"I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history."
Cardinal Francis George
London's Ramadan attacks on "Crusaders"
Statue of Crusader and English King Richard I the Lionheart. As demographics change, London's growing Muslim population will almost certainly object to his statue as offensive in the next few years.
Britain is among the least religious nations in the world. A Win/Gallup Poll found only 30% of the UK population call themselves religious, which reflects other polls and surveys.
So it seems odd that the Islamic State sent out a call on instant messaging service Telegram early on Saturday morning on June 4, 2017 morning urging its followers to carry out attacks with trucks, knives and guns against "Crusaders" during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is marked by a predictable annual spike in Muslim 'extremist' violence.
Only a few hours later on Saturday night, three Jihadists attacked in a busy corridor of London's nightlife. They drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing revelers nearby.
The attack came only two weeks after 22 children and adults were killed at an Ariana Grande pop concert in Manchester England.
In March, in a attack similar to Saturday's, five people died after a man drove into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in central London and stabbed a policeman.
Reuters states Islamist militants have carried out unprecedented scores of deadly attacks in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the United States over the past two years.
News sources quoted UK PM Theresa May responding to the attacks by declaring "enough is enough." "We believe we are experiencing a new trend in the threat we face as terrorism breeds terrorism," May said.
"Perpetrators are inspired to attack not only on the basis of carefully constructed plots ... and not even as lone attackers radicalized online, but by copying one another and often using the crudest of means of attack."
She said the series of attacks were not connected in terms of planning and execution, but were inspired by what she called a "single, evil ideology of Islamist extremism" that represented a perversion of Islam and of the truth. She said this ideology had to be confronted both abroad and at home.
"While we have made significant progress in recent years, there is - to be frank - far too much tolerance of extremism in our country," she said, urging Britons to be more robust in stamping it out in the public sector and in wider society.
U.S. President Donald Trump, taking to Twitter on Sunday, urged the world to stop being "politically correct" in order to ensure public security against terrorism.
Jihadists are consistently coming up with new and more violent ways to push the West to chaos and ultimately, surrender. Combining terror with Muslim migration to Western nations, Islamic culture and customs are becoming more obvious in the West.
Besides an orthodox emphasis on prayer and religious diet, Islamists bring a 1400 year tradition of observing Sharia law.
A poll commissioned in May 2015 by the Center for Security Policy showed that 51 percent of American Muslims preferred that they should have their own Sharia courts outside of the legal system ruled by the U.S. Constitution. And nearly a quarter believed the use of violent jihad was justified in establishing Sharia.
Sharia law courts are gradually being openly established in the West. In the USA, participants submit to them 'voluntarily' like an arbitration or mediation panel. Of course there is no way of knowing how much pressure is put on members of tight Muslim communities to submit to Sharia.
In the UK, there's evidence that women are being abused in UK Sharia Courts. Ultimately the goal is subversion of the Western system of democratic republics, modeled on the US Constitution.
William Wagner, writing for the Family Research Council, addressed the issue now magnified by Carson in his article, “Islam, Shariah Law, and the American Constitution:”
“With the patient planting of new enclaves, the process of establishing the parallel society and political system has begun. Those behind this process seem willing to master an understanding of the occupied country’s government and legal system, systematically dismantling it while building the framework for an Islamic theocracy as its replacement. Such a replacement, when complete, dogmatically declares a different kind of absolute than the self-evident Truths, which undergird the American Constitution.”
Historically, almost all nations which have had large populations of Muslims, establish an Islamic theocracy and mandate Sharia law to all people. Once a Muslim theocracy is established, rulers insist on indigenous populations converting to Islam.
Muslim controlled nations have subjected indigenous Christians to suffer discrimination and persecution over centuries. Christians would have to pay a tax or tribute called jizya for the privilege to live as a Christian under Sharia. Muslim nation-states no longer demand jizya, though the Islamic state and regional rulers like the Taliban reportedly demand it. Still, Christians suffer genocide today even in so-called moderate Muslim theocracies like Jordan and Egypt.
The Islamic State asking for vengeance against today's Western 'Crusaders' makes sense in the context of Islamic historical and perpetual intolerance for, and genocide of, Christians.
The UK allows religious liberty for Christianity, something absolutely not acceptable under Sharia law.
So it seems odd that the Islamic State sent out a call on instant messaging service Telegram early on Saturday morning on June 4, 2017 morning urging its followers to carry out attacks with trucks, knives and guns against "Crusaders" during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is marked by a predictable annual spike in Muslim 'extremist' violence.
Only a few hours later on Saturday night, three Jihadists attacked in a busy corridor of London's nightlife. They drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing revelers nearby.
The attack came only two weeks after 22 children and adults were killed at an Ariana Grande pop concert in Manchester England.
In March, in a attack similar to Saturday's, five people died after a man drove into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in central London and stabbed a policeman.
Reuters states Islamist militants have carried out unprecedented scores of deadly attacks in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the United States over the past two years.
News sources quoted UK PM Theresa May responding to the attacks by declaring "enough is enough." "We believe we are experiencing a new trend in the threat we face as terrorism breeds terrorism," May said.
"Perpetrators are inspired to attack not only on the basis of carefully constructed plots ... and not even as lone attackers radicalized online, but by copying one another and often using the crudest of means of attack."
She said the series of attacks were not connected in terms of planning and execution, but were inspired by what she called a "single, evil ideology of Islamist extremism" that represented a perversion of Islam and of the truth. She said this ideology had to be confronted both abroad and at home.
"While we have made significant progress in recent years, there is - to be frank - far too much tolerance of extremism in our country," she said, urging Britons to be more robust in stamping it out in the public sector and in wider society.
U.S. President Donald Trump, taking to Twitter on Sunday, urged the world to stop being "politically correct" in order to ensure public security against terrorism.
Jihadists are consistently coming up with new and more violent ways to push the West to chaos and ultimately, surrender. Combining terror with Muslim migration to Western nations, Islamic culture and customs are becoming more obvious in the West.
Besides an orthodox emphasis on prayer and religious diet, Islamists bring a 1400 year tradition of observing Sharia law.
A poll commissioned in May 2015 by the Center for Security Policy showed that 51 percent of American Muslims preferred that they should have their own Sharia courts outside of the legal system ruled by the U.S. Constitution. And nearly a quarter believed the use of violent jihad was justified in establishing Sharia.
Sharia law courts are gradually being openly established in the West. In the USA, participants submit to them 'voluntarily' like an arbitration or mediation panel. Of course there is no way of knowing how much pressure is put on members of tight Muslim communities to submit to Sharia.
In the UK, there's evidence that women are being abused in UK Sharia Courts. Ultimately the goal is subversion of the Western system of democratic republics, modeled on the US Constitution.
William Wagner, writing for the Family Research Council, addressed the issue now magnified by Carson in his article, “Islam, Shariah Law, and the American Constitution:”
“With the patient planting of new enclaves, the process of establishing the parallel society and political system has begun. Those behind this process seem willing to master an understanding of the occupied country’s government and legal system, systematically dismantling it while building the framework for an Islamic theocracy as its replacement. Such a replacement, when complete, dogmatically declares a different kind of absolute than the self-evident Truths, which undergird the American Constitution.”
Historically, almost all nations which have had large populations of Muslims, establish an Islamic theocracy and mandate Sharia law to all people. Once a Muslim theocracy is established, rulers insist on indigenous populations converting to Islam.
Muslim controlled nations have subjected indigenous Christians to suffer discrimination and persecution over centuries. Christians would have to pay a tax or tribute called jizya for the privilege to live as a Christian under Sharia. Muslim nation-states no longer demand jizya, though the Islamic state and regional rulers like the Taliban reportedly demand it. Still, Christians suffer genocide today even in so-called moderate Muslim theocracies like Jordan and Egypt.
The Islamic State asking for vengeance against today's Western 'Crusaders' makes sense in the context of Islamic historical and perpetual intolerance for, and genocide of, Christians.
The UK allows religious liberty for Christianity, something absolutely not acceptable under Sharia law.
One of more than 30 Serbian Orthodox Christian Churches destroyed by NATO and Albanian Muslim forces in 1999. Serbia is filing suit against NATO for war crimes. ISIL has established a presence in Albania and reportedly runs the drug trade.
