Monday, July 25, 2005

HG Wells sees the future for London

Fire of Liberty

Niall Ferguson has a wonderful Opinion piece in yesterday's The Sunday Telegraph (registration required) on how this fight against terrorism is similar to the War of Worlds that HG Wells describes in his fantastic book. What I gleam from Ferguson's wonderful piece is that the leadership and people of London should prepare itself for a future fight against the forces of evil that has hit it's shores. In order to escape a future London looking like another downtown Beirut ala 1980's, they've got to toss out the whole chimera of multiculturalism and a head in the sand approach towards fundametalistic Islam and it's preachers of hate. I think Ferguson summed up the silly nature of these policies in the following paragraphs:
Last week, Ken Livingstone - who is proving as inept in this crisis as Rudy Giuliani was inspiring in New York after 9/11 - repeatedly provided on-air justifications for the Islamikaze bombers, portraying the terrorist organization Hamas as morally equivalent to the Israeli army, which he accused of having "done horrendous things which border on crimes against humanity".

The same Ken Livingstone last year invited the Qatar-based Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi to London. Among al-Qaradawi's recent statements are the following: "It has been determined by Islamic law that the blood and property of people of Dar al-Harb [the domain of the infidel] is not protected. Because they fight against and are hostile towards the Muslims, they have forfeited the protection of their blood and their property.

"Allah has also made the prophet Mohammed into an ideal for mujahideen [religious warriors] since he ordered Mohammed to fight for religion. The first assignment is to prepare the hero who is willing to put his life in his own hands for Allah's sake, and who does not care whether he encounters death or death encounters him. He wants to scare his enemies, and the religious authorities have permitted this. They have said that if he causes the enemy both sorrow and fear of Muslims, he is permitted to risk himself and even get killed."

Al-Qaradawi may not come from Mars, but he seems every bit as intent on the destruction of our civilisation as Wells's invaders. Fortunately, he is an alien according to the law of the land and so it is within the power of the Home Secretary to prevent his returning to Britain, which he is scheduled to do next month.

The same, alas, cannot be said of Mufti Zubair Dudha, who has published at least one work extolling "the benefits, fruits and blessings of physical jihad". According to The Times last week, Mr Dudha teaches at his own Islamic Tarbiyah academy in Dewsbury - home of Mohammed Sadique Khan, one of the 7/7 suicide bombers.

Mr Dudha declares that "the enemies of Allah" are striving "to poison the thinking and minds of [Muslim] youth and to plant the spirit of unsteadiness and moral depravity in their lives". We must all fervently hope that the enemies of Allah succeed in their endeavours and that Mr Dudha's fundamentalist prophylaxis fails. After all, it was poison - in the form of germs to which they had no resistance - that did for Wells's invading Martians and saved London from an alien takeover.
Let's hope that the folks in London get wise about how these policies are setting up the death of their nation. After 7/21, I think they're thinking hard about how the UK can turn back the tide. It always helps when people like Niall Ferguson write such eye opening pieces like this. So, check it out.

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