When you think about it, it is quite strange that thuggish juvenile delinquents have been left free to threaten civilized society with beheading and butchering, and that society hasn’t slapped them upside the head and far worse. It is stranger still that the adult mentors of these thugs are not thrown in jail for life. It is unbelievable that any society would seek to understand the grievances of these young criminals when they take the logic of their actions a step further and try to blow a dozen airplanes out of the sky. Janet Daley shares some thoughts:

This enemy does not even bother to offer explanations for its actions that fall within the acceptable bounds of Western debate: it is overtly racist, explicitly imperialistic and unapologetically inhumane. So it is left to the media to make the apologias. First, the home-grown terrorist threat was the fault of racist Britain for denying opportunity and educational advancement to Muslim youth. Then it turned out that most of those involved in the propagation of terrorism were middle-class and university-educated.

At least two of the suspects arrested in the latest alleged plot are converts to Islam: they cannot be said to have suffered a lifetime of embittering discrimination for their newly embraced faith. This phenomenon is more reminiscent of Baader-Meinhoff than of the intifada – a fanatical cult of rebellious malcontents who are “alienated” (the word of the moment) by the actions of their government and the mores of their country.

This pernicious nonsense is treated by the BBC as if it were the height of reasonableness.

When a committee of Muslim spokesmen announces that, while it condemns violence etc, it nevertheless finds it somehow understandable that Muslim youth should be so “alienated” by the Government’s foreign policy that they become willing recruits to a murderous lunatic sect, their statement is described as a bid for peace rather than a blatant piece of blackmail. What exactly does it mean, this message of “peace”: that you can only be safe if we get the foreign policy we want – otherwise some of us may feel justified in blowing you out of the sky? That is what most of the broadcast vox pops on the British Muslim street seem to imply. Is this what the majority of the Muslim community really wants said in its name?

I find it hard to believe that the gentle, devoted Muslim families who I know feel this way. But perhaps the BBC believes that it is helping race relations in Britain by pointing a microphone at every young male hothead on the streets of Walthamstow and Birmingham, without bothering to ask who he speaks for, how many people he represents, whether even his parents agree with him.

How did society become so guillt-ridden that it lost all common sense? Can you believe that people actually put up with being lectured that it is understandable that “youth” turn to violence if their favorite foreign policies are not enacted? It’s well past time to take out the trash. Time for the kuffars to stop acting like pigs and monkeys, get up on their hind legs, and put the wood to the kind of kids the cops would have beaten up in 1955. And that goes for their creepy imam mentors too. And while we’re at it, throw out the MSM — they, as much as anyone, have empowered this molehill and made it seem a mountain.

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