{"id":972,"date":"2005-07-21T22:23:07","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T03:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=972"},"modified":"2005-07-21T22:25:05","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T03:25:05","slug":"london-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"London.  Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/europe\/07\/21\/london.tube\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/images\/Union_Jack.jpg\"  width=\"450\" height=\"300\"alt=\"(c) FreeFoto.com\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Second verse same as the first.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/europe\/07\/21\/london.tube\/index.html\">Only less so<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two weeks to the day after the July 7 London bombings, attackers tried &#8212; and failed &#8212; to set off explosive devices at three Tube stations and on a double-decker bus.<\/p>\n<p>Police said evidence left behind in Thursday&#8217;s attempted bombings has given them what may be a &#8220;significant breakthrough&#8221; in their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair told reporters the intention of the terrorists &#8220;must have been to kill&#8221; and that some of the devices failed to explode.<\/p>\n<p>There are reports of one person wounded, although ambulance services said they did not transport anyone from the scenes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s is no official word at this time that the latest terror attack was the work of Moslem radicals, but let&#8217;s safely say they do have a pretty good track record in these matters.  There&#8217;s an old saying that has been modified to more adequately match reality:  the race isn&#8217;t always to the swiftest nor the fight to the strongest &#8230; but that&#8217;s the way to bet.  The terrorists aren&#8217;t always radical Islamists, but putting your money down on the red crescent would seem to have a generally solid rate of return.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we should all just sit down and have a nice little powwow on the matter.  Just yesterday, Prime Minister Tony Blair pondered on a conference to ponder on how best to deal with Islamic extremism.  British Moslem leaders countered with a call for an investigation into the motivation of the terrorists.  Great, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20050720.wblair0720\/BNStory\/International\/\">throw in a few rounds of kumbayahs<\/a> and we might be on to something.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday he is considering calling an international conference on how to eliminate Islamic extremism following last week&#8217;s terror bombings in London, while Britain&#8217;s Muslim leaders demanded a judicial inquiry into what motivated the four &#8220;homegrown&#8221; suicide bombers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Want to understand them?  Want their motivation?  Well, I have it &#8212; they want and feel they deserve domination of the whole freakin&#8217; world.  <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/\">Ace<\/a> also has it and spells it out <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/105845.php\">quite clearly<\/a> [emphasis in original].<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Islamofascists do not need fresh provocations for their mass murders. They have 1400 years of greivances they want payback for.<\/p>\n<p>And, by the way, the ideology is expansionist, imperialist, and colonialist&#8211; they want to control all territory they once held, and they want to controll all territory which Muslims have, through immigration, &#8220;colonized.&#8221; They believe it against the demands of Allah for any Muslim to subjugate himself to any authority except a strict Islamic one.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you really think they just want Israel and Iraq?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What about the disputed areas of Kashmir? What about Muslim-heavy areas of the Balkans? What about East Timor? What about non-Muslim parts of Lebanon? What about Africa?<\/p>\n<p>What about the scores of smoldering little civil wars going on all over the world, the majority of which involve Muslims fighting non-Muslims?<\/p>\n<p>Why does the left insist on believing that actual diagnosable psychopaths &#8212; and I am NOT using that term hyperbolically; Islamofascists are true psychopathic murderers &#8212; are somehow &#8220;reasonable&#8221; and if we just give them a little they&#8217;ll be satisfied with that?<\/p>\n<p>Does a shark stop eating after its third fish?<\/p>\n<p>You can appease to your heart&#8217;s content, ladies. But they want Spain back too.<\/p>\n<p>So please write out a list of all the territory of the world you are willing to cede to viciously medieval thugocratic rule in the interests of buying &#8220;peace&#8221; <em>from people who have told you, out of their own mouths and with no equivocation, they simply want to eradicate you and there&#8217;s nothing you can give them that will change their minds<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their worldview must be reshaped or eliminated.  It&#8217;s as simple as that, and the civilization we cherish and hope to pass on to our progeny hangs in the balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second verse same as the first. Only less so. Two weeks to the day after the July 7 London bombings, attackers tried &#8212; and failed &#8212; to set off explosive devices at three Tube stations and on a double-decker bus. Police said evidence left behind in Thursday&#8217;s attempted bombings has given them what may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}