Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Downplaying the Commonality

Andrew Sullivan has a post up titled “London Next?” which links to a Guardian article regarding the arrest of 8 young men allegedly plotting to blow something up in London.  Andrew quotes the following from the article,

“Those arrested were all born and brought up in Britain. Security sources played down suggestions of any direct link between the arrested men and al-Qaida. Sources referred to groups of young radicalised Muslims who were “difficult to label” but viciously anti-western. Security sources suggested that the motive of the alleged planned attacks was anti-western but not dictated by anyone in the al-Qaida hierarchy.”

and says this about that quote,

“The small towns they lived in in southern, suburban and rural England are exactly where I grew up, which sends a shudder down my spine. Evil has come to the Shire! What this amounts to, I think, is theological, ideological terrorism that requires no state sponsor as such and no actual network like al Qaeda. And this is surely the trend. It certainly looks as if Madrid was a similarly loosely-connected operation. I’m not saying it means we should ignore state sponsors, like Iran. Au contraire. But I am saying that a policy that focuses entirely on state sponsors is going to miss an important part of the problem.”

Is it just good old British chums gone bad, or is it Islam, the religion of peace?

Drudge posts a link to these “graphic” photos and currently, 9 A.M., has as his main headline “Party for the Dead,” which links to the story about 5 U.S. soldiers killed in a bombing in Iraq yesterday.  It ain’t a wake, either.  Need I say more?

Update:  My choice for best quote regarding partying for the dead.

“To me—never mind the staggering brutality—this is like bragging about soiling your pants. Adults in civilized countries do not act like this. Not Americans. Not Israelis. But in the Muslim world, this is SOP. It reminds me of Carter’s failed Iran rescue a quarter of a century ago; the Iranians took the burned bodies of our soldiers and proudly displayed them on television. Great way to convince the world that Islam is a religion of thinkers, and that the Muslim world is not hostile and primitive and barbaric.”

Via Little Tiny Lies.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/31 at 05:57 AM
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