Yesterday in the heart of London, there was (another) terrorist attack. To the broader Mainstream, it was perpetrated by a terrorist who has nothing to do with Islam. To the Counter-Jihad Mainstream, it was perpetrated by a "jihadist" who is somehow meaningfully distinct from all other non-"jihadist" Muslims.
The anti-Islam website & news journal headquartered in Paris, Riposte Laique (and, unlike Robert Spencer, they actually are anti-Islam), has a synopsis that usefully puts this into perspective:
“Since the attack, British Parliament has been totally shut down, and deputies and journalists who happened to be inside Parliament buildings were placed under maximum security and forbidden to leave the buildings for their own protection. Parliament is being prepared to be thoroughly searched for bombs. The entire center of London is blockaded; authorities have evacuated civilians from there and have prevented anyone else from entering. Helicopters are circling Parliament as well as 10 Downing Street.
“At the beginning of March, Scotland Yard announced that British security services have foiled 13 terror plots since June of 2013 in the United Kingdom. Since August of 2014, the threat level has remained at ‘grave’, the 4th of a scale of 5 [5 being the worst]. Following the Muslim attacks in France of November 13, 2015, British police announced the deployment of 600 additional armed police in London, bringing their numbers to 2,800.”
3 comments:
Does JW still have the kneejerk reactions to the BNP that there used to be?
Richard James, what you describe and what you've been noticing is the "Slow Jihad", which involves & results in a slow but steady transformation of the host culture. That by itself would not be terribly worrisome, were it not the mere vehicle for a more thoroughgoing takeover in the distant future ("distant" to those who think 75-100 years is that long away, for an End to Civilization as we know it) which perforce would be attended by violence on a scale virtually indistinguishable from frank warfare on our soil.
I.e., were it not for the Violence component of Islam, with its long arc of time calculated to conquer, which obviously they can't do now, but which in any event cannot be done without rampant violence, I wouldn't worry that much, and would consider what Western polities have been doing thus far to be adequate.
Nobody, As far as I've seen, neither JW articles nor anyone in comments has mentioned the BNP for years. It's like they don't exist anymore.
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