What's the difference between someone consuming violent
literature and emulating it by butchering people in a movie theater or a
school, and someone who would butcher a policeman in a street full of people?
The answer is that there is no difference. Both have cracked up under a
pressure that was too great for them to handle.
Once again an incident such as that took place – this time
in London, England – and once again the predictable sort of opinions were
voiced by the usual suspects without contributing a scintilla of useful
information that could lead to a solution for this growing problem. Make no
mistake about it, this is a problem that is rooted in part in the fact that
life is becoming more complex therefore more conducive to people cracking up
under pressure in response to the slightest of provocation.
The problem of young men cracking up and going on a
murderous rampage seems to be handled with an approach that has merit. In the United States of America ,
for example, a campaign to root out violence in the sports, and root out
bullying in the schools has begun. This is a sensible thing to do; it is an
approach that will certainly help. As to the sort of problems we saw examples
of in Boston USA and London UK, the solution would not be very different except
for the fact that it will require much more political courage than is displayed
in Europe or America at this time.
Douglas Murray is associate director of the Henry Jackson
Society, a so-called think tank based in London ,
England Britain has
been in denial about the Islamist threat. Time to face it down.” When you're
about to read the article and you see this, you automatically think he is going
to lay out a solution or at least suggest one – after all, he is a think
tanker, is he not?
And so, after reading the first question that he asks: “How
many ignored warnings does it take?” you keep reading and reading and reading
as you keep asking: Where is the thinking? Where is the thinking? Where is the
thinking? But you detect no thinking about a solution to the problem. This goes
on and on and on till you hit the last sentence: “The only question should be
what we do about it.” That's all the thinking he can do? And so you decide it
is time to flush this tank down the drain and into the sewer where it belongs.
What is it that really happened in England over
the past few years? What happened is that people of Pakistani origin, and now
people of West African origin committed acts of horror. The first were labeled
thugs, and the second were labeled barbarians. And the definition of these two
words is exactly where you must begin the search. The English word “thug” has
its origin on the Indian subcontinent. It refers to individuals who resort to
violence when settling scores. As to the English word “barbarian” it has its
origin in West Africa . It refers to a tribe that
resorts to violent means when settling scores.
This says that the people who committed thuggish and
barbaric acts in England
acted more in the tradition of the old cultures from which they or their
parents came rather than the religion to which they say they adhere – a
religion they knew little or nothing about till they started reading about it
recently. The Pakistanis must have felt insulted and discriminated against
because of their origin, and so they went looking for a vehicle through which
to get back at the society that marginalized them. They found that Islam was
treated as badly as they were, and it was this combination of being denigrated
both as a person and a member of a group that pushed them over the edge, and
cracked them.
As to the West African, he was a Christian who converted to
Islam because he felt he was treated as badly as the Muslims and wanted to feel
like he belonged somewhere. He committed his dreadful act while shouting an
expression he did not learn from studying Islam but from watching television in
England .
He shouted “Allahu akbar” which is the Arab equivalent of “my God,” an
utterance that the Arabs vocalize when seeing something big happen such as a
Muslim dissident blowing up the tank of his Muslim government. And there is
nothing religious about Muslim on Muslim violence.
So what's the solution? Well, in the same way that bullying
in the schools, and violence in the sports are being rooted out in America ,
cultural violence in the printed press, in the audio-visuals and in all forms
of activities must be dealt with when it comes to the subtle and not-so-subtle messages which
are deliberately planted in such activities. For example, don't just come out
and condemn acts of violence committed against Israelis, come out and condemn
acts of violence committed against Palestinians too.
Also, the Israeli leaders have developed the technique of communicating
to the Arab and Muslim worlds the message that no matter what the leaders of
the “Western” world say, the truth is that they have complete control of the
West, and they have pitted it against Islam. The war on Islam is on.
How do they accomplish this? Well, they get themselves invited to visit Washington or London or Paris . Hours before they
leave Israel ,
they send their American made jets to blow up unarmed Palestinian men, women
and children minding their business in their homes. This tells the Arabs and
the Muslims that the Western war on Islam is on, and it is commanded by the
Jews and the Israelis.
And so, if you want to send a different message to the Arabs and the
Muslims, you can do something next time this happens. Tell those Jewish and
Israeli filthy animals to stay home, and not show their ugly and disgusting
faces here – now or ever. This will be the solution that will work like a
miracle.