The Search for Moderate Islam

Maybe you're right.Perhaps we should invite various thugs around the world to do similar attacks on an annual basis. We could even make it a holiday of some sorts. Maybe we could even do a lottery to select who gets to whack us on that day. And the size of the attack could come as a big surprise! We could even celebrate with fireworks or something.After all, it doesn't threaten our overall continuation, now does it?

What you are suggesting is that we should not react very vigorously to these kinds of attacks.That's a sure method for encouraging more such attacks, not fewer!Now, the method we used after 9/11 was probably not very good. Long, protracted gradual escalation type "actions" are a proven failure.But perhaps our failure was in under-reacting, not over-reacting.Maybe some combination of a short-term real "shock and awe" along with very focused use of our special forces to chase after the bad guys would have been more effective. And it would have been a lot less costly.That extra $ trillion or so could have been used very productively on research and development here at home. It can be argued that we received no good long-term benefits from the way we conducted the post-9/11 actions. Certainly recent events have suggested that to be the case.So, maybe the solution is more blitzkrieg and less PC in our military activities. Better to be feared and respected than to be liked.

‘More will follow’: ISIS fighter praises Paris massacre

A fighter for the Islamic State militant group praised Wednesday’s attack on a French satirical magazine that killed at least 12 people, telling Reuters the raid was revenge for insults against Islam.

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Hooded gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo in the worst militant assault on French soil in recent decades. The dead included top editors at Charlie Hebdo, a publication renowned for lampooning Islam, as well as two police officers.

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The lions of Islam have avenged our Prophet, said Abu Mussab, a Syrian who fights with the Islamic State, which has captured broad swaths of Iraqi and Syrian territory.

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These are our lions. It’s the first drops more will follow, he said, speaking via an Internet connection from Syria. He added that he and his fellow fighters were happy about the incident.

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Let these crusaders be scared because they should be.

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"Muslim" is not a race.

2,000 Feared Dead in Boko Haram Attack

More than 2,000 people are feared dead after Boko Haram destroyed 10 to 20 communities in Nigeria’s rural northeast, according to a senator from the region. These towns are just gone, burned down, said Ahmed Zanna. The whole area is covered in bodies. The radical Islamic group razed the town of Baga along with several others over the past five days. The 2,000 are unofficially unaccounted for.

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Militants planning mass casualty attacks against WestMilitants planning mass casualty attacks against West

London (AFP) - The head of Britain's domestic spy agency MI5 warned on Thursday that militant Islamists in Syria were planning "mass casualty attacks" in the West and that intelligence services may be powerless to stop them.

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"We know... that a group of core al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria is planning mass casualty attacks against the West," Andrew Parker told journalists in London a day after an Islamist attack in Paris claimed 12 lives.

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"Although we and our partners try our utmost, we know that we cannot hope to stop everything," he added.

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Parker said that fighters returning to the West from the civil war in Syria were in danger of bringing with them a "twisted ideology" that could lead them to carry out attacks on famous landmarks at home.

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Although Islamic State (IS) presented the most obvious threat, fighters aligned with the core of al-Qaeda were also a danger.

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"We still face more complex and ambitious plots that follow the now sadly well-established approach of al-Qaeda and its imitators -- attempts to cause large-scale loss of life, often by attacking transport systems or iconic targets," he said.

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Hundreds of Millions of Muslims Support Attack on ‘Charlie Hebdo’Hundreds of Millions of Muslims Support Attack on ‘Charlie Hebdo’
Bill Maher: Hundreds of Millions of Muslims Support Attack on ‘Charlie Hebdo’

Bill Maher didn’t hold back Wednesday night, blasting hundreds of millions of the world’s Muslims for allegedly supporting the Islamic terrorist massacre of cartoonists, writers, and editors at a Parisian satirical magazine that has mocked the Prophet Muhammad.

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I know most Muslim people would not have carried out an attack like this, the host of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher said on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. But here’s the important point: Hundreds of millions of them support an attack like this. They applaud an attack like this. What they say is, ‘We don’t approve of violence, but you know what? When you make fun of the Prophet, all bets are off.

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Hundreds of millions of Muslims? a clearly skeptical Kimmel asked his fellow comedian, an out and proud atheist who in recent years has targeted the adherents of Islam for harsh criticism.

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Absolutely, Maher insisted. That is mainstream in the Muslim world. When you make fun of the Prophet, all bets are off. You get what’s coming to you. It’s also mainstream that if you leave the religion, you get what’s coming to youwhich is death. Not in every Muslim country but this is the problem in the world that we have to stand up to.

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Europe's nightmare: Terror threats both large and smallhttp://hosted.ap.org/...s/E/EU_EUROPE_DEALING_WITH_TERRORISM

LONDON (AP) -- The military-style attack in Paris has made clear that Europe faces an evolving, ever-more complex terror threat no longer dominated by a few big players.

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It's not just al-Qaida, or Islamic State. It's not just the disciples of some fiery, hate-filled preachers.

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Instead, security experts say, it's now an Internet-driven, generalized rage against Western society felt by radicalized Muslims that can burst into the open at any time - with a slaughter in Paris, an attack on a Jewish Museum in Belgium, or the slaying of a soldier in the streets of London.

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This evolving hydra-headed beast bedevils security chiefs, who have to deal not only with al-Qaida planners looking for another 9/11-style hit but also with, as in Paris, well-trained, well-armed killers intent on avenging perceived insults to their religion by gunning down journalists.

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In a rare public speech, Andrew Parker, director of the domestic British security service MI5, said Thursday that thwarting terrorist attacks has become more difficult as the threat becomes more diffuse.

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It is harder, he said, for agents to disrupt plans of small groups or "lone wolves" who act spontaneously, with minimal planning but deadly effect.

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Boko Haram Just Pulled Off One Of The Deadliest Terrorist Attacks In History [ps. Boko Haram aren't Amish]

You keep posting on the moderates, I'll keep posting on the extremists.When the extremists can dominate the moderates, they don't really count, do they?

You want me to start a separate thread for "extreme Islam?"I could do that, and find plenty of examples to fill it.

Run whatever you like. Its your dime.But you have certainly expressed a very anti-American sentiment in this post.Maybe you should go talk to the ISIS folks. Perhaps you would find a number of sentiments in common?In the meantime, I'll take seriously any group that expresses a willingness to kill me and many of my countrymen if we don't kowtow to their extreme religious beliefs.

If you can't see anyone to your left, what does that say about your views?

Child suicide bomber kills at least 16 in NigeriaPage Not Found | Reuters

(Reuters) - A bomb strapped to a girl aged around 10 years old exploded in a busy market place in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday, killing at least 16 people and injuring more than 20, security sources said.

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"The explosive devices were wrapped around her body and the girl looked no more than 10 years old," a police source said.

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Ummm, you seem to have read my post quite wrong.The little girl was a murder victim not a suicide bomber.But still, she wasn't Amish. Care to guess what the dominant religion is in that area? (Isn't Mormon either.)But what amazes me is how many apologists there are for the religion that fosters all of this mayhem.Care to guess about what percentage of all terrorism today comes from one primary source? (And no, it isn't the Amish or the Mormons.)