Eight men arrested and more than half a ton of ammonium nitrate fertiliser seized from a self storage unit in West London.
Hate to tell you Mr. Shadjareh, but the Muslim community is being demonized by those collecting a half a ton of ammonium nitrate for nefarious ends. That’s a bit more than can be used in their window boxes in west London.
Cheers!
I think the number of people arrested has gone up to 24 now, and there’s already people calling radio chat shows and blaming the Muslim community for not being more vigilant…
By the same ludicrous standars, I guess we should blame the white community in Kansas for also not being sufficiently vigilant. :rolleyes:
My point exactly. On the radio again this morning, people were saying that it’s about time Britain stopped being so politically correct and started imposing martial law on Muslims and flinging them into internment camps until we can sort out the good ones from the bad ones…
Yes it’s a good thing these attacks were stopped, but we’re already seeing the makings of a widespread anti-muslim backlash here, and its ugly. I just know that decent, moderate Muslims are going to be paying yet again for the criminal actions of an extremist few…
I don’t know about Kansas, but this letter from the Muslim Council of Britain to mosques across the UK is certainly an interesting development.
Well,you may not know about kansas–but I do:
-and here’s the critical difference: Kansas doesnt call for all its citizens to perform jihad (Holy War) and be rewarded with 70 virgins in paradise.
(Yes, I know that jihad is supposed to be “spiritual” war of the soul and not a literal war.But millions and millions of muslims who think otherwise fill the streets too often with cries of jihad and open display of weapons.
(there are a few hotheads in Kansas, too–but they don’t brandish weapons and proudly threaten to kill me while the highest religious and governmental authorities wave from the balcony in approval.)
When the Catholic Church became hopelessly corrupt, a priest named Martin Luther decided to Reform it. Where is the muslim Luther?
It isnt enough to quote one letter from the Muslim council, printed in English for PR reasons. Serious muslim philosophy is usually written in Arabic, isnt it?
(oops, this ain’t the GD forum…sorry)
Like Tim Mc Veigh, Chuckles?
Remember? The Federal Building? Babies blown up by a wild-eyed murderer who wanted to overthrow our American way of life?
You must have heard of it; it was in all the papers.
Or the religious fanatics who run the schools in Kansas? And single out the Wiccans and Goths for harrassment?
Oh yeah–you know all about Kansas. Oh yeah. :rolleyes: :mad:
Interesting point about the raids:
Number of police officers involved: 700
Number of armed police officers: Zero
Number of injuries: Zero
There are crazy INDIVIDUALS in every society on earth. But when they band together in the millions and become a major force, then that society becomes a dangerous empire of evil.
America was a pretty bad place most of its history, if you were a black person in Alabama. But then good people stood up and said “this is evil,–so let’s CHANGE the laws to end slavery/Jim Crow laws”. I’m still waiting for a major force of change in the Muslim world
You are right,–Tim McVeigh was a wild eyed murderer. But he is an individual, and can be stopped. No high-ranking procliamed him a holy martyr and waved approvingly to mobs of millions of McVeigh supporters.
The closest analogy is to Nazi Germany.When mobs of millions screamed Heil Hilter and swore to die for the cause, the western world had to guts to say “this is evil and must be stopped”
And do you really think that that religious fanatics who run the schools in Kansas are similar to the religious fanatics who run the schools in Saudi Arabia? try an experiment: walk into a school in Kansas and say out loud “I disagree with you.I believe in evolution,I believe in women’s rights, and I am Jewish”. Then do it in S.Arabia.