Re: Why Europe is so Contrary

From: Alan Patrick (a.patrick@btinternet.com)
Date: Mon 18 Nov 2002 - 05:02:36 GMT

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    > Oty has to do with the root causes for the European reticence to
    > engage a dire terrorist threat: fear. Quite simply, they are afraid to
    piss
    > off the maniacs; they would much rather snub the reasonable people,
    > because the reasonable people will not answer with truckbombs,
    > airplanes flown into skyscrapers, and poison gas in subway systems.
    > What the Europeans fail to realize is that they, inasmuch as they are
    > not Islamic and ruled by shar'ia law, will receive these attacks anyway,
    > simply because of who they are; part of the infidel Dar el Harb, and an
    > affront to Allah. Chamberlain once, as Churchill phrased it, had a
    > choice between war and dishonor, chose dishonor, and still got war.
    > Vis-a-vis Radical Muslim terrorists (Al Quaeda and others) and those
    > who would supply them with WMD's, many Europeans are facing the
    > same choice, and are making it in the same way that Chamberlain did.
    > Fear is a visceral memetic hook, sometimes overriding both logic and
    > the urge to freedom.
    > >
    > > Alan
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