Britain... terrorist haven no longer

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Britain... terrorist haven no longer
Topic Started: Aug 8 2005, 11:09 AM (297 Views)
kentcouncil	Aug 8 2005, 11:09 AM Post #1
Fulla-Carp Posts: 2,736 Group: Members Member #87 Joined: April 19, 2005	I read this in the Weekly Standard, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "The dreadful irony of Britain's status as a liberal haven in which terrorists are protected by the very society which they seek to destroy was well illustrated when Ramzi Mohammed, one of the failed bombers in the July 21 attacks, was finally arrested. As police moved towards him, this jihadi who, one imagines, is just itching to get Britain's fuddy-duddy old liberal laws replaced by the sturdier prescriptions of sharia, shouted: 'I have rights! I have rights!'"
	It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't. - P.G. Wodehouse


The 89th Key	Aug 8 2005, 01:23 PM Post #2
Posts: 36,125 Group: Moderators Member #209 Joined: May 19, 2005	Funny thing, a few months ago I remember reading up on the explosive growth of mosques. Pun intended.



FrankM	Aug 8 2005, 04:28 PM Post #3
Senior Carp Posts: 1,940 Group: Members Member #67 Joined: April 19, 2005	kentcouncil Aug 8 2005, 03:09 PM I read this in the Weekly Standard, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "The dreadful irony of Britain's status as a liberal haven in which terrorists are protected by the very society which they seek to destroy was well illustrated when Ramzi Mohammed, one of the failed bombers in the July 21 attacks, was finally arrested. As police moved towards him, this jihadi who, one imagines, is just itching to get Britain's fuddy-duddy old liberal laws replaced by the sturdier prescriptions of sharia, shouted: 'I have rights! I have rights!'" Is that an example of cognitive dissonance? Somehow reminds of the old joke where the kid who killed his parents pleaded for sympathy and understanding from the jury because he was an orphan.


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