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There’s something particularly poignant about news that at least 80 people were killed in Charsadda, Pakistan, by a Taliban attack on a police training center there. It isn’t that the event was so unique — except for one feature — but it is a suitable symbol of the situation in the Muslim-majority world today and how messed up is the Western perception of that part of the world.

The unique aspect is that the attackers said they are taking revenge for the killing of Usama bin Ladin by the United States.

And so as Americans cheer, 80 Pakistani families are in mourning. Let me quickly add that I do not blame the United States for this new mass murder. The crime is on the terrorists’ head. Nor do I believe the United States should not have killed bin Ladin. Not at all.

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But this is a teachable moment, so let’s summarize the lessons.

–Terrorism goes on. The death of one man or even of one organization won’t end it.

–Pakistan, albeit not to its credit, had nothing to do with the killing. In fact, major elements in the government protected bin Ladin while even more of the regime opposed the U.S. attack. Terrorists don’t kill people because their victims are “guilty” nor do they need a “good reason” for murder. Their reason is the attempt to stage a revolutionary transformation of their society which they believe is mandated by the will of God and also would give them wealth and power.

–If the United States had not killed bin Ladin on that particular day, in that place, or in that way, the Charsadda attack would have happened anyway. Thus, terrorists use specific events as excuses to do what they would have done anyway.

–The main cause of terrorism is not America (or Israel, or any other country) killing terrorists but revolutionary Islamism’s attempts to seize state power or attempts of those revolutionary Islamists (and their allies) already in power (see Iran, Syria, Hamas in Gaza, Hizballah in Lebanon, and perhaps soon the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt?) to overthrow neighbors.

–These policemen were targets not because they were oppressive instruments of capitalism or imperialism but because the revolutionaries want to destroy order so they can operate in a situation of anarchy which they hope to replace with their own rule.

–Most of the victims of terrorism are Muslim but those who proclaim their love of Muslims and of Third World people (the Western left and most Muslim activists there) couldn’t care less about these thousands of killings. Their only interest is to blame them on America, Israel, the West, or Islamophobia. In fact, they attempt to interfere with the battle against the terrorists and revolutionary Islamists, thus leading to the deaths of more Muslims.

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18 Comments, 12 Threads

  1. 1. GDI

    “[T]errorists use specific events as excuses to do what they would have done anyway.”

    Precisely. And that message needs to be front and center 24/7.

    We cower, they kill. We confront, they kill. We appease, they kill. We tolerate, they kill. Death is the only currency they understand.

  2. 2. Pragmatist

    What is really moronic is that the Lame Stream EneMedia and in fact virtually all of the media reports events such as this as backlash against the death of Usama. As though Mohammedans just did 9/11 then were peaceful and loving until they were roused up by the death of that wonderful guy Usama.Its just one more example of the Politically Correct, Multi Culti, Islamophile mindset of the Media and moonbats everywhere which will be the death of all of us because we cant name our enemy. Islam is at WAR with us and they declare it constantly and whats more PROVE it time and time again too .But moonbats still THINK they know Islam more than Mohammedans do.

  3. 3. Leatherneck

    “which they believe is mandated by the will of God.”

    Sir,

    The above statement is not correct. It should read, “which they believe is mandated by the will of the god.”

    Allah is a purly Arabic word meaning the god, not G-d. The god is not the G-d of Noah, Moses, or Abraham. History has shown the god, one of 360 gods at the Kabba is the moon god Sin. Allah Akbar means the god is greatest of all other gods at the kabba. Please correct me if I am wrong.

    Thank you for allowing my post.

    • Pragmatist

      Allahu akbar, does NOT mean “God is great.” In Arabic, “God” = Allah and “great” = kabeer.
      Allahu means “My/Our God” and akbar means “greater.”
      Allahu akbar, therefore, means “My/Our God is greater [than yours].”

      It is one of the most revealing aspects of Islam which exposes it for exactly what it is a CONFRONTATIONAL, SUPREMACIST CULT

      When a Muslim gunman shouts this, he is being very clear about his motive: jihad, the holy struggle to defend Islam by killing infidels. So apart from confirming that this Terrorist Act was Mohammedan in nature it also exposes the reality of Islam because if THEIR god is greatest then there must be perforce other ‘lesser’ Gods. Which reveals Islams Polytheistic roots it also reveals the confrontational and supremacist nature of Islam. Needless to say the Mohammedans are very happy that the moronic moonbats and the Islamophile, antisemitic Lame Stream EneMedia continue to mistranslate it as “God is Great” as this also gives them the opportunity to say that their God ‘the moon God allah’ is the same as your God which is patently and clearly insane.
      The Mohammedan God is an evil , self contradictory, illogical, violent,misogynistic, vengeful , antisemitic, Arab supremacist God (don’t believe me just look its all in the Koran) and totally unlike the Christian and Jewish God.
This is yet another consequence of the idiotic moonbat Wests Multi Culti, Islamophile, Political Correctness and “Yuman Rites” culture which is killing us and protecting THEM.

      Islam is the doctrine found in the Koran, Sira (Mohammed’s biography) and the Hadith (his traditions). The Koran does not have enough information in it to be a Muslim. The bulk of Islamic doctrine is taken from the Sunna of Mohammed (found in the Sira and the Hadith). All of the Sharia is based on Koran, Sira and Hadith, the Trilogy.
      The odd fact about the Islamic doctrine is that most of it is not about how to be a Muslim, but instead, the majority of it is about the non-Muslim, the Kafir. For instance, 64% of the Koran deals with Kafirs, which is not religious in nature, since none of the Kafir doctrine can be about religion, since the Kafir is strictly excluded from any aspect of the religion of Islam. The Islamic doctrine about Kafirs is purely political, hence it is Political Islam. The long and short of it is: forget about the religion of Islam unless you are a Muslim. Keep your eye on Political Islam if you are a Kafir.
      One of the ways Political Islam manifests is jihad. To show how extensive jihad is in the Trilogy, consider that 31% of the Trilogy deals with jihad. Jihad is not just a verse or two; it is a major part of the Islamic political doctrine.
      But our media shows us that they do not have any access to any expertise about Islam. There are no facts, just opinions. Fact-based reasoning does not deal with personal denigration of the opponent. Anyone who does not agree with the doctrine of ignorance as found in the media, the classroom and the pulpit is a bigot. Fact-based reasoning deals with the facts of the doctrine. However, our media “pundits” and apologists are not able to even define Islam, much less hold a fact-based discussion.
      Here is the rule: if there is no mention about the Trilogy of Koran, Sira and Hadith, then it is just another opinion and is not factual. Shouldn’t we demand that our reasoning be based on facts?

    • chuck

      “which they believe is mandated by the will of God.”

      This might be closer to the truth than it first appears. It just might be that this evil is what fills the void when people turn from the God of Noah, Abraham and Moses. It would then be mandated by the absence of the will of God.

    • sablegsd

      allah= satan.

  4. 4. Victor

    The event is irrelevant to fundamental American interests

    America needs jobs at home, political alignment, and a highly technically educated and healthy population.

    We dole out $100 billion per year in Afgan

    And many $ Billions more to Pakistan, Israel and Egypt with no ROE

    Enough is enough–no more handouts to foreign leeches and parasites

    What happened in Pak is a tragedy for their families–but it is not a US problem

    We need to invest all that money in America, we need jobs, we need to deal with threat from a narco-corrupt state on our border-Mexico and we need to gear up for the threat from China

    Most of all we need to develop our US economy and bring down our debt.

  5. 5. Marc Malone

    This carnage is collateral damage, just like in any war. Both sides shoot at each other, and the civilians get caught in the crossfire. yeah, I know they get specifically targeted, but it is still just a means of striking at the other side in the propaganda war. They cannot win on the battlefield, so they have to subdue our will to fight.

    “Oh, the Humanity!” You know what? I just no longer care. They were just killing more Muslims. Good for the terrorists. Let’s recommend some more targets for them. We do not want less of them killing their own. We want more of it.

    Iraq started stabilizing when folks got tired of the carnage and the funerals of their loved ones. The Iraqi army started really fighting when the folks got tired of the carnage. Wars end when people get tired of the carnage of war. They can only take so much, so give it to them… good and hard.

  6. 6. Carol

    I did not expect much better from them. I have read several sources that write that Pakistan founded the Taliban to protect them from India. I do not know if this is true, but I will try to find the first source. They kill for any reason, everyday. If we took Osama alive they’d try to ransom him or give him a trial in the US with all the libs behind it. I think those Hollywood libs have been quiet but don’t pay attention to them. They could be in an uproar but I haven’t heard nor care what actors think.

    • Pragmatist

      I think you will find that the Afghani Taliban were founded by the Pakistani ISI at the request of the USA to fight the Russian invaders by proxy. Unfortunately the USA did not CONTROL the situation nor understand the real nature of ISLAM and the corrupt devious lying nature of Pakistanis . Which is why we have the current situation.

  7. 7. eon

    Recently there was a minor to-do in Pakistan about a young woman who was raped, and (under sharia law) condemned to death for having brought dishonor on her family in being raped.

    The to-do wasn’t because she was sentenced to die. It was because a senior Pakistani police official stated that it was wrong to execute her for someone else’s crime, i.e., the rapist, who also under sharia law was not charged with anything. The presumption in that body of law being that men are supreme, and if “tempted” by a woman cannot be held responsible for their actions.

    The reaction was predictable, to anyone who has observed Islamic culture over time. The official was promptly murdered, and the killer claimed he was justified in doing so because the official (a devout Muslim) had “insulted Islam”.

    And equally predictably, he was hailed as a hero of the faith, and not charged with any crime.

    The distinction between “radical Islam” and the “mainstream” variety the President speaks of is very difficult to discern at times. Especially in Pakistan.

    clear ether

    eon

  8. I’d like to know how the Taliban can justify killing 80 Pakistanis (not to mention how many wounded) as revenge for killing bin Laden? After all, it has been made clear to the world that Pakistan had no part in the killing of bin Laden, so why kill Pakistanis? If anything, this should convince the Pakistanis to throw in their lot to our cause in defeating the Taliban, rather than yelling at us to leave. Well, if these are the “friends” Pakistan wants to have, the very people who kill them by the thousands (if you add up all of the other terrorist attacks committed by the Taliban in Pakistan), then have fun with them. Maybe this will convince them who Pakistan’s real enemies are.

    • Cynic

      A few months back around the time after the Qur’an burning pastor’s media appearance the Taliban killed some 40 Pakistanis and injured more than 60 in a double suicide bombing of a Muslim shrine.

      Because a holy book was burned in the States; because OBL’s days were numbered?

    • sablegsd

      The are inbred mush melons. They can’t learn. All they know how to do is kill, rape, stone, behead, etc. Sub human. Neanderthals. No, less developed than neanderthals.

      allah is satan, mohammed (piss be upon him) was his lunatic prophet.

      NO ONE can get along with these koranimals, not even themselves.

      They are a crap stain on the fabric of humanity. They need to be bleached out.

  9. Islam is like a two headed snake. But, to kill it you’d have to eliminate both the Quran and Allah. Good luck with that!
    They embrace death for their religion and Allah, so just give it to them. They will exact their attacks anyway.
    Their high priest (Bin Laden), and ours (Obama), plus their disciples, actually want the same thing; Domination of the masses. They both preach in the same fashion, but, in different languages.
    Decisive victories over both of these demons is required for people to remain free.

  10. 10. logdon

    Could this be the Achilles heel of a Muslim inferiority complex and the mental illiteracy which drives it? Where, lost for an intellectual argument, they resort to brute force and wholesale slaughter.

    Add in a constant state of infantile arrested development and the mosaic builds.

    We can see the pattern of a combination of envy and a thin skin which transforms that envy into acute enmity and projection.

    This is then fed by the constant hate filled exhortatians of imams, meaning essentially, that they are kept within a permanent condition of belligerent ignorance.

    They, knowing nothing else because knowing and questioning is anathema within the confines of Islam, believe those howling bearded ones to the letter and the spiral begins.

    Add in the massive illiteracy rates and a picture further develops.

    It then gets worse. Much worse.

    Instead of the logic of looking inwards and repairing the fault, they are bound by the immutability and so called perfection of the Koran into blaming others.

    A kind of double helix comes into play

    They are superior because the Koran tells them so.

    However by any yardstick it is clear that the West beats them hands down whether in technology, culture, freedom, earning capacity or living standard.

    Thus an inferiority complex grows, creating a mental clash. Which is it to be?
    Superior or second rate? The two cannot be reconciled and thus another solution must be offered.

    That basically is to blame the West and its perceived agents. And that is where we stand now.

    Unfortunately helping them via aid or sharing is a patent failure because it either reinforces the perception of inferiority or is regarded as a right of jizya.

    So, what to do with this bawling, homicidal infant?

    It’s telling that following the massive defeats in Europe and then colonisation Islam retreated into itself. And into the geographical confines of its conception. All was quiet on the Eastern Front for centuries.

    It seems to me that this is the only way to tame this monster.

    We have to confine them. We have to ringfence our precious liberties. We have to abandon multiculturalism and our generous pluralistic attitudes. We have to end our insane immigrant welfare programmes. (In Denmark, for instance over fifty percent of benefit payments go to two percent of the population. They are Muslim immigrants.)

    It’s clear that sharing with the kuffar is an unknown concept within Islam and all our so called outreach is both scorned as weakness or trampled upon as a foothold for further encroachment.

    This encroachment is encouraged by a liberal entity and is growing like topsy within the Obamafied US whilst paradoxically Europe is now emerging from the self defeating torpor.

    The names Geert Wilders, Thilo Sarrazin, Elisabeth Sabbaditch Woolf, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Kurt Westergaard, Flemming Rose, Marine Le Pen, Lars Hedegaard and many others spring to mind.

    All is not lost. Meanwhile let the Muslims wallow in their inferiority and associated killing. Just as long as they do it within the confines of Dar el Islam, that’s fine by me.

  11. “The attacks will continue until the morale declines!”

  12. 12. johnt

    But, but islam is the Religion of Peace, was I lied to ? I know it’s strange, but the media, which never lies, has informed me that it’s American Christians who don’t even have points on their drivers license who are the threats. I better check that womens TV program, “The View” to get the straight scoop. :}

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