The time for excuses for terrorism is over
The words of a wise man: “The time for excuses for terrorism is over…” So says British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. And he’s right. A recent report from two “think tanks” appears to me to be promoting appeasement as a way to deal with terrorism.
Britain’s close alliance with the United States has put it at particular risk of terrorist attack, two leading think tanks said Monday, but a government minister said the nation would not have been safer by staying out of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The continuing debate about the wisdom of Britain’s military commitments has intensified after the bombings of three London underground trains and a bus on July 7 killed 55 people, including the four suicide bombers, and injured some 700 others.
The Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Economic and Social Research Council said the situation in Iraq had given “a boost to the al-Qaida network’s propaganda, recruitment and fund-raising” and provided an ideal training ground for al-Qaida-linked terrorists.
This is a bunch of BS. al Qaida doesn’t need any excuses for perpetuating their attacks against any nation that is free. They hate all of us. Sure, they use the war in Iraq for their “recruitment drives”. Before the war though, they cited our very freedoms and values as an excuse.
Defense Secretary John Reid, however, argued that terrorism had to be confronted.
“The idea that somehow by running away from the school bully, then the bully will not come after you is a thesis that is known to be completely untrue by every kid in the playground and it is also refuted by every piece of historical evidence that we have,” Reid said in a British Broadcasting Corp. radio interview.
“The time for excuses for terrorism is over,” British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said at an EU meeting in Brussels, Belgium. “The terrorists have struck across the world, in countries allied with the United States, backing the war in Iraq and in countries which had nothing whatever to do with the war in Iraq.”
Everyone knows how the bully operates. They seek out those who appear to be weaker and pick on them. They push them around and prod them and get others to join the fun. But when the bullied get pissed off enough, they fight back and usually win. al Qaida is starting to learn this. Unfortunately it has been via the hard way.
The Sunni Council said the Quran, the Muslim holy book, forbade suicide attacks.
“Who has given anyone the right to kill others? It is a sin. Anyone who commits suicide will be sent to hell,” said Mufti Muhammad Gul Rehman Qadri, the council chairman. “What happened in London can be seen as a sacrilege. It is a sin to take your life or the life of others.”
The council said Muslims should not use “atrocities being committed in Palestine and Iraq” to justify attacks.
“We equally condemn those who may have been behind the masterminding of these acts, those who incited these youths in order to further their own perverted ideology,” Qadri said.
It’s good that so many Muslim groups have come out to condemn the 7-7-05 attacks in London. More of this needs to happen, and states like Britain cannot afford to run and hide in an effort to appease. They cannot allow the bully to push them around because the bully will never be their friend. Bullies use others to promote themselves, as Extreme Islam has shown with Spain. Europe has been a target for al Qaida for years now…it has nothing to do with any alliances to the US. It’s about freedom vs. Extreme Islam.
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