These were terrorists who make no serious [2] concrete demands. They’re not after riches. They don’t genuinely want prisoners released or captured revolutionary leaders handed over. They don’t want to be flown to Cuba.
All they truly want is blood. American and British blood [3]. Western blood. The cold, calculated and
cowardly slaughter of innocent, prosperous people enjoying their lives, and the collateral killing of anyone who gets in the way of that goal. All the training of these killers [4] was evidently directed towards death: their ideology, their outlook
and their ingenuity in putting together a coordinated city-wide assault [5] was all directed to that end.
A religion that began in violence has become a culture that now sees violence as their major message to the world.
“This is how Islam solves its problems, with violence. This is not an ‘isolated incident’ or the product of a ‘few extremists.’ One bombing is isolated, two is the work of a few extremists ...” So what do you call this litany?
New York. Washington. The USS Cole. Embassy bombings. Rabbi Kahane. Pim Fortyn. Theo Van Gogh. Daniel Pearl. Luxor. Madrid. Beslan. Jaipur. London. Sharm el Sheikh. Cairo. Bali. Mumbai, 2006 and 2007. Karachi. Mumbai, 2008.
The ‘religion of peace’ now has over a hundred new victims to add to its ‘glory’: new sacrifices to a culture of barbarism and the failure to take this threat seriously enough.
Like it or not, but the west is still at war. Barbarism declared war on civilisation decades ago, yet civilisation has still not truly woken up to it. “We” didn't start this war or encourage the threat, but a litany of appeasement has ferociously fanned its flames [6], encouraged the attackers, emboldened the growth of violence. And in the litany of attackers is a common thread: Islamo-totalitarians who by their own admission "worship death" as we in the west worship life; who want the prosperous, freedom-loving west dead, as dead as their own dark souls; and who see the cowardly west as easy prey.
On this last point at least, they're right.
I’ve said this before more than once: the war we are in is as much an ideological war as it is an actual hot war [7]. The blood-soaked voices from the stone age like this one [8] know it:
“no we do not apologize … i'm happy they were attacked and i don't feel a bit sorry for them… Those who disbelieve and who wrong muslims, they will get something similar to it. because what goes around comes around… mumbai is one of the most shaytanic places on earth. all that bollywood crap is there, and maybe this is a sign for them to take heed.”
To barbarians like these,the free and prosperous west is a personal affront; their war on the west is the last gap of the Dark Age they've submitted to themselves and wish to impose on the rest of the world. Their own ideology has failed at everything but the production of penury and death, and now it's all they have left. In the words of their chief spokesman, we in the west know how to live, but they “know how to die.” And don’t they just.
Meanwhile, the ideological war on behalf of the west has still to be fully engaged, and in most of the west is still resolutely undercut by the voices of "useful idiots" from the academies who use the freedom of the west
only to attack and undercut it.
A principled, rational, consistent, philosophical defence of the ideas that support freedom and western civilisation is long overdue; the barbarians themselves know their enemies -- the ideas of reason, of individualism, of property rights and freedom and capitalism: but who among
those who enjoy these boons will lift a finger to seriously defend them.