Do We Need a War on Terror?
(In this topsy-turvy world in which Israeli commandos are perceived as pirates, and terrorists and “aid workers” armed with clubs are seen as innocent victims, I thought I would share a speech I delivered to young students at a Hertfordshire college as part of the Institute of Ideas conference on the war on terror.)
I have agonized over how to address this major issue of our time to a young audience. It seems like yesterday I was your age. When I came to the UK, I was just 22. I am still living in the same tiny flat into which I moved when I was a graduate student! One minute you are 22, and the next minute you are, to use a Yiddish phrase, an alter gephumpheter of 56. That translates as old fogey. In fact, though it is still a few years away, I am counting the calendar pages until I get my senior citizen bus pass.
When I first came to this country, it barely resembled the Britain of today. In fact never have I seen a country alter itself as I have seen Great Britain do so in this generation gone by since my arrival in January 1976. When I was a student, you would be turfed off a bus if you spoke in a loud voice or made a noise; at the very least you would be reprimanded by the neatly dressed conductor. On the other side of the coin — literally — a bus ticket was sixpence and you could go upstairs and smoke to your heart’s delight. When I went to someone’s house for dinner I would be yelled at for using a fork to eat my cake. Behaving in a proper British manner was de rigeur. Multiculturalism was not on anyone’s agenda; my American accent made me very much a foreigner. In those day the iceman cameth, and the junk collector clattered into my mews once a week in his pony trap. Taxi drivers called my dad “guv’nor”; men tipped their hats to ladies.
Thirty-five years on, Britain is a brash, in-your-face multicultural cavalcade.
So, what has all of this to do with the war on terror? Let me explain: at last night’s “Question Time” at Queen’s School, there were many accusations being thrown about that had no foundation in fact, and what pained me was the idea that very young people, whose brains are like sponges, were not being provided with an historical perspective. So here is why I mentioned my early years in Britain: in the 1970s, the IRA — Irish Republican Army– dominated life in this country.
Wherever one went a bomb might go off. Although on most occasions the IRA sent warnings ahead of bombings, many civilians were killed on the British mainland. I will never forget my mother calling me from Philadelphia every time she heard a news flash on American TV saying a bomb had gone off in London.
I will never forget coming out of the Tesco supermarket in Church Street market and hearing an almighty boom — it was the Harrods bomb of December 1983. It was so massive that I heard it so many miles away. I will never forget sitting in my office at Anglia Television in Park Lane and being thrown from my chair when the bomb went off in Hyde Park. We were sent home from work that day, but when I got home my phone was ringing — it was my mum telling me another bomb had gone off in the bandstand in Regents Park.
When Lord Mountbatten was killed by the IRA in August 1979, my neighbor Dr. John Miles-Thomas stormed into my flat and berated me for “sponsoring terror!” Americans in Boston were funding IRA actions, and every American got it in the face at that time. And so on and so on. I have only limited time today to talk, but my point is that thirty years on I hardly think about the IRA anymore. U.S. Senator George Mitchell was instrumental in bringing the two sides to the table, and a rocky but remarkable peace was at last achieved after a hundred-year conflict.
All we have to do is keep that person, or those people, out of some Iranian prison for being a political dissident.
Easier said than done.
” “You know, Carol, many of these guys are just full of testosterone and have no outlet for that energy.””
One of the truest statements I have read anywhere about Muslim society. No country in its right mind should allow polygamy. It removes women from the pool of possible mates and leaves men without the possibility of companionship – sexual and social. The pool of terrorists is composed mainly of these unmarried men without nuclear family ties.
Suppose that for every 100 males 2 take 4 wives, 1 takes 3 wives, and 4 take two wives. Total number of women removed from the pool = 15. If each of the 7 men took only one wife, then the pool would be reduced only by 7. The difference is 8. Therefore, of every 100 men 8 would be without the possibility of marriage. These men represent threats to the men who took multiple wives. Therefore, the mechanism for ridding the community of them is Jihad, where captured women can take up the slack or the men can simply die in battle.
Muslim societies in which polygamy is less practiced are less likely to support active Jihad; where there is more polygamy, Jihad is emphasized. Compare Malaysia to Saudi Arabia. If the assumptions of the rate of polygamy are more or less accurate and polygamy were evenly spread over the Muslim world, their 1 billion population would leave an available army of 80,000,000 for a Jihadi “activities”.
You’ve fingered the crux that everyone avoids.
The Koran is a civic instruction, not metaphysical.
Polygamy does all you say: women get ‘meat-ed’ out to the elites (four wives and unlimited concubines).
This intentionally creates a society bottom-heavy with young frustrated men to whom the law denies even masturbation, let alone homosexuality.
The elites get a testosterone-laden source of crazy combatants for their protection.
The Seventh Century lives today and Western governments patronize it.
so what’s your take on the ever growing gender balance problem in china? they’ve had a generation of killing girl babies and suddently their sons have grown up with not enough daughters to pair off with. women are being kidnapped as brides because there are so many more men than women. (gee, all those girls they didn’t want, somehow became very desirable.) so far, they haven’t been blowing other people up.
34,000,000 excess boys by 2020 will have a huge impact on China and maybe everyone else also. Thank God it’s a different culture where religious martyrdom isn’t encouraged.
My take on China is the same. Men without access to family life will dedicate themselves to other causes. It is indeed the case that there has been more talk in recent years in army circle about China’s willingness to go to war – with somebody, anybody, over anything. Fortunately, much of their energies are going into “growth.”
The same analysis holds for various groups in Africa. Where polygamy is widely practiced, there are more internecine conflicts.
Same is true in prison, but there of course there are complicating issues.
No bourgeois family life, more pathological violence. That is why it is beyond stupid to break down family life, as the Left is prone to support.
what in the world was that? no war on terror?
without it, where would the u.s. be? they would be like israel, with enemies on all sides raining missiles down on them.
look what al-queda did without the u.s. breathing down its neck. they cant do that now.
huessein (saddam not barak) gassed his own people and killed and tortured hundreds of thousands more. he cant do that anymore either.
is the situation great? no. but its been a hellava lot worse. theres more to say but i am too lazy to type.
Anywhere people have no future and no family there will be upheaval. Whether it is in India or rural China with female infanticide, Fundamentalist Muslim countries, or in any place where raising a family does not appear to be promising, people will want to fight.
Here’s the thing: Some places have demagogues who organize this discontent in to a paramilitary force. Others have peace makers who help to build a better society.
The question is how do we identify the demagogues and make them irrelevant? Answer that, and then we can fix an awful lot of poverty.
Yeah right…where are all the Hindus and Chinese flying passenger filled airliners into skyscrapers? Where are all the Hindu and Chinese homicide/suicide bombers? Where are all the Hindu and Chinese terrorists perpetrating terrorist attacks all around the world on a daily basis? Whatever you are smoking, I don’t want any of it.
The Chinese people have a terrible history of barbarism once strictures are lifted.
I will never forget a piece on TV showing how criminals were executed in Communist China. A group of executioners were each assigned a column of victims. They started at the same time putting bullets in the backs of the heads of the kneeling prisoners and ran down the column executing each one in turn.
Few humans are immune from murderous behavior once they believe that it is the “right” thing to do. Even “OK” can be permission enough. “He stepped on my property!” “He ‘dissed’ me!” Please recall the Stanley Milgram experiments of the 1960s and ’70s.
It is for the foregoing reason – permission – that Islam, not Muslims, is to blame for jihadi behavior. The historical religion gives Muslims permission to subjugate and kill.
AMEN.
The problem is ISLAM.
And how could anyone expect otherwise, given that its founder was a rapist, torturer, enslaver, murderer, robber, polygamist and pedophile?
Sounds like she’s spent too much time in England, and it’s rubbed off.
Some of the greatest acts of terror of all time have been those perpetrated in the name of Christianity and against Jews: the medieval blood libels in this country; the shameful York massacre — to this day, Jews will not reside in York — and the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290.
ReallY? Then learn about the anti-Jewish pogroms in Granada in 1055 by Muslims. That is over two centuries before the pogroms in York. And learn that during the Almoravid and Almohad invasions Jews were fleeing to Christian Spain one of whose kings before a battle he couldn’t afford to lose, choose to dismiss over twenty thousand North-European crusaders because of their behavior against his Jewish subjects. That another had jewish ministers and that unlike what happened in islamic countries they had not to pretend conversion in order to prevent an insurrection against the king?
Bat Y’eor (herself an oriental Jew) tells that the legend about Muslim tolerance was spread by “Christian” Jews not by those living under Muslim rule. We could also remind that there are no Jewish success stories in Muslim countries. The Rotschilds and alike, all of them, lived in Christian countries.
A key point is that pogroms, abuse and discrimination in Muslim countries have fallen out of our euro-centric and christian-centric history.
The Crusades were a defensive reaction to the Jihad of that time. Speaking of which, there was no mention of Jihad in this article. It’s gone on for 1400 years. And finally, ‘hope’ is not a strategy: “Young terrorists feel they have to wage their own war because their leaders have failed them. What the world needs, and most particularly the Arab and “Palestinian” entity, is exceptionally inspiring and forgiving leaders — the likes of Lincoln, Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Mandela, and Gandhi. Then there will be no need for a war on terror.”
When the Muslim Gandhi comes around, we’ll welcome him. And how do you explain Iran and Saudi Arabia. The Leaders are the Jihadis. The Leaders are the terrorists and funders of terror. If the young men full of testosterone believed that their leaders failed them, why aren’t they attacking those leaders instead of innocent infidels?
I disagree. You MUST take religious motivation into accont with terrorism. Its not testosterone. When I need to release pentup energy I masturbate. I don’t go and blow people up! This is all about killing the Jews and the Christians. It will not stop until either Islam is destroyed or we are. The IRA just wanted sovereignty for Ireland. Islamic terrorists want the complete genocide of all nonmuslims. Theres a big difference in motivation and context when dealing with Islamic terrorism. You can’t go off and assume that its any other reason like hormones.
This is one of the most superficial and poorly-reasoned posts that I’ve ever read at PJ media.
“What the world needs, and most particularly the Arab and “Palestinian” entity, is exceptionally inspiring and forgiving leaders — the likes of Lincoln, Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther”
Reminds me of the story of the engineer and the mathematician who were trapped at the bottom of a deep, dark well, with absolutely vertical and slippery sides. The engineer was in despair, but the mathematician was cheerful and optimistic.
“How on earth do you think we’re ever going to get out of here?” asked the engineer.
“It’s easy,” responded the mathematician. “Assume a ladder.”
That’s funny
It must be kept in mind that in most Arab Islamic countries and even in Iran, over half the population is below the age of 24. This is huge pool of young people, half of them men, who are poorly educated, impoverished, full of hatred for the West and even their own governments, and who are looking for a way out of their really dire predicament. Since they really have no hope at all of improving their situation, some are willing to accept the dreams of glory the terrorist leaders preach to them and others find a religious expression in terrorist acts against Jews, Christian, Hindus, etc.
The other problem is that much of the Western world was willing to excuse, justify, or explain away Islamic terror as long as that terror was largely confined to the Middle East and the attacks like suicide bombings were targetting Israelis and Jews.
The West now has to confront it’s own Islamic terrorist enemies many of whom are homegrown and it has no idea what to do. Indeed, the West has condemned practically every single Israeli act of self defence or act of prevention against Moslem terrorists to the point where almost no counter terrorist act is even possible.
I can see how you feel, Ken: “…the West has condemned practically every single Israeli act of self defence or act of prevention against Moslem terrorists to the point where almost no counter terrorist act is even possible.”
But this statement confuses the media of the West with the people of the West. Many of us have been and still are with you all the way, especially when it comes to your safety, self-defense, and continued existence as a nation.
This is huge pool of young people, half of them men, who are poorly educated, impoverished, full of hatred for the West and even their own governments, and who are looking for a way out of their really dire predicament. Since they really have no hope at all of improving their situation, some are willing to accept the dreams of glory the terrorist leaders preach to them and others find a religious expression in terrorist acts against Jews, Christian, Hindus, etc.
This is a variation of the American Left’s explanation for terrorism. Hatred for the U.S. (and they would probably extend this to some extent to Israel), and attacks against it, this narrative goes, is the result of material want in the Middle East, which is caused by the material excesses of the American lifestyle. It’s really just a familiar extension of the the same people’s explanation of inner-city crime.
The fact that despotism and fundamentalism–in their politics, in their religion, in their families–pervades Muslim society is ignored. The existence of American largess to the Muslim world (and everywhere else) is not recognized.
The fact is that a suicide bomber is much more likely to be a comparatively well-educated and wealthy member of Muslim society, not one of the desperate poor.
Yes, we in the West have turned a completely blind eye to all the terrorist attacks around the world. India, for example, has been the #1 victim of Muslim terror attacks. Our media are too shallow and silly and self-absorbed to cover these things. Thank God for the Internet.
This site: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com runs a daily tally of attacks and casualties of Muslim terror worldwide, going back years, and with full details of each attack. The first time I visited this site, I was shocked to read about all the attacks that occur every day, day after day, in dozens of countries, that we never hear about in our stupid media. For example, last week, June 3-9, there were 40 Islamic terror attacks worldwide, leaving 276 people dead and 595 critically injured. The attacks were in countries all over Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa, including Pakistan, Thailand, India, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Kosovo, Bosnia, Chechnya, Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda and Algeria.
It is a genuine WAR, folks, and it is global. We may not choose to think of it as a war, but you can be damn sure THEY do–and that’s what really matters, because that means THEY are going to keep fighting–until either they defeat us, or we defeat them.
No, we need a war on islam.
Islam. Not terror. We have to return the favor of their mad hatred for everything infidel. That of course will not happen until jihadists manage to plant a nuclear bomb in an American city. But after the bomb explodes the inevitable war with Islam, not terror, will commence.
I’ve said for years that we need a new policy regarding response to a nuclear strike.
On hearing of a strike, we will immediately launch missile’s on Mecca and the capital of north Korea. We won’t wait to “determine” who actually did it because we will probably never be able to prove that conclusively anyway. If these countries don’t want to be hit, they need to start working to ensure that those groups that are under their control, never strike at the US.
On hearing about a second strike. We go from two missiles to 8. Working our way down through the capital’s and leading economic resources of the various countries known to harbor groups hostile to the US.
And so on.
“We will immediately launch missiles on Mecca and North Korea”??? What do you mean, “will”? What makes you so certain? I cannot in a million years imagine Barack Hussein Obama ever doing either of those things.
No list of terrorists could be complete without George W. Bush, and not to be outdone, Obama is causing more civilian deaths in Afghanistan than Shrub ever dreamed of, because of its military and oil-mineral location, of course, but probably because he thinks the more collateral damage he causes among Muslims, the more Americans will give up the notion he is a Muslim. As we Americans say, fat chance. The testosterone theory is pretty silly. It’s about greed, both for material things and for the sheer joy of wielding power. And I don’t mean the greed of the populace, the citizenry… just the ruling class and rulers.
Give me a break!
So Bush is a terrorist? Which Bush do you mean? You mean the one who liberated Kuwait from the attacks of Saddam or the one who liberated Iraq from the mad tyrant Saddam? Oh and this oil you speak of, I don’t see any of it around here, do you? One more question, my friend in pink, what in the bloody hell are you talking about?
Get out your smelling salts, or purchase some, because the Bush I administration practically invited Saddam to invade Kuwait. Look up- or, if you can’t read, have someone assist you, these words: “April Glaspie Ambassador Saddam Hussein invade” and if you didn’t know, Bush 2 invaded (we used to say liberated here in the states, but no more) Iraq because 1) Saddam
nationalized Iraq’s oil (it has since been privatized again by the major
oil concerns), and 2) although it hasn’t thoroughly been proved, Bush 2 believed Saddam put a hit out on Bush 1. If you reminded Bush 2 that he got the whole world, it seemed, involved in a family feud between the Bushes and the Husseins with the result being hundreds of thousands of people killed, displaced, and still living with scant water and electricity, he would no doubt ask, “and your point is?” You are an old-fashioned nincompoop, calling a conservative like myself pink, but then the politicians in every nation need sheep-like mentalities like yours or they’d never get elected, much less carry out their self-centered agendae. Now, if I were a betting woman, I would say you are going to reply with some naughty name-calling, but no facts or evidence.
And the fact that Saddam ignored for many years the resolitions passed in the UN? We see now how countries that ignore the UN sanctions still pursue (Iran) nuclear weapons, and don’t care what the world says. He had so many violations against all the rules imposed after the first Gulf war.
But this is about oil and payback for Dad? The proof lies where? The WMD’s that were moved out of Iraq have been located in Syria, many articles about this have been published since, yet, you seem not to believe them. I have talked with quite a few soldiers that returned from Iraq, and they tell me how the people are much happier with their current lives than the lives they lived under Saddam.
ANd don’t worry, I’ll leave the name-calling to you.
Henriette, you’re a “conservative”? Oh, I get it, one of those conservatives like Pat Buchanan and Mel Gibson! Ugh. Maybe you thought we wouldn’t notice, but your anti-semitism is showing. And it is butt-ugly.
Well, naturally anyone who tells you something you don’t want to hear is an anti-semite. It hardly matters whether the person has expressed any opinion whatsoever on the topic of Jews, Judaism, or Israel. I even forgot how I stumbled on to this site- (I am on the internet a lot)- but it’s not my cup of tea. It’s too touchy-feely, not fact and logic-based. Perfect example: did even one person here know that Bush I had his ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, ENCOURAGE Saddam to invade Kuwait, giving him (Bush) an excuse to
go to war? I mentioned it earlier, and it’s very easy to verify. Here’s another tidbit: every time Bill Clinton got into deeper doo-doo during Monicagate and impeachment, he bombed Saddam more, to divert attention. All three- Bush I, Clinton, and Bush 2
knew Saddam was no threat to us. America propped him up and supplied him
with weapons, but then he got too uppity and nationalized Iraq’s oil. So
then it was time for him to go.
Before I go, here’s a rhetorical question: Mel Gibson is a ranting fool, emotion-based, ignorant, knowing little and unwilling to learn anything his emotions can’t fathom. How are the posters here substantially different?
Oh, brother. Not the April Glaspie thing again. I can’t speak for others but I for one know all about it, and it is absolutely ludicrous to assert that she “encouraged” Saddam (your words) to invade Kuwait. In a long meeting, she spoke in vague generalities about the Kuwait/Irag border dispute being an “Arab problem”. Which it was, until Saddam internationalized it by sending a huge army across the border and taking ALL of Kuwait instead of just the disputed region. In Saddam’s mind, Glaspie’s statements may have been interpreted as an indication that the US would not interfere with his annexation of Kuwait. But that was just one of many stupid mistakes by Saddam Hussein. The US is not responsible for the stupidity of others. That is one of the favorite tactics of leftists, to argue that not only is the US responsible for its mistakes, it is also responsible for the mistakes of everyone else. No sale here! Try Kos or Huffington.
Since when did killing people who are trying to kill you, become the definition of terrorism?
If you are concerned about civilian deaths, you need to blame the jihadists who deliberately hide amongst the civilians.
Then again, you aren’t interested in accuracy.
Carol, I have read and enjoyed all of your columns before, but this time you disappoint me. Your lack of understanding of the root causes of the Crusades, combined with your PC need to “equalize” all atrocities and those who commit them combined to turn a promising piece into just so much rubbish!
I’m looking forward to a better job next time!
To claim that the Holocaust was “perpetrated” in the name of Christianity, as your paragraph above implies, is inane.
It is also symptomatic of historical foodfights which explains why the world is where it is today, and may not be an appropriate instructional tool for children. Best to keep it in the animal house, we all know and love, the Higher Education of the Ivy Tower.
Regardless of the cause of the Crusades, it is beyond dispute that the Crusaders wiped out numerous Jewish communities en route to the Holy Land, for no other reason except that the Jews were Jews. It is also undisputed that Crusaders made life for Jews in the Holy Land even worse than Muslims did. Taking note of these facts does not require ignoring Muslim oppression against Jews.
But Carol — Oslo was on the verge of success when Amir murdered Rabin? We know now what many suspected then — that Arafat yemach shmo never intended to make peace, and always intended Oslo as a cover for ever greater acts of terrorism and murder. That Amir committed a despicable act of murder does not change the facts. The death rate from terrorism kept rising after Oslo. Rabin’s insistence on blaming the terrorism on people who wanted to kill the peace process, and not on people who wanted to use the peace process as cover to kill Jews, fueled much of the sentiment against him.
The comment about Rabin and the verge of peace is just way off base. Arafat had begun the bus bombing campaigns before Rabin’s murder; at least 75 Israelis died in three bus explosions before the assassination; in proportional terms, this is the same as if 3000 Americans died = the WTC number of victims.
Rabin was having grave doubts about Oslo. Regarding Yigal Amir, he committed a crime assuming he acted alone and without manipulation from others. That is far from clear if you study the circumstances of the event and what preceded it, including Amir’s friendship with a Shabak (Shin Bet) asset called Avishai Raviv. But we won’t go there.
david foster is correct
terrible article- unfactual, wishful thinking, apples and oranges
no youth is not the reason for JIHAD
nor poverty
anti Americanism is LEARNED, Promoted and nurtureed by …………………fill in the blank
DUH
Carol: I am shocked by this article… you went from hating and bashing muslims to all of a sudden promoting peace with them!! and also where did you move from to England when you were 22 years old? and now you have been there almost 30 years and constantly complaining about the British anti semetism?
Carol,
‘thirty years on I hardly think about the IRA anymore’
Maybe you should.
These are only a fraction of the attacks by the Real I.R.A and the Continuity I.R.A in the last six months.
A car bomb has been exploded outside Newtownhamilton police station, injuring two people.
A car bomb also has been defused outside Newtownhamilton police station in south Armagh on Tuesday 13 April.
A bomb in a hijacked taxi explodes outside Palace Barracks in Holywood on Monday 12 April – the day policing and justice powers are transferred to Northern Ireland.
On 12 April, the Real IRA leaves a no-warning car bomb outside MI5′s Northern Ireland headquarters at Palace Barracks in Holywood, County Down.
Dissident republicans were also blamed for leaving a car containing a 400lb bomb outside the Policing Board’s headquarters in Belfast.
600lb bomb left near the Irish border in south Armagh was intended to kill its officers
Real IRA claimed responsibility for placing two explosive devices near the homes of a policeman’s relatives.
March 2009,
Two young soldiers were shot dead as they collected pizzas outside Massereene Barracks in County Antrim.
Sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey were killed just hours before they were due to be deployed to Afghanistan.
Within 48 hours a policeman, Stephen Carroll, was shot dead in Craigavon.
He was the first police officer to be murdered in Northern Ireland since 1998.
Our security services have reported these terrorists are a bigger threat then Islamic groups.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGhmjTwzUno
Other Americans are still thinking about the I.R.A.
In 2008, Peter King spoke in defense of bail for a fugitive IRA member, convicted terrorist Pól Brennan, who had escaped from prison in the UK .
“My experience dealing with (Irish) republicans is that they don’t jump bail in THIS country. They honor their commitments.”
‘ to young, extremely unreceptive students in England.’
Maybe they were unreceptive because the speech being given was mis informed
and inaccurate.
If it was muslims doing this then i am sure people including you would know about it.
More killing, please. Jesus wants a BIG finish.
That’s not what Christians say, and you know it. Quit with the priggish faux self-righteousness already.
Nice moral equivalence Carol. Never mind that the prevalence of Islamic inspired terrorism is unprecedented in history and directly coincides with the amount of wealth that has been transferred to the Dar al Islam since the 70s thanks to oil. You’ve been living in the UK for way too long.
Aint multiculturalism wonderful?
Lets bring in a bunch of Third Worlders and encourage them to remake parts of the British Isles into the image of their Third World shitholes. And anyone who objects is made into a racist pariah, with serious economic consequences for any bugger brave enough to speak aloud plain common sense obviousness.
Brilliant!
To mention Mandela and Franklin D. Roosevelt in the same breath is appaling. FDR embraced Communism and would have loved to see America turn into another Soviet Union. He also send Russians that went over to the other side back to the USSR after he promised them that they would be safe in the US.
Even so Apartheid in South Africa did exist, Mandala was imprisoned for murdering children in a school group. His wife is notorious for hating anyone who is not of their tribe and Mandala is a member of a party that is Communist and was funded by the KGB. South Africa primarily was all about getting control of natural resources, therefore it had to fall just or unjust.
You know what frustrates me the most about Islam-appeasers? They seem to not give one teeny tiny little iota about the lives of WOMEN. Don’t they ever stop to look at, and think about, the actual lives of real, flesh-and-blood women under Islam? They are living HELL.
Read Phyllis Chesler’s book “The Death of Feminism”
http://www.amazon.com/Death-Feminism-Struggle-Womens-Freedom/dp/1403968985
and
Wafa Sultan’s book “A God Who Hates”
http://www.amazon.com/God-Who-Hates-Courageous-Inflamed/dp/0312538359/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279085379&sr=1-1
It is indeed sad that in the time that has passed since I delivered the above talk violence has once more erupted in Northern Ireland.
http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/children_riot_in_violent_n_ireland_marches
Carol, IF you truly believe that Yigal Amir was the worst of the worst, and that IF not for him Oslo would have ushered in ‘peace’ in the Middle East, then I guess living in jolly old Britain has had its intended effect on your sensibilities.
How is it possible, that AFTER so many dead Jews wrought by Oslo that you point to Amir as the worst of the worst? Is it because the assasination of a national leader is the only measure of peace or no peace? Further, what about the proven ! inconsistencies between Amir as the fall guy,instead of the shooter, and who exactly was behind this assasination? After all, Amir was part of the Shabak, akin to the US FBI.Curiouser and curiouser….
Besides, Oslo was NEVER meant to usher in peace, it was meant to give Israel enough room to hang itself, giving up its heartland and eternal Capital in the process.Moreover, Husseni(a relative of the notorious Mufti of Jerusalem, Hitler’s Muslim collaborator) was one of the first who let the cat out of the bag about Oslo. He infamously noted, (and I paraphrase)that Arafat was busy hoodwinking the peace obsessed west (with Israel’s hallucinatory, corrupt leftists in tow) while the PLO/PA/Fatah etc were busy sowing the seeds for a violent overthrow of Israel.Peace, I think not.
Carol, it would behoove you to bone up on Oslo, rather than opining about a ‘peace’ which was ruined by Amir. Perhaps you also believe that Sharon’s visit to the Mount was also Israel’s fault, and NOT pre-engineered by Arafat?
There is no ‘War on Terror’.
There is a ‘War of Terror’.
It is THE ISLAMIC WORLD WAR.
It is Dar al-Islam against Dar al-Harb (the rest of us).
It is a war against anyone and anything anywhere that is not Islamic.
It is an existential war of global dominion and Islamic supremecy.
THE ISLAMIC WORLD WAR
~ The Infidel Alliance
“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers” – Islamist Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Res ipsa loquitur.
~ The Infidel Alliance
I notice that there is objections to Carol’s article here.
That must mean you are all young and un recepitive at least or violent jihadi jew haters as Carol states people, at this seminar who were objecting to her views are.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/in-an-england-suburb-teaching-the-kids-jihad-and-jew-hatred/
Posters here seem to agree there is a need for the war on terror.
I am in the U.K and by supporting the U.S our soldiers are being killed in Afghanistan against muslim extremists.
I am wondering why nobody is bothered about the rising and real threat posed by dissident I.R.A terrorist groups here.
The security sevices have reported that the biggest threat to us are these groups not muslim’s, we are on high alert for attacks on the mainland(England
Scotland ,Wales).
The intelligence agencies are saying which targets are being suggested
through infiltrating groups.
The Tory convention in Birmingham has been flagged. This is to redo the Brighton bomb that nearly killed Thatcher.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/12/newsid_2531000/2531583.stm
It’s a matter of when they will bomb not if. When it does happen would posters support us?
Would it be recognised as part of the war on terror?
Would anybody care?
8. Connor states
‘The IRA just wanted sovereignty for Ireland. ‘
You can’t grade terrorism it’s all abhorent.Don’t try to justify their actions.
O.K, so nobody would be bothered.
You should be ashamed,including you Carol.
This is the most incoherent article on terrorism I’ve read. I’m surprised it was published on PJM.
If you were an audience of British school-kids and an admitted anglophobe lectured you about how ‘American citizen’s sponsorship of the IRA was just to get rid of excess testosterone’, then what would your response be?
Imagine if the same was said about the FALN, Puerto Rican Separatists who in the 70s rampaged around USA killing folk, under the guise of freedom fighting. You think American children would be equally as ‘unreceptive’?
It’s quite interesting, however, to see how Carol has turned her Britain-hating and clinical Anglophobia into a money making machine.