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Posted on 06/10/2006 8:41:25 AM PDT by Dark Skies
In the words of one of my correspondents, "I have been going around trying to believe that we haven't been harbouring a Fifth Column, a blatant Fifth Column, and, lo, we have."
My reply to everyone in her condition is, now you know. And now that you do know, do not forget what you know.
The arrest of 17 alleged terror cell members around Toronto last weekend could not surprise anyone familiar with police and intelligence work in this area. We have been repeatedly warned that fanatical Islamists have been organizing, with a view to terror strikes -- not only abroad, but here. And as we should have observed already from England, and elsewhere in Europe, they have surprisingly little difficulty recruiting suicidal young Jihadis from the second and third generations of peaceful Muslim immigrants.
These are facts that we must face, one way or another. Pretending it's not happening, or that it will stop happening if we meet some fanciful demands (such as withdrawing from Afghanistan, or surrendering Andalusia), does not change the reality.
We should take pride that, working with their contacts throughout the West, our police and intelligence may very well have prevented the destruction of prominent public buildings, and the violent deaths of hundreds or thousands of innocent people. Prime Minister Harper was right to express satisfaction in this.
We should be prepared to express outrage at the apologists for fanatical Islam, who attempt to run interference on behalf of those arrested by raising specious counter-charges of "racism" and the like.
But get used to that. Intrinsic to the threat against the West is not terrorism, alone, but terrorism in combination with legal efforts to use the more fatuous provisions of our "human rights" codes to subvert our defences.
Still, be clear: this does not come from the Muslim majority, who have no desire whatever to be associated with acts and arguments that give Muslims a bad name. It comes from a small, determined, and disciplined community of religious fanatics. Appeasing them, as if they represented Muslims at large, only empowers these fanatics.
Nor hold it against "moderate" Muslims that few of them speak up. They are even more prey to the fear that is stalking the non-Muslim population, because they are closer to the threat. As I began my first column after the 9/11 attacks on the United States, "The purpose of terrorism is to terrify, so that the first response to it must be the Gospel response: 'Be not afraid'." This is what we should communicate to every decent Muslim. That we are in this together.
Do not listen to the nonsense that will be argued, increasingly, by the bed-wetters of the Left in our academic and media establishments, who blame the terror not on its perpetrators, but on their own domestic political opponents. In particular, now that Parliament has affirmed our troops will remain in Afghanistan until 2009, anyone who demands a quicker exit should be publicly labelled as the terrorists' stooge.
Accept, that we are going to be in this for a long time. From everything I know, I can tell you the arrests are not the end of the Islamist threat in Canada. Police have evidence of other cells operating; and conditions for Islamist recruitment among young Muslims in Canada, as throughout the West, continue to improve.
The threat -- both international and local -- is real, large, and growing. We remain at the point of deciding whether to defend against it with "sensitivity", or with vigour. "Both" is not an answer.
Let me repeat myself. Every time we show "sensitivity" by trying to appease the sort of people who would drive explosive-laden trucks into buildings, and machine-gun the survivors, the fanatics advance.
Thank God that our brothers and sisters in arms are finally coming to their senses.
And let me be "vigorous" in demanding that the islamonazis and their liberal allies show their "sensitivity" by kissing my black Irish a$$!
... "terrorism in combination with legal efforts to
use the more fatuous provisions of our "human rights"
codes to subvert our defences"...
or, "How the Left Operates" everywhere...
Why is it we never hear "Most KKK members never performed a lynching" or "Most Nazis never gassed any Jews" yet we're constantly bombarded with "Most Muslims aren't terrorists"? Methinks thou doth protest too much.
I can understand their fear, but I cannot support their cowardice. A Muslim who does not report a violent Islamist to the authorities is a collaborator, not someone to be pitied.
That "small, determined and disciplined community" are the true followers of the Qur'an; all the others are MINOs or apostate. None of them can ever be trusted because to lie for the advancement of Islam is encouraged.
Sensitivity is the key word here, both in what the author says and in a different context.
Our Western culture has become too sensitive in an engineering respect. A "sensitive circuit", for example, is prone to instability from a very slight outside source, like electro-magnetic noise in the air.
In that respect, our society has become too sensitive to disrupting influences. Who were these Canadian terrorists? They were a handful of men that hung around a shopping mall and cooked up a half-baked plan to do extreme damage to the country. How is it that our society allows such schemes to advance as far as they do? The fact that such plots make it as far as they do and cause so much damage when they're successful (e.g., 9-11-01) is indicative of a sensitive culture--we're able to be massively disrupted by the slightest shove.
The problem, of course, is the fifth column. Call it what you will--multi-culturalism, PC, diversity, et.al.--but it's eroding our society to the point that one day we will go down, and someday we won't be able to get back up again.
Yeah, they're so 'close to the threat' that they are the threat. What exactly is "moderate" islam, but muslims who practice a faith that reviles all other faiths and creates the front and the hiding place for the jihadists? Liberals are such prideful fools, even when their multi-cultural ideology is being proven to be dangerous to their own health and safety they can't give it up.
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All of the basic tenets of Mohammedanism: The mistreatment of women, the acceptance of multiple marriage, the admixture of church and state, and the inarguably "holy" writings which impel the followers to deceit and violence, are like fuel in a campfire.
And the violent young men who are displaced from the possibility of having normal male/female relations, or of an opportunity to find mates, will naturally allow themselves to become the flame of that fire. What other future is available to them?
It is not a religion. It is simply a swamp of lies. It cannot be reformed.
Those who have the misfortune of living near a swamp understand the dangers of snakes, alligators, infectious insects, and so forth. Only to those who will not see are these risks invisible. They are the ones who call such swamps "wetlands."
Good post!
In two consecutive paragraphs the writer points out 50% of the battle:
We should be prepared to express outrage at the apologists for fanatical Islam, who attempt to run interference on behalf of those arrested by raising specious counter-charges of "racism" and the like.
But get used to that. Intrinsic to the threat against the West is not terrorism, alone, but terrorism in combination with legal efforts to use the more fatuous provisions of our "human rights" codes to subvert our defences.
Then, also (coydog, I think this describes your pic well):
Do not listen to the nonsense that will be argued, increasingly, by the bed-wetters of the Left in our academic and media establishments, who blame the terror not on its perpetrators, but on their own domestic political opponents. In particular, now that Parliament has affirmed our troops will remain in Afghanistan until 2009, anyone who demands a quicker exit should be publicly labelled as the terrorists' stooge.
"Fire and Blood and Iron:"
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