UK - The face of terror

I have several issues with this London Times article.

Let's start with their headline and byline. The headline says "The face of terror" and the byline says "Britons need to know about the fanaticism that threatens them". I agree, so why isn't the headline "The face of Islamic terror"? In their headline and byline the Times fails to mention the name of the threat that they claim we need to know about.

Speaking of Barot's sentence the Times has this to say:

"...it is also a clear message to other fanatics abusing the name of Islam that a democracy will take whatever measures are needed to protect itself from such evil."

Well for starters, failing to name the true enemy certainly isn't taking "whatever measures are needed to protect itself". The phrase "abusing the name of Islam" isn't a true picture of Islam today. Is Saudi Arabia abusing Islam by persecuting Christians? Are they abusing Islam when their school text books call Christians and Jews, apes and pigs and tells Muslims not to take infidels as friends? Is Iran's hanging of gays abusing Islam? Is this fanatics abusing Islam?

Here is a partial list: the savage Shiites-Sunnis bloodletting in Iraq; the barbarism of the resurging Taliban in Afghanistan; the genocide in Sudan’s Darfur; the Somalis killings; the Iranian mullahs murder of their own people and support of mischief abroad; the cross-border attack on Israel by Lebanese Hizbollah; the incessant terrorist acts of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatwa of the Palestinians against Israel; the bombing of Shiites mosques in Pakistan and the Shiites retaliation against easy innocent civilian targets.

Clearly, there is no place on the planet where Muslims reside that is in peace from the religion of peace. Spain, France, Holland, England Thailand, and Indonesia, have already been attacked while others such as Belgium have been threatened and sanctioned."

Islam is not being abused, Islam is the problem and until the West admits this, we are not doing all we can to protect ourselves.

The Times article also illustrates how the left are undermining the war on terror.

"The security services mounted one of the largest operations undertaken to monitor and unravel his plot, but were up against a level of sophistication and terrorist training rarely seen until now. Their success in cracking encrypted messages, penetrating hidden computer data and identifying electronic keys and terrorist paraphernalia is remarkable."

Remember how the New York Times revealed the NSA wiretaps and SWIFT banking programs from a leak by disgruntled CIA employees? Remember how the Democrats and left wing media went nuts over it and eventually killed the original Patriot Act? Harry Reid celebrated their victory.

The Times ends with this:

"The Barot case underlines the character of terrorism, its international tentacles, chameleon adaptability and ability to exploit Western fads and weaknesses. It should, and will, make more urgent the need to penetrate and disarm the mindset that kills in the name of a deity. It is a threat that no democratic society can ignore."

We may not be ignoring it but we certainly aren't "taking whatever measures are need[ed] to protect" ourselves.

Hamaza the Hook recruited Barot and in the wake of the Muslim 7/7 terror attacks on London, PM Tony Blair promised to deport the Muslim imams of hate. To date not one has been deported.

Still think that "a democracy will take whatever measures are needed to protect itself from such evil."? We're not even close.