Suicide of the West

NRO ^ | 18 Aug 06

[rellimpank]

Denial is no longer a river in Egypt but a British pathology.

By Melanie Phillips

When America was attacked on 9/11 by Islamic jihadis, it was said that this was a doomsday wake-up call for the West. Within a short while, however, much of Britain decided that 9/11 was actually America’s fault and that Israel was at the core of the problem.

When Britain was attacked last year on 7/7 by Islamic jihadis, it was said that this was a doomsday wake-up call for the U.K. Within a short time, however, much of the country decided that it was Britain’s own fault on account of “Islamophobia” and the war in Iraq.

[vimto]

"By the time Britain finally works out just who are its allies and who are its enemies, it may well be too late."

The working man has worked it out. The media, parliament, police and judiciary have to catch up. Go Melanie - Go, Go,Go!!!!

[From One - Many]

then a federal judge decide America can't do non-warrant surveillance, and the terrorists said, "Another victory for our side, can now kill more infidels."

shezzzh...

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who don't.

[From One - Many]

Israel’s fight is the world’s fight. Lose Israel, and the world is lost.

the truth is ..... the world is attempting suicide....

[wideawake]

What I don't understand about the UK is that the BBC is a government corporation, yet it is allowed to seriously undermine the government's effectiveness in the war on terror.

The PM should just fire a ton of people at the BBC and replace them with Britons who don't hate their own country.

[rellimpank]

--the "Western" world--

[rellimpank]

---and PBS is---???

[DustyMoment]

Since Muslims whose minds are already bent by the propaganda of lies and hatred against America, Israel and the Jews pouring out of the Muslim world are further subjected by the BBC and other media outlets to daily — even hourly — diatribes about the evil of America, the evil of Israel and the fact that Britain is a patsy of evil America and evil Israel, who can possibly be surprised that untold numbers of impressionable young Muslims sign up to rid the planet of this apparent scourge?

She had me right up to this paragraph, then she went into her agenda. If the Muslim problem in Britain is caused by the BBC, how does she explain the Crusades?

[livius]

LOL! That sums it up.

[KillTime]

It will never be "too late" for the West, but the later the real wake up call, the bloodier the war will be.

[vimto]

The Crusades were the fault of ITV.

[uncbob]

James Burnam had a book out in the 60s SUICIDE OF THE WEST but he thought it would be the communists not Islam

[wideawake]

PBS' market share in evening news is about 0.5% nationwide.

I would guess that easily more than 50% of Britons get their TV news from the BBC.

[Fitzcarraldo]

[DustyMoment]

The Crusades were the fault of ITV.

Too funny!!! Good one, mate!!

[since 1854]

What is the point of your Photoshopping this Mecca image?

[PzLdr]

Try a series of military operations intent on RECOVERING Christian lands seized by military force by the Muslims over a period of some 400 years.

[gotribe]

Many of these young people live in a kind of cultural limbo, stranded between the repressive culture of the Asian subcontinent and the debauched and degraded culture of Britain. And the terrible message of the jihad is a siren song for those who have been abandoned in a psychic desert and who search for a meaning to their lives.

That's the usual media / socialist / revisionist BS. The media is doing a great disservice here in making terrorism symmetrical to other political or social movements. It is not. Terrorism is the deliberate killing of innocents for shock value, and it is a deliberate decision made by people who use it. There is no justification for its use, ever.

[Christopher Lincoln]

At the time of the Crusades, there were hardly any British Muslims.