I think you’re scratching the surface of the news, La.

Here is an article dealing with part of what I’m talking about, and it quotes some of the mainstream reports you’ve been missing.

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_65677.shtml

As for the ‘whys’ and the ‘wherefores’, you don’t have to think about that for the time being. Just deal with the facts as they develop first.

I’m just a slightly wary of statements which condemn all forms of violence, because from there to equating the murder of a soldier with the invasion of Iraq is but a small step.

Of course I understand the message of the statement, I heartily welcome it, and I think it was the right thing to do, so I’ll leave it at that.

Actually it was Carl von Clusewitz who defined war as “a continuation of politics by other means”

Dr. Saliba. I misunderstood you there. My mistake. I agree with you wholeheartedly.

Islam IS a religion but wherever possible it tries to impose an intolerant fundamentalist confessional state that practises a jihadist murderous terrorism against all “infidels” (e.g. Hindus) and a lucrative reluctant tolerance towards “people of the book” (Christians and Jews).

There would be a legitimate place for war only in the case of defensive wars against unjust aggression but not for expansionist wars declared by the strong against the weak and against which it would be legitimate to defend oneself.

One mustn’t forget that it was Mintoff’s “sixth point” that violence should be acceptable in certain unidentified political situations. As soon as he gained power he amply demonstrated what those situations were when his followers murdered Raymond Caruana, when they burned down The Times, when they denied the freedom of assembly in Zejtun etc. with total immunity.

“Frightening” are the video clips showing the jihadist’s mother vicious, arrogant, ungrateful and hateful sentiments towards a generous United States of America that had granted her, and her family, an asylum that they clearly did not deserve.

*facepalm*

Syria? I thought the argument there was that the West WASN’T doing anything to overthrow the regime.

In practice it is the opposite that happened in many cases. The societal changes that happened were to accommodate different cultures. But this has evidently not worked when it came to arrivals / new residents with strong religious influences. These new comers to Europe brought with them their cultures and imposed ‘strange’ new ways of life upon the local residents.

The result of this ‘logic’ was that local European communities and the ‘average’ European felt/feels threatened and unprotected. If all this may sound as too much generic, the feed back I get from many foreign European friends, confirms this.

I think that Muslim organisations, as well as influential individuals, in Europe should long have lauded the European freedoms that we are accustomed to, and should have criticized unequivocally religious fanaticism but I think that I would be expecting too much for such to happen.