Other writers are saying things better than I am about the events of today.
Slate: By Christopher Hitchens.
This latest challenge is far more insidious, however, because the ambitions of the killers are non-negotiable, and because their methods so exactly match their aims.
Winds of Change: By Bill Roggio.
One thing is certain: the terrorist attacks in Britain will call into question the viability of the legal/policing approach to the War on Terror, as well as Europe’s immigration and asylum laws. Robert S. Leiken's article Europe's Angry Muslims in the July/August of Foreign Affairs explains the inherent problems with Europe's Muslim populations and the pervasiveness of radical Islamists in the European culture. If the latest terror attacks in Britain force Europe to take a tougher stand on the Islamists in their midst and lead to the dismantlement of the vast Islamists support structure, then al Qaeda miscalculated the impact of the attack.
DANEgerous: Islamofascism: By DANEgerus.
Cliff May: On the BBC today one British official was quite puzzled that the terrorists would strike during the G8, a time when world leaders were addressing “poverty, inequality and injustice.”
That presupposes that the terrorists care about “poverty, inequality and injustice.” How stupid do you have to be to believe that someone who takes money from a Saudi billionaire to buy bombs cares about “poverty and inequality”? How ignorant do you have to be to believe that to Radical Islamists “justice” means anything other than infidels choking on their own blood, their civilization burning and a glorious, renewed caliphate arising from the ashes?
If you don’t first accept there is a worldwide religious war against those who worship a divinity that rewards killing humans, then you will never completely understand the events of this period of time. Tenets of faith are not products derived from logic and will not be changed by logic. Killers seeking rewards in the afterlife are not the same as criminals seeking rewards of the here and now. Nothing in the actions of western civilization created the belief that God desires the killing of innocents. All guilt lies entirely upon the guilty.
