Britain - Terrorism: It's Not About Iraq

Or Afghanistan or the Palestinians for that matter.

Melanie Phillips points out two must read articles for anyone who thinks the London terror attacks had anything to do with Iraq. They didn't.

First from The Business Online.

Then there is Iraq. In the most stupid intervention so far by a major British politician, Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy tried to link the country's vulnerability to terrorism to Britain's intervention in Iraq. Our memory might sometimes fail us but we seem to remember that the jihadists who inspired the London atrocity were bombing New York's Twin Towers and Paris subway stations a full decade before the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Moreover, the brutal reality of today's Iraq is not that it is a crucible for terrorists out to bomb London but that it is under attack from the very same sort of terrorists who have bombed London. Musab al-Zaqawi, the Jordanian jihadist, is currently slaughtering thousands of innocent Iraqis on the streets of Baghdad on a much grander scale than Londoners were slaughtered on 7/7 -- all because he would rather have civil war between Sunni and Shia Muslims rather than peace and democracy.

Last week he had the head of the Egyptian ambassador to Iraq hacked off because he believes that all earthly governments are an affront to Allah. At the same time his bombers were killing and maiming scores of Iraqi children. Anybody who thinks that the beheading and the bombing (in London or Baghdad) will stop - and that video copies of the beheading will no longer be passed around outside London mosques, as they were this week - only when the last British soldier leaves Basra is an idiot. We will know Britain's Muslim leaders have come of age when they stop bellyaching about the invasion of Iraq, start realising that the people of London and Baghdad face a common jihadist enemy, condemn unreservedly killers like Mr Zaqawi and urge their young people to turn against him and his kind.

Next, PM Tony Blair's speech.

If it is Afghanistan that motivates them, why blow up innocent Afghans on their way to their first ever election? If it is Iraq that motivates them, why is the same ideology killing Iraqis by terror in defiance of an elected Iraqi government?

What was September 11, 2001 the reprisal for? Why even after the first Madrid bomb (in March 2004) and the election of a new Spanish government, were they planning another atrocity when caught?

What this is about, is Islam's desire to rule the world.
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