Blair on British Islamists

Tony Blair has warned that Britain is in danger of losing the battle against terrorists unless mainstream society confronts the threat.

Sadly this does not look likely. I almost have to laugh as I see newspaper after newspaper describe the suspects as “Asian”. You know if I was Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc I’d be pretty damn annoyed to constantly see terrorists suspects described as “Asian”.

Also back home Russell Brown somewhat bizarrely compares the attempted London car bombings to the 1999 bombing of a gay bar.

I’m almost lost for words in this continual attempt to use moral equivalence, but as Russell has, I’ll respond.

First of all the 1999 gay bar bombings were evil. They were done by an evil insane fucker. He is now in jail for at least 50 years. He was an individual who worked alone.

To compare one demented individual killer to an organised terrorist movement is ridiculous

99.999% of people would condemn what Copeland did. Even amongst “gay haters” 99.99% would be aghast at the bombings. Once Copeland was arrested, life could go back to normal eventually for the areas affected. There was no organised group of anti-gay terrorists who would strike again. Not even the BNP was advocating what was done was right, even though their leader made disgusting comments about it.

Now Islamist terrorism is different. It is planned, organised and co-ordinated. It is, sadly, supported by a significant minority of Muslims. The comparison is not to some insane gay hating individual but say to the IRA. They were supported by an significant minority, and were an organised terror group.

But sadly even that comparison has a limit. The IRA had definite aims. They wanted a united Ireland. One knew what their aim in society was. And we have seen today that they can swing to peace,

The radical Islamist terrorists just hate the West. Yes sure they’ll be a bit happier if Israel was wiped out. They’d love the Taliban to be enslaving women in Afghanistan again also. But that isn’t going to stop Islamist terrorism.

Now to be fair to Russell, while I found his comparison with the mad antigay bomber ridicolous, he did also link to what is part of the solution:

If our country is going to take on radicals and violent extremists, Muslim scholars must go back to the books and come forward with a refashioned set of rules and a revised understanding of the rights and responsibilities of Muslims whose homes and souls are firmly planted in what I’d like to term the Land of Co-existence. And when this new theological territory is opened up, Western Muslims will be able to liberate themselves from defunct models of the world, rewrite the rules of interaction and perhaps we will discover that the concept of killing in the name of Islam is no more than an anachronism.

And that was written by a former jihadist!