Posted on 08/10/2006 3:28:06 PM PDT by Pokey78
BRITISH AUTHORITIES have been slow to acknowledge openly the Pakistani-Muslim background of the suspects arrested in the mass terror conspiracy that brought chaos to British and American airports Thursday. At first, official sources in the United Kingdom would confirm only that they were working with "the South Asian community" on the case; then it was disclosed that the Pakistani government was involved in the investigation.
This reticence in naming the focus of so significant a terrorism inquiry is a symptom of the larger problems of Islam in Britain, and of "Euro-Islam" more generally. Put plainly, Pakistani Sunnis in Britain--more than a million strong--are the most radical Muslims in Europe. British Islam is dominated by Pakistan-born clerics. It is saturated with extremist preaching, media, and charity efforts which support the recruitment of terrorists.
News from Pakistan itself indicates the main trail from there to Heathrow. British and Pakistani sources linked the plan to the Pakistani government's house arrest of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of the armed paramilitary movement Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET, or Army of the Righteous). LET, which is designated a terrorist organization by the State Department, is an ally of al Qaeda and is present wherever Pakistani Sunnis congregate and violence is hatched.
In America, LET was behind the Northern Virginia jihad network, whose members were jailed beginning in 2003 and sentenced to varying federal prison terms for terrorism-related acts. LET was also accused in the Bombay train bombings in India last month. It has significant resources in Pakistan, Britain, and elsewhere.
Yet notwithstanding the courage of Tony Blair, the British government appears paralyzed in dealing with this radical influence over British-Asian Muslims. Instead of confronting Pakistani-born extremist imams on British territory, the Brits organized a roadshow in their Muslim communities under the rubric of "the radical middle way"--an extraordinarily inept promotional conceit--in which young Muslims are called to renounce extremism.
The British and other media are referring to the arrested suspects in the airline conspiracy--as they did when bombs exploded in the London Underground last year--as "homegrown." If history is any guide, politicians will soon wring their hands and ask why people brought up in the West turned so violently against it. Leftists and isolationists will blame the war against terror for terror.
But the force that drives mosque congregants and their children to build bombs in Britain does not originate in social conditions experienced by Muslims in Europe. Rather, it represents a doctrine brought from the Arab world, via Pakistan and well-funded groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, to communities from Birmingham, England, to Fairfax, Virginia.
Britain must take off the blinders of political correctness when examining Islam in its Pakistani population and should insist on British training for Muslim clerics officiating on its soil.
Otherwise, London's 7/7 bombs and the latest transatlantic travel conspiracy could mark the emergence of Britain as the main theater of jihadist violence in Western Europe.
Good job Britain in stopping this attack, now wake up and smell the terrorists(phew, what a stink).
I know the brits are big sci-fi junkies, so I'll use an analogy from the world of science fiction...they need to Remember Captain Kirk's words about Klingons in Star Trek IV...or was it V...maybe VI...ahhh well...
They may. They may do it long before we do.
One man stands alone in the breach--George W. Bush. Tony Blair stands warily with him. But make no mistake about it. George W. Bush is the leader who has the fortitude and the guts enough to protect the United States and provide the leadership for the rest of the faltering hesitant Western democracies. Olmert's back is to the wall - it is life and death every day of every month in Israel. The insane Islamofascists must be defeated, wholly destroyed, there can be no accomodation.
Send ALL the bastards home --- quickly.
Or - treat them as the rabid dogs they mimic..
Semper Fi
Negative white population growth and unfettered socialism is a death wish.
There may be a hundred such plots being developed right now. Maybe a thousand. Actually, counting Iraq there are several coming to fruition every day. And increasing.
Stephen Schwartz is an American and a convert to Islam -- sufi variety, I think. Still, he is strongly anti-terrorist.
It's interesting. In the video all three former terrorists agree that it's a good thing to fight them in the mideast because the violence attracts them like flies to honey.
There were Klingons in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Is that any help?
The problem is with all kinds of islam.
It was in the "Undiscovered Country." where Kirk uttered the words "He never trusted Klingons and the Federation should let them die."
Today, I've seen many TV news commentators and reporters say that the reason Western born Muslims are angry enough to want to kill us, is because they are victims of racism and feel rejected by society. They say we need to help integrate them into our society. The problem with that is the fact that Radical Muslims don't want to be integrated into our society. They don't want to "integrate," they want to "dominate." Liberals are hopeless fools. They stand in the way of our taking action to preserve and protect our very lives. Their power and influence must be swept aside if we are to win the war with Islamic Nazism.
It's the 30's all over again ..... people better say OUTLOUD who the enemy is.
He's absolutely wrong about this point. The "social conditions experienced by Muslims in Europe" is one of the key influences in the rise of radical Islam there. One of the things it seems nobody wants to admit is that Europe's welfare culture is a prime breeding ground for this kind of sh!t because it allows these morons to live on public assistance in government-paid housing and go to these mosques every day instead of dragging their @sses out of bed and earning an honest living.
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