In the week following the terror attacks in the UK and Scotland, it was frustrating to see so many people, even as high as the Mayor of London and the new Prime Minister, keeping such a politically correct distance from the underlying causes of jihadi terror attacks. I don’t understand why so many refuse to look at what is really happening here. What if we find a radical Muslim who is willing to explain it to us?
…as with previous terror attacks, people are again saying that violence carried out by Muslims is all to do with foreign policy.
For example, on Saturday on Radio 4’s Today programme, the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, said: “What all our intelligence shows about the opinions of disaffected young Muslims is the main driving force is not Afghanistan, it is mainly Iraq.”
I left the British Jihadi Network in February 2006 because I realised that its members had simply become mindless killers. But if I were still fighting for their cause, I’d be laughing once again.
I find it interesting that the writer says he left because they had gotten too extreme for him…no disavowal of the underlying theology, just pulling away from the “mindless killers”.
…And though many British extremists are angered by the deaths of fellow Muslim across the world, what drove me and many others to plot acts of extreme terror within Britain and abroad was a sense that we were fighting for the creation of a revolutionary worldwide Islamic state that would dispense Islamic justice.
This is ideology based on Muslim theology. It is a worldview that informs and directs all of their thinking and all of their actions.
…the foundation of extremist reasoning rests upon a model of the world in which you are either a believer or an infidel. Formal Islamic theology, unlike Christian theology, does not allow for the separation of state and religion: they are considered to be one and the same.
And he cuts to the main point when he says
…But the main reason why radicals have managed to increase their following is because most Muslim institutions in Britain just don’t want to talk about theology.
They refuse to broach the difficult and often complex truth that Islam can be interpreted as condoning violence against the unbeliever - and instead repeat the mantra that Islam is peace and hope that all of this debate will go away.
The head-in-the sand reaction of not just ordinary citizens but of news people, politicians, and even some Muslim organizations underscores why this could be the most serious problem we face in the West.
….The car-bomb/suicide-terror operations in London and Glasgow should have provided a fresh opportunity for reminding everyone, especially Muslims in Britain, that terrorism in the name of Islam still poses a major threat to public peace and safety. Yet this is not what is happening.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown keeps repeating that the attacks have nothing to do with Islam - but, at the same time, keeps inviting “Muslim community leaders” to Downing Street to discuss how to prevent attacks. If the attacks have nothing to do with Islam, why invite Muslim “leaders” rather than Buddhist monks?
They don’t want to have tea and crumpets, they don’t want to talk, and they don’t want to work out any solutions… they want to kill us because we are not Muslims.
….The terrorists who tried to kill people in London and Glasgow are the same ones killing people in Baghdad and Karachi. They are the same who killed tens of thousands of Egyptians and perhaps as many as a quarter-million Algerians over the decades. They are motivated not by any religious grievance but by an insatiable appetite for political power. They want to seize control of societies, break them into submission and impose on every individual a mad tyranny of terror in the name of God.
(and I object to this writer using “God” instead of “Allah”… contrary to what the “progressive and open-minded” crowd would have you belive, they are NOT the same, and most Jews, Christians, and Muslims will agree on that point, if nothing else)
The cartoon is from the Dry Bones Blog from July 6th. “Bones” says it exactly right
…I cringe every time I hear the phrase “War On Terror”. The “terrorists” that are attacking the West are the soldiers of the Islamist movement. We know it. But we don’t say it.
Our countries fight terrorists as if they were simply criminals. We seem, not yet, to understand that we are in an ideological war. A war based on ideas and beliefs. We won’t start winning that war until we are ready to battle against those ideas and beliefs. It’s a simple truth.
And I agree with what Cal Thomas has said, and what he asks in his commentary. When ARE we going to wake up and call it what it is, and do what needs to be done?
(hat tip to Pierre LeGrande for Cal Thomas)
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