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A terrorist attack has happened in Europe. Let the standard response begin
2016-03-24
[BLOGS.SPECTATOR.CO.UK] Well at least we all know the form by now. This morning Islamist suicide-bombers struck one of the few European capitals they haven’t previously hit in a mass-casualty terrorist attack.
Serious Islamists attacked non-serious Euros. We've seen this before, because it's happened so often before.
Last time it became a serious ongoing problem, a variety of European countries, including Switzerland, arranged to pay the PLO billions to transit them quietly instead of while bombing, shooting, and kidnapping. They are, I believe, still making those payments.
The standard response now goes as follows. First the body parts of innocent people are flung across airport check-ins or underground trains. Briefly there is some shock. On social media the sentimentalists await the arrival of this atrocity’s cutesy hashtag or motif and hope it will tide them over until the piano man arrives at the scene of the attack to sing ‘Imagine there’s no countries’. Meantime someone will hopefully have said something which a lot of people can condemn as ‘inappropriate’. I see that the Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson was this morning’s Twitter miscreant, foolish enough to say in the wake of the Brussels attack that the EU might not make us very safe. One may agree or disagree with this sentiment, but Ms Pearson should have known that the only acceptable thing to do after a jacket wallah detonates beside the European Commission is to acclaim the Commission as one of the few entities able to keep us safe.

We will shortly move to the next phase, which is to find a good news story amid the rubble. Anything will do, but best of all is a Muslim good news story. After Gay Paree it was swiftly reported that one of the suicide bombers at Stade de La Belle France had been turned away by a brave Muslim security guard. The story whizzed around the world before anyone could check whether it was true. It wasn’t. But people needed it to be. Not because Muslims don’t do good deeds, but because in the wake of any Islamist terrorist attack people need people opposed to the bombers to be Muslim and the bombers themselves not to be Muslim. Then the good Muslim can represent Islam while the bad Muslims can be said to have nothing to do with it.
Posted by:Fred

#10  Lamp must be something of a dim bulb.
Do such still end up in the Sink Trap?
Posted by: Black Charlie Bourbon1513   2016-03-24 22:15  

#9  Give 'em heck, tw! And don't let the bastiges wear you down.
Posted by: SteveS   2016-03-24 17:32  

#8  Whew! The raving nonsense was giving me a headache, so I spam copped the idiot.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-03-24 16:51  

#7  Already 2nd headline to pictures of Trump's wife.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-03-24 09:36  

#6  Uh oh, the collectivist ad lib plinko matrix posted in public.

Have heart Mike. There is a lot of strength in that phrase if you judo throw it.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2016-03-24 09:29  

#5  
Posted by: Lampedusa Creretch3679   2016-03-24 08:48  

#4  ...Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit has a line that sadly fits better than anything else:

"MUSLIM LEADERS WARN OF BACKLASH AFTER TOMORROW'S TERROR ATTACK"

It is to weep

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2016-03-24 08:33  

#3  kinda reminds me of that movie men at work - SOMEBODY GONE AND THROWN OUT A PERFECTLY FINE WHITE MAN -except now it,s dozens at a time who is funding this war on both sides?
Posted by: Lampedusa Creretch3679   2016-03-24 08:16  

#2  Bravo! Exactly how I feel about the show we get every time Muslims worship in an Islamic way in the west.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-03-24 04:11  

#1  Anonymous Declares War on ISIS

Posted by: Jineck Unolurt9698   2016-03-24 01:16  

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