The "Peaceful" Ones -- Terrorists & Terrorism

The title, "All Must Have Prizes" endeared me to the author as soon as I read it.

Apart from All Must Have Prizes, [Melanie Phillips] is the author of The Sex-Change Society: Feminised Britain and the Neutered Male, published by the Social Market Foundation, and America’s Social Revolution, published by Civitas. She also wrote a play, Traitors, which was performed at the Drill Hall in London in 1985.

Her new book The Ascent of Woman, a history of the ideas behind the female suffrage campaign, has recently been published by Little, Brown.

This lethal moral madness -- multiculturalism -- racism Daily Mail, 14 July 2005 via Newsbeat1

[. . . . ] And yet in the debate which has been going on for the past week, Muslims have been presented not as the community which must take responsibility for this horror, but as its principal victims.

This moral inversion is the result of the cultural brainwashing that has been going on in Britain for years in the pursuit of the disastrous doctrine of multiculturalism. This has refused to teach Muslims — along with other minorities — the core of British culture and values. Instead, it has promoted a lethally divisive culture of separateness, in which minority cultures are held to be equal if not superior to the values and traditions of the indigenous majority.

Even worse, multiculturalism causes the moral paralysis of ‘victim culture’, whereby to say an ethnic minority is at fault is to invite immediate accusations of racism. [. . . . ]

Focus special: The web of terror July 17, 2005 -- worth reading, full of information

They struck out of the blue. But at least one of the bombers was known to MI5. David Leppard and Jonathan Calvert investigate [. . . . ]

Within the Gates 7/25/05, By Fouad Ajami

[. . . . ] These lands in the West were bilad al-kufr, lands of infidelity and unbelief. In these new extensions of Islam, London was the most accommodating of cities. It was there that the big Arabic newspapers, denied oxygen by the repressive regimes of Araby, were published. And it was there that men and women from Arab and Islamic lands built new lives, free to live the life of the faith. The terrorism against London is thus a singular act of betrayal.

A fanatic London-based preacher from Syria by the name of Omar Bakri Muhammad tells the tale of this great betrayal. A man of Aleppo, Bakri fled his native Syria in the 1980s and turned up in England in 1996. Since then, he has given his host country nothing but grief and sorrow, calling openly for "holy war" against the West, exhorting young Muslims of Britain to join the insurgency in Iraq. He hailed the death pilots of 9/11 as the "magnificent 19 who changed the world," and he called on Muslims to give the "infidels a 9/11 day after day after day." [. . . . ]

Within the Gates via Newsbeat1, 7/25/05

[. . . . ] "Eurabia." The vulnerability of Europe to the furies of this malignant Islamism is a defining feature of its contemporary life. There are the young men "next door" in Leeds and Madrid, and there are the burning grounds of the Middle East and North Africa hurling their disinherited young people across the Straits of Gibraltar to an aging European continent. We are not in "Eurabia" yet; that great city is still London and not "Londonistan," and no reverse reconquista of the Iberian peninsula by the Moors of North Africa looms on the horizon. Still, liberty is not a suicide pact. We should be done with the search for "explanations" that dignify the hatreds, that attribute them to western deeds and policies. We should see the new hatred dressed in religious garb for what it is: a war against the very order of contemporary life. A man of Moroccan origin, Muhammad Bouyeri, who killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, shot him, then slit his throat, and with his knife attached on his body a message of unadorned barbarism. "I knew what I was doing," Bouyeri said. "I slaughtered him."

It would have been nice to think that in the new lands of the West, a more tolerant version of Islam might have taken root. Instead, a neurotic zealotry has made its appearance. In Scotland the leaders of the industrialized world had assembled to discuss disease and poverty. Then a more deadly animus struck, reminding all of us of more atavistic furies still on the loose.

Terrorism Weblog Assume [. . . . ] after each title.

Loads of information here -- Pipes' articles are always well-researched.

* Jihad on Trial
* The War Goal? Saving Western Civilization
* How a Young British Muslim Was Tempted into Jihad
* How Islamist Killers Dissemble
* Islam vs. Radical Islam in the U.S. Courtroom
* Does Terrorism in the West Help the Islamist Cause?
* Is the Iraqi Government an American Puppet?
* Has Islam Been Hijacked?
* The Left vs. the Islamists
* "PM to question Choudhary over ‘stoning' comments":
* More Tales of Koran Desecration
* Europe Stands Up for Its Customs
* Mohammad Radwan Obeid, Jehovah's Witness?
* "A Lot of It Is in the Nose"
* Sir Ibrahim Hooper and Lord Salam Al-Marayati? Thoughts on the Muslim Council of Britain
* Lodi, California Mysteries
* Europe Accepts Hamas [See: Canada]
* Next Time Someone Gets Indignant About Israeli Spying on the United States
* The Muslim American Society's Goals
* MSM Criticizes CAIR, CAIR Brazens It Out
* Islamist Supremacism in Miniature

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