But It's Not Muslims!

Karl Denninger * Market Ticker

Utterly outrageous.

If you remember in the UK last week a pair of “gentlemen” hacked the head off a member of the military who was peacefully walking down the street (really!) in his own nation.

The UK has thus far refused to call this “terrorism” or even more-accurately, Muslim terrorism, despite the attackers yelling “Allah Akbar!” while committing the act.

Now we find out that MI5, the rough equivalent of our FBI, knew he was a terrorist because he was arrested in Kenya on suspicion of planning to fight as a member of a terrorist group.

Kenya deported him — to the UK.

It gets better.

In the UK, of course, the people are generally unarmed, because the government “can take care of anything that might arise.”  Except, of course, two sharp-instrument wielding Muslims who decide to hack the head off a UK citizen on the streets of London.

Over the weekend war memorials were desecrated in London as well.  From the article in the Telegraph:

The RAF Bomber Command War Memorial and the Animals in War Memorial, both in central London, were covered in red paint.

The Metropolitan Police have not yet made any arrests, so the motivation behind the damage remains unclear.

Really?

The motivation is unclear when the graffiti that is scrawled on the memorials reads “ISLAM”?

The first duty of any civilized people is to call things what they are.  A man who hacks the head off another man on the streets of a major city for no reason other than his presence there and screams “Allah Akhbar!” while doing so is a Muslim terrorist and he self-declared a “religious” motivation for his actions.  We need not try him first to determine why he did what he did; he has declared that.  Similarly, a person who defaces a war memorial with the word “ISLAM” has declared the reason for their actions.

There are, quite-clearly, those who see Islam as simply a religion, which the civilized world broadly defines as a means of communication with and reverence for a higher power.  In the United States we respect the right of people to worship as they see fit.

But there also is a multi-hundred-year history, including but not limited to references in the youth of our nation, to Muslim “faith” not as a faith but as a war-mongering political force that has as its common goal the overthrow of established civil order in order to establish itself as the political arm of government complete with its own legal standard known as Sharia without regard to geographical boundaries.

This is not religion; it is the military arm of a political subdivision that has no particular geographic boundary and dates to at least Colonial times and arguably well prior!

We often argue that “military” power must be state-attached to a fixed piece of dirt and that other expressions of that are nothing more than “criminal” elements. Indeed, some of the most-staunch alleged “Libertarians” I know take exactly this sort of position.  

Nothing could be further from the truth.  

Political subdivisions are associated with people; the dirt that collection of people hold (or not) is a historical accident.  This sort of nonsense is promulgated by those who want you to believe in the “power” of a State, as if somehow a line on a map somewhere delineates political power or cohesive thought in action.

Anyone with a hint of intelligence knows better.

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