The brutal murder of an off-duty soldier by two Muslim activists continues to dominate the news in Great Britain. The scene was utterly bizarre: in broad daylight, in a busy section of London, the two Muslims apparently ran the soldier down with a car, within a block or two of his barracks, and then attacked him with knives and a meat cleaver. They attempted to behead him, apparently not quite successfully, as hundreds of passers-by looked on. No one stopped them–private ownership of firearms being illegal in the U.K.–but three random women, who have been extravagantly praised for their bravery, tended to the soldier’s body and engaged the murderers in conversation, in hopes of diverting them from killing anyone else. This went on for quite a while."...........
What really got me? The attackers just stayed there waiting for the police to show up. Thankfully no one else was hurt. I was in London a few years ago and it is truly a world city. Only our cab driver was traditional English. Vietnamese Indians Paki's Portuguese East Europeans Scandanavians etc. Were the people we communicated with.
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Fiyaz Mughal runs a project called Tell Mama, which receives £214,000 a year from the Government to monitor anti-Muslim attacks in Britain. In the wake of Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder, he has been understandably busy.
There has, said Mr Mughal, been “a wave of attacks, harassment, and hate-filled speech against Muslims … an unprecedented number of incidents”, including “a rise in street harassment of Muslims – unprovoked, opportunistic attacks from strangers as Muslims go about their lives”. …
“The scale of the backlash is astounding … there has been a massive spike in anti-Muslim prejudice. A sense of endemic fear has gripped Muslim communities.”
Enough fear to cause radical imams to back off on preaching the desirability of mass murder of infidels? Well, no, not that much."............
There is a grassroots drive to let British citizens under severe regulation own handguns again. I don't know if it would help in this case because I can't imagine them being legally allowed to carry outside the home.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
