The victim
The below update from Fox News has much to comment on. We now know the identity of the young British soldier ( Lee Rigby) who was killed by two savages in south London yesterday. We also now apparently have a name for one of the attackers thanks to Anjem Choudary, who knew one of them (surprise).
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/05/23/brave-woman-tried-to-reason-with-london-attackers/
"And Anjem Choudary, the leader of radical Islamist organization al-Muhajiroun -- a group banned under anti-terrorism laws in the UK -- has told Reuters that he knows one of the reported suspects. Michael Adebolajo, named by the BBC as one of the attackers, attended a number of the organization's demonstrations, lectures and activities according to Choudary, although he claimed not to have seen him for about two years."
When is Britain, with all its hate speech laws, going to do something about Choudary, a vile creature who no doubt gave inspiration to at least one of the attackers?
And this:
"Additionally, the Conservative Prime Minister emphasized that “there is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act,” and that the fault lay solely with the attackers. He also noted that more Muslim lives have been lost in terrorist acts than any other religion."
Really? Somebody better send Mr Cameron the texts that are widely available with the relevant verses earmarked. Perhaps, Mr Cameron would like the view the most recent speech by Yusuf al Qaradawi in Gaza. I think Qaradawi knows more about the subject that Mr Cameron does. In fact, I think Qaradawi richly deserves his reputation as one of the world's leading scholars of Islam. He gets it. Cameron does not.
If there is one uplifting aspect to this awful story, it is the response of an ordinary 48-year-old British woman named Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, who got off a bus and tried to give aid to the victim while facing down one of the attackers, hatchet still in hand.
Unfortunately, people like her don't get to be prime minister in Britain any more.
Comparing the Aryan Nation/CSA (Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord)/KKK et al., even totally combined, to Islamic extremism/jihad, or whatever term suits Siarlys is, again, apples and horseapples.
ReplyDeleteThere is a very large pragmatic/practical difference indeed between very occasional and continuous, although admittedly perhaps not in principle.