tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post112276522497025680..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Suicide bombing at GreenwichJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-40623107187867689962007-02-24T21:22:00.000+00:002007-02-24T21:22:00.000+00:00How is this a suicide bombing? It looks like, most...How is this a suicide bombing? <BR/>It looks like, most likely, an 'own goal', or less likely, straightforward suicide. <BR/>'Suicide bombing' is not simply blowing yourself up, but bringing a bomb to a target and blowing yourself up with the target. Where is the target in this incident from the 1890s?<BR/>A very large proportion of IRA volunteers who died in the recent Troubles died in 'own goals', while either making or transporting explosives, comes with the territory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1122876637902388302005-08-01T07:10:00.000+01:002005-08-01T07:10:00.000+01:00the central issue of Muslim terror, in Beslan, Lon...the central issue of Muslim terror, in Beslan, London, Bali, East Timor, Israel, Iraq, Kashmir, Madrid, Tunis, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, and Munich is the rejection of modern society and fundamental modern principles.<BR/><BR/>Muslims want the things that Modernity brings, financial, social, personal liberation, success, and freedom. At the same time they must reject (for Islam rejects it) the scientific materialism and secular rationalism that underpin the Modernity of the West, broadly speaking.<BR/><BR/>Terror is the magic sword that allows them to indulge in magical thinking, in the naive belief that the West and the Modern world will simply collapse under their magical will. See the Sioux Ghost dancers, or Charles Taylors Buck Naked Brigade in Liberia.<BR/><BR/>Ultimately the conflict is between the "normal" of modern society that adapts to rapid change, in technical, social, political, and personal levels, and the "normal" of a society that hasn't change much or at all since the sixth century. It's the real cause and recipe for bloody disaster.<BR/><BR/>The modern "normal" is simply far too powerful, and ultimately ruthless. The pre-Modern societies making the blood, noise and fuss, will be eventually ruthlessly crushed.<BR/><BR/>Millions in Africa and Latin America suffer grinding poverty and oppression, they do not engage in mass murder in London or New York. It's affluent, Western-educated, self-hating Muslims who hate their desire for Modernity and so reject it with monstrous murder.<BR/><BR/>Like I said, bet on Modernity winning. Simply by being roused enough to erase from existence the pre-Modern societies by whatever means is handy. Ugly but usually happens. Josephus and the Jewish War provides a good template.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1122832621890166632005-07-31T18:57:00.000+01:002005-07-31T18:57:00.000+01:00Hitchcock's film version - in which the target is ...Hitchcock's film version - in which the target is Oxford Circus and the result is the destruction of a double decker bus - is eerily close to the recent attacks.<BR/>Thanks for mentioning the Aollo Group<BR/><BR/>PeterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com