Posted on 07/09/2002 3:58:37 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:07:21 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
July 9, 2002 -- ON the 4th of July, an Egyptian immigrant to the United States who believes in wild conspiracy theories about Jews, is known for his great "hate for Israel," and has possible ties to al Qaeda, armed himself to the teeth and assaulted the Israeli airline counter at Los Angeles International Airport, killing two.
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One instance of this, like at LAX, can probably be written off as a "hate crime" as easily as terrorism. However, let's keep an eye out for these small actions, they may be part of a bigger picture. And not all forms of terror are this dramatic, some may just involve disrupting society's infrastructure. In short, that guy that served you the Slurpy at the Quickie-Mart may spend his evenings on the Internet researching areas with drought conditions and fire restrictions in place, in order to start a few major, expensive blazes and completely tie up emergency services for an area. All that takes is a knowledge of wind direction, a box of matches and a drive around some isolated country roads. Think about it
That was exactly the rationale behind the Clinton administration's minimizing of attacks as "isolated incidents." The result? 9/11.
How many human lives are we willing to sacrifice in "suppressing the enemy's ability to score points?"
If so much as ONE AMERICAN CITIZEN standing in line at a United Airlines counter in Manila, Philippines was gunned down by a lone, Filipino Muslim who was later gunned down, would the US State Department declare that:
America has a terrible double standard that is going to make it an enemy of many good allies. We restrain Israel for going after terrorist cells which we most certainly would have done ourselves. We call terrorism something else because Americans were not killed and it was at a foreign carrier's counter.
We are asking for it in the court of world opinion, IMHO.
The same applies to the recent bombing of our embassy in Pakistan; no Americans killed, so the president ignores the fact that American property was destroyed, and Americans targeted, to lament the fact that Muslims were killed by fellow Muslims.
I see no difference in this approach than in Clinton's approach to the embassy bombings and the attack on the Cole. Instead of outrage, we tiptoe through the diplomatic minefield, hoping nothing more blows up until the memory fades.
Perhaps that's the reason these things don't occur in rapid succession -- they can mock the worldest greatest superpower through well-spaced attacks.
To keep the sheeple calm and controlled. Don't want the sheeple to get alarmed and start demanding. Don't want the sheeple to think they are in danger and start demanding. Don't want the sheeple to get too involved in what might be going on. Ignorance is bliss. Keep the sheeple ignorant, and they will remain fat and happy.
I'm convinced that's what's going on. It's the only explanation for this. People who are paying attention know perfectly well, or at least can read the signs, that we have been under attack by Islam for years, if not decades. But govts, not just our own, are unwilling to acknowledge this to their populace, for the reasons you just stated.
In many western countries, forced marriages, and underage marriages are ignored by authorities in order to be sensitive to Islam! Even women abuse by their patriarchal family traditions is ignored.
The west needs to wake up and realize that Islam, as it is practice and preached today must be named an ILLEGAL religion, not compatible with the civilized world. However, if Moslems choose to reform that barbaric, stone-age religion to something like Islam-Light, may be we should allow it in such non-threatening form?
I think giving all the organized hostility from Moslems of late, it is appropriate to call any act of violence by “all” Moslems as terrorism, until proven otherwise. The Israeli guard at the El Al counter should be given a gift from the US taxpayers for saving us the thousands of dollars to imprison—show the prisoner the Qaba direction—hiring a rag-head lawyer—and all the BS that Mousawi is putting us through. The prison guard of Mousawi should find him hanging in his cell, what a loss!
Then why warn people for weeks ahead of time that we are likely to see more terrorist acts, especally on July 4th? It still doesn't make sense. I can only conclude that political correctness is ingrained to such an extent that both government officials and media will grasp at any straw to avoid being accused of being anti-Arab or anti-Muslim.
The autopsy revealed that Jandoubi was wearing two pairs of trousers and four pairs of underpants, which the coroner compared to what is worn by "Islamic militants going into battle or on suicide missions."What a terrible, bizarre cult Islam is, where Monty Python style comedy and and the most horrific hate-filled violence meet.
Interesting point.
I wish more understood this.
The emphasis should be on the fact that we are IN A WAR - a real war.
Which means we are trying to kill them and they are trying to kill us.
I just wish in addition to playing down whatever the terrorists are doing for the purposes you explain well above - we would hear more about how we are succeeding in killing them. THAT is just as important as the above.
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