[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: Horrorism

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Horrorism
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1158598934.shtml


   According to the Daily Mail, [1]A London lawyer said that the Pope
   must die.

     A notorious Muslim extremist told a demonstration in London
     yesterday that the Pope should face execution.

     Anjem Choudary said those who insulted Islam would be "subject to
     capital punishment".

     His remarks came during a protest outside Westminster Cathedral on
     a day that worldwide anger among Muslim hardliners towards Pope
     Benedict XVI appeared to deepen...

     ...Choudary's appeal for the death of Pope Benedict was the second
     time he has been linked with apparent incitement to murder within a
     year.

     The 39-year-old lawyer organised demonstrations against the
     publication of cartoons of Mohammed in February in Denmark.
     Protesters carried placards declaring "Behead Those Who Insult
     Islam".

     Yesterday he said: "The Muslims take their religion very seriously
     and non-Muslims must appreciate that and that must also understand
     that there may be serious consequences if you insult Islam and the
     prophet.

     "Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to
     capital punishment."

     A Scotland Yard spokesman said of his comments: "We have had no
     complaints about this. There were around 100 people at the
     demonstration. It passed off peacefully and there were no arrests."

   horrorism
   Anjem Choudary

   The blogger [2]Catholic Londoner took photos of protesters holding
   signs that said May Allah Curse the Pope, Trinity of Evil: Pope go to
   hell as he walked out of the Cathedral. Most of the protesters were
   masked.

   Gee, do you think they're trying to scare us?

   Simon Jenkins in the Guardian wrote that [3]"Terrorism is 10% bang and
   90% an echo effect. Martin Amis calls it [4]horrorism. It's not clear
   who has inspired the tactic of modern terrorism more - Sayyid Qutb or
   Creepshow. It's nearly all special effects, and cheap ones at that.
   Osama and his ilk have been waging bargain basement terrorism lately,
   threats via videotape. A blank cassette goes for what, 19 cents?

   As [5]Ron pointed out here, our enemies manufacture fear and outrage
   with the same skill that McDonald's uses to churn out hamburgers. Kill
   a few people, burn a few effigies, get on CNN and terrify the world.
   Over 5 billion served.

   The only question is, why are we buying it? [6]Martin Amis says:

     Suicide-mass murder is astonishingly alien, so alien, in fact, that
     Western opinion has been unable to formulate a rational response to
     it. A rational response would be something like an unvarying
     factory siren of unanimous disgust. But we haven't managed that.
     What we have managed, on the whole, is a murmur of dissonant
     evasion...

     ...Osama bin Laden's table talk, at Tarnak Farms in Afghanistan,
     where he trained his operatives before September 2001, must have
     included many rolling paragraphs on Western vitiation, corruption,
     perversion, prostitution, and all the rest. And in 1998, as season
     after season unfolded around the president's weakness for fellatio,
     he seemed to have good grounds for his most serious miscalculation:
     the belief that America was a softer antagonist than the USSR (in
     whose defeat, incidentally, the 'Arab Afghans' played a negligible
     part). Still, a sympathiser like the famously obtuse 'American
     Taliban' John Walker Lindh, if he'd been there, and if he'd been a
     little brighter, might have framed the following argument.

     Now would be a good time to strike, John would tell Osama, because
     the West is enfeebled, not just by sex and alcohol, but also by 30
     years of multicultural relativism. They'll think suicide bombing is
     just an exotic foible, like shame-and-honour killings or female
     circumcision. Besides, it's religious, and they're always slow to
     question anything that calls itself that. Within days of our
     opening outrage, the British royals will go on the road for Islam,
     and stay on it. And you'll be amazed by how long the word
     Islamophobia, as an unanswerable indictment, will cover Islamism
     too. It'll take them years to come up with the word they want - and
     Islamismophobia clearly isn't any good. Even if the Planes
     Operation succeeds, and thousands die, the Left will yawn and
     wonder why we waited so long. Strike now. Their ideology will make
     them reluctant to see what it is they confront. And it will make
     them slow learners.

   Given the history of [7]Arab/Muslim [8]ethnic [9]cleansing and
   attempts to extend this program of 'Arabization' to [10]Africa,
   [11]Asia and the West, we can see that, while our enemies use
   religious fanatacism to inspire followers and frighten everyone else,
   their real goals are fairly pedestrian. They want more money, they
   want more land, they want more power - just like everyone else who has
   ever waged war. Without horrorism, these holy warriors would be about
   as powerful as the [12]Grenadan army.

   This isn't an ideological war, it's a war between Arabization's
   militarily weak lebensraum seekers vs. Westerners who'd rather ignore
   the whole bother while they can, settle down with a good glass of wine
   and watch a rerun of the Evil Dead.

   It's pointless to decry the 'radicals' for their actions. They know
   that they're at war with us and most of the world. They're just doing
   their job.

   We're not doing ours. We refuse to acknowledge that men like Anjem
   Choudary are at war with us. We refuse to acknowledge an enemy
   combatant, even when he's shouting in our face.

   Of the police reaction to the 'protest' in front of Westminster, a
   [13]Catholic Londoner says:

     There were about 100 police around and about keeping an eye on
     things and video recording the protestors. I asked if they'd be
     prosecuted, and the policeman sounded edgey. He said they'd been
     warned about their behaviour already but arresting any of them
     might just fuel them up ever more.

   That is why this will be a long war.

References

   1. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=405622&in_page_id=1770
   2. http://catholiclondoner.blogspot.com/2006/09/very-rushed-post.html
   3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1867405,00.html
   4. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1868732,00.html
   5. http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1158508460.shtml
   6. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1868732,00.html
   7. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/02/12/do1205.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/02/12/ixportal.html
   8. http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1115678310.shtml
   9. http://eccelibano.blogspot.com/2005/02/why-am-i-not-arab.html
  10. http://www.hvk.org/articles/0203/183.html
  11. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4195056.html
  12. http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/history/2003/10grenada.htm
  13. http://catholiclondoner.blogspot.com/2006/09/very-rushed-post.html