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| New British Game: Let's Dump Tony, The Muslims Are Angry |
| 2006-09-09 |
| There is a new game in British politics. Called "Muslims Are Angry", this new game is designed to force Prime Minister Tony Blair out of office. The game starts with the assertion that "the British Muslim community" is "seething with anger" against Blair, because of his foreign policy. It then proceeds to assert that it was Muslim anger that caused the terrorist attacks in London last year and the dozen or so plots nipped in the bud since. The game concludes with the claim that unless Britain reshapes its foreign policy, no one in the United Kingdom would be safe from terrorism by "Angry Muslims." Many Britons who otherwise look sane and sober play the sinister game without questioning its premise. Is there any evidence that all, or even a substantial number, of the estimated 1.8 million Muslims in Britain are "angry" with Blair because of his foreign policy? Can all Muslims in Britain be bracketed into a single "community" ? Supposing there is a single" Muslim community", should we assume that a handful of terrorists speak on its behalf? Isn't that an insult to British Muslims? Supposing that a handful of terrorists do speak for all Muslims in Britain, how would one explain terrorist attacks in Spain, where the Socialist Prime Minister wears the Palestinian scarf, in Germany that has stayed out of the Iraq war, and in Turkey that is, after all, a Muslim state governed by an Islamist party? Today no fewer than 46 of the 57 Muslim majority countries face the same kind of terrorism that Britain is facing. Is that also the fault of Tony Blair? Since we are in a game of suppositions, let us suppose that Blair is gone and a new government is formed to carry out the kind of foreign policy that would make " angry Muslims" chirp with joy. What are the changes that Britain would have to make to be safe from Islamist terrorism? The question is never posed either by the self-styled "Muslim leaders" in Britain, who do not, in fact, represent anyone except their small coteries, or by Blair's non-Muslim enemies who dislike him for reasons that have nothing to do with Islam. More |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #1 Supposing that a handful of terrorists do speak for all Muslims in Britain Finally, the truth. how would one explain terrorist attacks in Spain, where the Socialist Prime Minister wears the Palestinian scarf, in Germany that has stayed out of the Iraq war, and in Turkey that is, after all, a Muslim state governed by an Islamist party? Easy, Muslims just plain love to kill. Infidels, other Muslims, women, children it matters not so long as they are busy destroying something, anything, everything. Constructive behavior is a foreign concept and, when engaged in by others, is all too often nothing but a source of humiliation for incompetent Muslims. Today no fewer than 46 of the 57 Muslim majority countries face the same kind of terrorism that Britain is facing. Is that also the fault of Tony Blair? Nope. More likely Bush, if we are to believe Muslim leaders. Blair is just a lapdog right? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-09 22:16 |