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February 5, 2007

A Western-Shifting Battlefield Meets Up With The Naivite Of The Multiculturalists And The Secular Progressives

Jules at Forward Movement writes that the war with extremist Islam has just entered a new phase. Times of London: Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan and Iraq have issued orders for British cells to conduct a "low-tech" campaign of abductions and beheadings.

ISLAMIC terror cells in Britain have been instructed to carry out a series of kidnappings and beheadings of the kind allegedly planned by the nine terrorist suspects arrested in Birmingham last week.

The "strategic" assassination instruction was issued by Al-Qaeda's leaders in Pakistan and Iraq to dozens of their followers in this country. It was uncovered by MI5 last autumn, senior security sources say.

... The revelation explains the recent deployment of a permanent SAS unit to London. The unit has been placed on 24-hour standby to respond to a terrorist attack in the capital. It would aim to carry out a hostage rescue mission within minutes of being alerted.

... One well placed source said: "Cells in the UK have been alerted to carry out this type of attack as opposed to the more sophisticated type of bombing in which you place a large number of volunteers at risk. All you need for a beheading is a bit of courage and a sharp knife."

You'll find more commentary at Forward Movement.

There's additional commentary by Jeff at Protein Wisdom, who has much more faith in our present political leadership than I do, and more faith in the multicultural secular progressives among us than I believe to be deserving of them.

Responding to Jules' comment at Forward Movement that "It is only a matter of time before they turn their attention to the United States and "low-tech" operations here. And it is only a matter of time before they expand their list of beheading candidates to other sectors of the population," Jeff writes:

... they will only occur here with any kind of coordination and sanctioning if al- Qaeda completely misreads our culture and confuses the US with a European country governed by soft Western social liberalism. And that would be a serious miscalculation. Because, unlike many European countries, the US has the capability to strike back at more than merely the local pawns--as we have done in both Afghanistan and Iraq. And should we begin seeing attacks on malls or schools here in the US, it is only a matter of time before our politicians are forced to heed to public outcry for relief, which will involve, in addition to such things as immigration reform and a further relaxation of civil liberties protections, calls to stop the attacks by projecting force internationally.

In an open society such as ours, we are indeed susceptible to such attacks.

But they will only occur here with any kind of coordination and sanctioning if al Qaeda completely misreads our culture and confuses the US with a European country governed by soft Western social liberalism. And that would be a serious miscalculation. Because, unlike many European countries, the US has the capability to strike back at more than merely the local pawns--as we have done in both Afghanistan and Iraq. And should we begin seeing attacks on malls or schools here in the US, it is only a matter of time before our politicians are forced to heed to public outcry for relief, which will involve, in addition to such things as immigration reform and a further relaxation of civil liberties protections, calls to stop the attacks by projecting force internationally.

And it will be at that point that our ROEs will have changed, and there won't be a damn thing Andrew Sullivan will be able to do about it. In short, such attacks here would significantly hasten the defeat of the Islamist project.

Jeff's excellent commentary aside, I'm inclined to agree with Jules: "It is only a matter of time before they turn their attention to the United States and "low-tech" operations here. And it is only a matter of time before they expand their list of beheading candidates to other sectors of the population."

Call me a pessimist, but a nation whose electorate puts a Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and company into power in the middle of a war against a world wide radical Islamic terrorist movement joined at the hips with Islamic terrorist states seeking Armageddon and an Islamic caliphate, is obviously far too naive, dislodged from reality, selfishly engaged in their own agenda, and far too stuck in multiculturalism and far too wrapped up in secular progressivism to have a basis to defend itself against radical Islam - with or without beheadings going on in our cities. We have responded to radical Islam no differently than have the Europeans.

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Posted by Richard at February 5, 2007 8:03 AM