Post by bingbong on Nov 27, 2008 11:54:54 GMT 12
November 26th, 2008 4:28 pm
From Those Who Be-Headed Daniel Pearl and Nicholas Berg–Another Terrorist Attack on Foreigners, in Mumbai, India.
Islamic radicals keep declaring war upon the West and upon everyone who is not a Wahabi-style Muslim. Islamic fundamentalists have attacked Western civilians in Bali, Tanzania, Cairo–and in London, Madrid, New York City, and Washington D.C. Today’s terrorist attack in India targeted Westerners, mainly Americans and British, in an upscale area of Mumbai, India’s financial center.
The West and non-Muslims around the world, have chosen to treat each attack separately, and not as part of a global war. What else will Islamic fundamentalists have to do to be dealt with as the enemy army they truly are?
As I write, the Taj Hotel, a major five star hotel for western tourists in Mumbai is on fire. Islamic terrorists, who carried out well-coordinated attacks in nine separate locations in the city, are believed to have Western hostages in both the Taj and in the Oberoi Hotel. It is important to note that Mumbai is also the home of Bollywood, (the Indian film industry), and is a major tourist center.
As I write, 78 people are reported dead, 250 injured, and 40 human beings, mainly Westerners, are being held hostage. The Indian anti-terrorist chief in Mumbai has been murdered. Nine separate locations were targeted for almost simultaneous attacks. The locations included hospitals (!), cafes, five-star hotels, and a railway station. Terrorists also sprayed gunfire into street crowds.
An unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahadeen has claimed responsibility for these heinous attacks but this has not been confirmed. About an hour ago, the Indian government alleged that a Pakistani/Kashmiri separatist Islamist group, Lashkar-i-Toiba, was behind this. Another possible contender is the Indian Mujahadeen which is an offshoot of the banned SIMI (the Student Islamic Movement). The Indian government is also considering the possibility that the governments of both Pakistan and Bangladesh may have assisted this new terrorist group.
Whoever did this was obviously inspired by, if not trained in, the diabolic art of simultaneity in Bin Laden’s Arab training camps in Afghanistan. However, this time, the approach was not through human bombs or truck bombs (pioneered by Palestinian terrorists against Israeli civilians and by Sri Lankans). Today’s attack involved the use of AK-47s, other types of machine guns, and grenades. The terrorists may have commandeered at least one Indian police truck and police uniforms.
But the modern era of global terrorism really took wing when, in 1964, the late Yasir Arafat unleashed his bloody, relentless attacks against Israel, the only western-style democracy in the Middle East. That was the era of airplane hijackers who, over the decades, turned into deadly human bombs. In my view, since the world did not stop this terrorism in its tracks, we have now all reaped the whirlwind.
But Islamic terrorism is not new to largely Hindu India. There is certainly a Muslim minority who live there still. Since 2001, in India, 666 civilians have died in mainly Islamist terrorist attacks. There is only one instance in which a Hindu terrorist organization attacked a mosque; at least thirteen people died. For example, Islamic terrorists have attacked the Parliament in New Delhi, a temple in Gujarat, a commuter train in New Delhi, an army camp in Jammu; they have launched simultaneous car bomb attacks in Mumbai, attacks in New Delhi right before a major Hindu festival, many bomb blasts in railway stations and parks, in Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, etc.
Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Bahaii, atheists, most Muslim civilians are no longer safe in Muslim countries. Earlier today, a Muslim mob in Cairo attacked a Coptic church. The Middle East and central Asia are almost completely “judenrein;” Muslims governments and mobs have forced out all the Jews.
Simultaneously, Muslim immigrants have populated Europe and North America. Some are in flight from Islamism, many support it. Those who do, all expect, even demand, “sensitivity” and tolerance from Western countries, including an acceptance of polygamy, female face veiling, honor killing, a separatist life.
Jews and Christians cannot pray in Mecca or Medina. If I were the Princes of Saudi Arabia, (who are most responsible for Bin Laden’s ascent), I would start building churches, synagogues, and Hindu temples right now in those two cities–and I would offer monetary aid to India and to today’s victims and their families, most of whom will probably turn out to be Indian Hindus.
India is a major American ally. It is a democracy armed with nuclear power. Will Europe and America continue to stand idly by? Will Russia and China?
Since 1993, I just counted 26 separate terrorist attacks, launched mainly by Islamic fundamentalists against India.
Of course, Israel has a much, much higher count of terrorist attacks, both launched and intercepted.
Is it time for India to learn from Israel which was able to staunch the bloody terrorist attacks only by building a “security wall?”
Or, rather than be walled up, is it time to take the fight to the enemy? How might democracies best do that without getting bogged down in a hopeless nest of Mogadishu-like disasters?
Phyillis Chesler
From Those Who Be-Headed Daniel Pearl and Nicholas Berg–Another Terrorist Attack on Foreigners, in Mumbai, India.
Islamic radicals keep declaring war upon the West and upon everyone who is not a Wahabi-style Muslim. Islamic fundamentalists have attacked Western civilians in Bali, Tanzania, Cairo–and in London, Madrid, New York City, and Washington D.C. Today’s terrorist attack in India targeted Westerners, mainly Americans and British, in an upscale area of Mumbai, India’s financial center.
The West and non-Muslims around the world, have chosen to treat each attack separately, and not as part of a global war. What else will Islamic fundamentalists have to do to be dealt with as the enemy army they truly are?
As I write, the Taj Hotel, a major five star hotel for western tourists in Mumbai is on fire. Islamic terrorists, who carried out well-coordinated attacks in nine separate locations in the city, are believed to have Western hostages in both the Taj and in the Oberoi Hotel. It is important to note that Mumbai is also the home of Bollywood, (the Indian film industry), and is a major tourist center.
As I write, 78 people are reported dead, 250 injured, and 40 human beings, mainly Westerners, are being held hostage. The Indian anti-terrorist chief in Mumbai has been murdered. Nine separate locations were targeted for almost simultaneous attacks. The locations included hospitals (!), cafes, five-star hotels, and a railway station. Terrorists also sprayed gunfire into street crowds.
An unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahadeen has claimed responsibility for these heinous attacks but this has not been confirmed. About an hour ago, the Indian government alleged that a Pakistani/Kashmiri separatist Islamist group, Lashkar-i-Toiba, was behind this. Another possible contender is the Indian Mujahadeen which is an offshoot of the banned SIMI (the Student Islamic Movement). The Indian government is also considering the possibility that the governments of both Pakistan and Bangladesh may have assisted this new terrorist group.
Whoever did this was obviously inspired by, if not trained in, the diabolic art of simultaneity in Bin Laden’s Arab training camps in Afghanistan. However, this time, the approach was not through human bombs or truck bombs (pioneered by Palestinian terrorists against Israeli civilians and by Sri Lankans). Today’s attack involved the use of AK-47s, other types of machine guns, and grenades. The terrorists may have commandeered at least one Indian police truck and police uniforms.
But the modern era of global terrorism really took wing when, in 1964, the late Yasir Arafat unleashed his bloody, relentless attacks against Israel, the only western-style democracy in the Middle East. That was the era of airplane hijackers who, over the decades, turned into deadly human bombs. In my view, since the world did not stop this terrorism in its tracks, we have now all reaped the whirlwind.
But Islamic terrorism is not new to largely Hindu India. There is certainly a Muslim minority who live there still. Since 2001, in India, 666 civilians have died in mainly Islamist terrorist attacks. There is only one instance in which a Hindu terrorist organization attacked a mosque; at least thirteen people died. For example, Islamic terrorists have attacked the Parliament in New Delhi, a temple in Gujarat, a commuter train in New Delhi, an army camp in Jammu; they have launched simultaneous car bomb attacks in Mumbai, attacks in New Delhi right before a major Hindu festival, many bomb blasts in railway stations and parks, in Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, etc.
Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Bahaii, atheists, most Muslim civilians are no longer safe in Muslim countries. Earlier today, a Muslim mob in Cairo attacked a Coptic church. The Middle East and central Asia are almost completely “judenrein;” Muslims governments and mobs have forced out all the Jews.
Simultaneously, Muslim immigrants have populated Europe and North America. Some are in flight from Islamism, many support it. Those who do, all expect, even demand, “sensitivity” and tolerance from Western countries, including an acceptance of polygamy, female face veiling, honor killing, a separatist life.
Jews and Christians cannot pray in Mecca or Medina. If I were the Princes of Saudi Arabia, (who are most responsible for Bin Laden’s ascent), I would start building churches, synagogues, and Hindu temples right now in those two cities–and I would offer monetary aid to India and to today’s victims and their families, most of whom will probably turn out to be Indian Hindus.
India is a major American ally. It is a democracy armed with nuclear power. Will Europe and America continue to stand idly by? Will Russia and China?
Since 1993, I just counted 26 separate terrorist attacks, launched mainly by Islamic fundamentalists against India.
Of course, Israel has a much, much higher count of terrorist attacks, both launched and intercepted.
Is it time for India to learn from Israel which was able to staunch the bloody terrorist attacks only by building a “security wall?”
Or, rather than be walled up, is it time to take the fight to the enemy? How might democracies best do that without getting bogged down in a hopeless nest of Mogadishu-like disasters?
Phyillis Chesler
