Thursday, August 16, 2007

Storm Track Disinformation: Winning Battles but Losing the War on Terror

The on-line edition of Time Magazine carries a story by Joshua Kurlantzick paying homage to Indonesia's unequalled track record in the continuing war on terrorism. Too bad they and the writer don’t have a clue as to the real conflict before them.

The article chronicles recent devastating blows dealt to home-grown and imported terror cells, citing Indonesia as "one of the world's few triumphs in fighting terrorism."

Relating how police and anti-terror units have "arrested or killed some 300 alleged militants," Indonesia has also become a front-line member on the world effort to curtail money laundering and terror, earning praise from the U.S., Great Britain and Australia along the way.


The whole thrust of the article plays up the success of treating the war as a criminal problem and totally unaware that the strategic struggle between a 21st century civilization and a 7th century one is about ideology not terrorism.

Read the rest a The Gathering Storm.

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Anonymous said...

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Thursday, August 16, 2007 5:50:00 pm
Anonymous said...

This is what they represent:

From http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=164080AB-0CF9-4706-ACAD-7D23DF3F3B4C

"The troubles of Mohammad Sarwar began on the morning of March 14, 2004, when a group of five Muslim men were cruising around Glasgow looking for a white male to kill. Eventually, they zeroed in on Kriss Donald, a slightly-built schoolboy. Suspecting what lay in store, the boy pleaded with his captors as he was being bundled into a waiting car: "Why me? I'm only fifteen."...

As he lay bound on the floor of the car, he was subjected to brutal torture, which included castration and repeated stabbing. Unable to find a suitable house, the kidnappers drove to a garbage dump where they doused him with gasoline and then set him on fire...

The coercion, gagging and murder of their opponents have thus become part and parcel of their political activism. If such Muslims behaved in this fashion only in their own lands, there would be less reason for alarm. The problem is that many of them retain their ways even after immigrating to western countries. And once they gather there in sufficiently high numbers, they often present a destabilizing influence. The story from Glasgow Central – where Muslims managed to remove a democratically elected public official by means of the crassest form of intimidation – should give us an idea of the seriousness of this problem.

Equally alarming is the obvious lack of moral conscience on the part of Sarwar’s critics. Let us not forget what enraged his Muslim censors: it was his bringing to justice three vicious killers for the brutal murder of an innocent child. Only a depraved mind could ever think that this was an act undeserving of condemnation and severe punishment. Yet Sarwar’s castigators obviously thought otherwise and by their actions made it clear that they would have preferred for the crime to go unpunished and the murderers remain free.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that many followers of the Islamic faith lack two qualities essential for the successful functioning of western societies: a sound moral conscience and respect for those who hold opposing points of view. Those who still harbor doubts about this need only to contemplate the downfall of Mohammad Sarwar. By doing right, he ran afoul of his own Muslim constituency.

Most ominously, this story is only a portent of more dire things to come. As the West’s Muslim population continues to expand, incidents of this kind are bound to become more frequent. The question is whether western governments can summon the will to do something about it.

Thursday, August 16, 2007 7:35:00 pm

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