about letting all of the Islamofascists into Britain. It will be no more than a terrorist breeding ground. Why is it that Euroweenies and liberals, even when they finally come around on one subject, can't seem to apply the same logic to other scenarios. I'll tell you why. It's because they're stupid, and it's getting people killed. How many people must die in the U.S. before we quit being stupid? Wasn't 3,000 enough?
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