Are We All Londoners?
There has been a great show of solidarity among editorial pages and bloggers around the world since the terrorist attack on London. Many are proclaiming "
We're all Londoners". If we really want to show solidarity against the terrorists though, shouldn't we be standing shoulder to shoulder, blog to blog, editorial to editorial, declaring, "We're all Israelis"? London got hit once. We were shocked even though we shouldn't have been. We praised the bravery of London citizenry in their refusal to cower in the face of terror. That's fine.
Israel, however, has been putting up with these murderers for the past 57 years. And few outside of Israel have had the courage or the clear sense of morality to proclaim their solidarity with the Israelis. Not only has Israel not caved in to the terrorists, they've managed to build a thriving country from nothing while battling these vile piles of pig droppings. That kind of steadfastness should be continuously celebrated among the civilized people of the world. Instead, what do the Israelis get from the world press and other "progressives"? Vilification mostly for daring to defend themselves and continuing to enjoy the highest standard of living in the Middle East.
The majority of the world, including that "international bastion of civilization", the U.N. has focused their ire on the Israelis, apolgizing for and excusing terror attacks against the Jewish State, and in some cases, blaming them outright. The
terror supporing mayor of London himself, Ken Livingstone looks the London terrorists in the eye while hypocritically supporting those who attack Israelis.
We can and should support the people of London in their fight against terror. But to ignore or disdain the sacrifice and the stamina of the Israelis in this world-wide battle against Islamofascism is not only hypocritical but self-defeating. The countries and governments of the world who are seriously in this fight should be working hand-in-hand with Israel and publicly supporting them. We need to be as united in our aims as the Islamic terror masters are in theirs.
Labels: Israel, Ken Livingstone, London, terrorism
Israeli MD hero on bombed London tube
Unless Western nations realize this is a war, and begin fighting the terrorists with every means at our disposal, we can expect more slaughters like the one on the London tube. For years the world has been condemning Israel for battling these Islamic terrorists, with European nations taking the side of the terrorists. And this is their reward.
As we can see from this
Jerusalem Post article, Israelis have too much experience at handling these terrorist attacks.
Dr. Benny Meilik and his young family had finished their breakfast and were getting ready to explore London. It was the first time they had visited the city together and Bar, 17, and Rony, 12, couldn't wait to get out and see the sights they heard so much about.
In his work as an emergency surgeon and consultant at the Tel Aviv Medical Center, he has worked saving lives from terror attacks across Israel – and he wanted some peaceful, reflective time with his wife Libby, away from the trauma of treating victims of violence.
But on the first morning of his trip he found himself dragging victims free from the wreckage of the 8:51 a.m. Piccadilly Line eastbound train and working frantically to save their lives.
The family were staying in the Russell House Hotel, next door to the tube station.
When the bomb went off in the deep underground tunnel, visitors at the hotel felt the tremor and heard the rumbling bang that signalled London's worst-ever terrorist attack.
Meilik did not waste time, and his speedy response saved lives.
"I have heard enough explosions to know what they sound like, and when I heard the boom I sprung into action," he said later.
Leaving his wife and children at the hotel, which was evacuated moments later by the police, he dashed outside to find out what had happened.
Europe should be supporting Israel, asking for Israeli help, not only medically as was given by Dr. Meilik, but in tactics, and working side by side with Israel to defeat the Islamofascist threat. Will this happen? Probably not. The Europeans have to battle their own anti-semitism first, including the vile new strains introduced by their Islamic immigrants.
Labels: Dr Benny Meilik, Jerusalem Post, London, terrorism
London Calling
LONDON CALLING TO THE FARAWAY TOWNS,
NOW THAT WAR IS DECLARED - AND BATTLE COME DOWN
No, this is not the war The Clash was talking about. But it's here, it's been here and it isn't going away, since as I peruse other blogs, like
Michelle Malkin and
Mediacrity, I read that the British and American press are already
toning down their coverage, or making complete
asses of themselves. I suppose that was to be predicted. We have to constantly be reminded that "they're not all terrorists", and that these "bombers" as the BBC now refers to them, have "hijacked Islam". Yes those are the politically correct things to say, but a certain amount of ignorance of history or willingness to lie through one's teeth, is needed to mouth those platitudes. Fortunately we have the antidote to this idiocy readily available. There are two great recent essays over at
VDH's Private Papers. One is by Victor Hanson, called
The Same Old, Same Old, An Anatomy of the London Bombing.
The British may react very differently than the Spanish did after Madrid — by doing nothing rather than by retreating from Iraq.
In the corrupt West these days, that is something.
We all know the score of this war now in the near four years since September 11. The London bombings should remind us how the old tired game works.
Causes
Failed states in the Middle East — autocratic, statist, unfree, intolerant of women and other religions — blame the West for their self-inflicted miseries. Sometimes they are theocratic, like the late Taliban or the current Iranian mullahs. But more often they are dictatorial like the Syrians, Pakistanis, Saudis, or Egyptians, who all, in varying degrees and in lieu of reform, have come to accommodations with the terrorists to shift popular anguish onto the West and the Jews.
That is the Petri dish of Islamic fascism, an evil that will only disappear when the dictatorships that allow it or nourish it do as well.
The other one, by Bruce Thornton is,
Jihad is Knocking, Another Episode in the War Between Christendom and Islam.
Indeed, what we call Islamic radicals are in fact Islamic traditionalists; it is the so-called “moderates” — those wanting to compromise Islam so it can coexist with Western ideas such as secular government, separation of church and state, and human rights — who are the radicals and innovators. The terrorists are simply fulfilling the traditional and orthodox command of their religion to battle the infidels who resist the revelation of Mohammed and the global socio-political order mandated by Islam.
Listen to one of the most respected and influential of Muslim clerics, Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, on the legitimacy of jihad: “It has been determined by Islamic law that the blood and property of people of Dar Al-Harb [the Domain of Disbelief where the battle for the domination of Islam should be waged] is not protected. Because they fight against and are hostile towards the Muslims, they annulled the protection of his blood and his property." (See Andrew Bostom:).This interpretation is entirely consistent with fourteen centuries of Islamic theology and jurisprudence, which in turn is based on the Koran's injunction to “slay them [infidels] wherever you catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out; for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter . . . . Such is the reward of those who suppress faith.” And this jihad is to continue “until persecution is no more, and religion is all for Allah.”
Islam's divinely sanctioned entitlement to global domination explains the symbolic value of the London attacks: one day after London was chosen to host the 2012 Olympics, and right in the middle of the G8 summit in Scotland.
There are writers and scholars promoting an honest apraisal of Islam and insisting that we have to acknowledge that Jihad is alive and well. And there are certainly Imams and terrorists demonstrating with murder and mayhem that Jihad is preferable to living in peace with "the infidel" to a large segment of Islam. So why aren't Hollywood, our MSM, and political leaders listening?
Labels: islam, London, terrorism
Back to Reality - Sunday Morning Cynicism
In the days immediately following the grisly bombings in London, I was hard pressed to find any reports of homicide bombings in Iraq. There can only be three reasons for this.
One, I missed them. They were overshadowed by the London attack and so were not deemed "headline worthy".
Two, They have become so run-of-the-mill that because of the London bombings the stories weren't important enough to run at all.
Three, the terrorists in Iraq took a few days off because without press reports of these murders, they don't have as much effect. After all, the point is not only to murder as many as possible, but to have a compliant press reprort and fret over these daily attacks. I assume terrorists follow the news too, otherwise, what's the point of al-Jazeera?
Today is the first day I've seen the suicide murderers given their headlines back since 7/7. Now the MSM can get back to their regularly scheduled we-are-doomed-in-Iraq defeatist reporting.
Labels: Iraq, London, MSM, terrorism
Terrorist Bombs in London
Following the links trying to get more information on the London terrorist bombings, (notice, the British press is no longer afraid of the word "terrorist") I found
this article written by the former Joseph Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI.
Europe, precisely in this its hour of maximum success, seems to have become empty inside, paralyzed in a certain sense by a crisis in its circulatory system, a crisis that puts its life at risk, resorting, as it were, to transplants that cannot but eliminate its identity. To this interior failure of its fundamental spiritual powers corresponds the fact that, even ethnically, Europe appears to be on the way out.
There is a strange lack of desire for a future. Children, who are the future, are seen as a threat for the present; the idea is that they take something away from our life. They are not felt as a hope, but rather as a limitation of the present. We are forced to make comparisons with the Roman Empire at the time of its decline: it still worked as a great historical framework, but in practice it was already living off those who would dissolve it, since it had no more vital energy.
It's a very thoughtful article, and I think it also applies to the United States.
I present this article because after the murderous attack in London, I'm left cynical, and I wonder, will this open anyone's eyes? Or will the European villification of Israel and Jews continue? Will Muslims continue to be defended against a feared "backlash"? (Does anyone remember a 9/11 backlash, or were we too mollified with the mantra, "they're not all terrorists"?) Will the press continue to take an alleged Koran desecration more seriously than the murder of innocents by Muslim terrorists? Will self-loathing idiots on the left explain how the west is to blame for these attacks based on all of the absurd reasons we've already heard?
What will it take before the MSM and our leaders in the West admit that there is a problem with Islam, that even if all Muslims aren't terrorists, a lot of them support terror, and the ones who don't will be murdered with us infidels?
Labels: London, MSM, Muslims, Pope Benedict XIV, terrorism
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