Yesterday, I wrote about societies choosing to jail anti-Islamist dissidents and innocent Muslim civilians who are being threatened with honor murder or with other atrocities. I asked how big the jail would have to be and whether societies could actually afford to protect the innocent from the fanatically murderous. Clearly, we can not afford to sacrifice them to a political death-cult either.
Today, Benazir Bhutto’s assassination forces me to re-frame the question. When will societies finally start jailing the assassins en masse? And those who teach and fund them to blow their opponents up, to “speak” with the sword not the pen?
Today, Benazir Bhutto’s death also forces me to remind us all that the world chose not to stop suicide killers when their targets were mainly Jews and Israelis. That method has proliferated globally. A suicide killer has now assassinated a westernized Muslim woman leader–one who, wearing a headscarf, bravely returned to Pakistan with a vision of democracy.
I have no illusions about Benazir’s feminism or moral innocence. She was far from perfect–who is?–but on her head and in her blood I must say: It is time for the West to offer asylum to those innocent Pakistani civilians who wish to flee (and make sure they are who they say they are), and then fence all Pakistan in, run a wall up to the sky, include Waziristan and the tribal lands between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Just wall them in and wait for them to turn on each other; they surely will.
Muslim-on-Muslim violence is the largest untold story in the politically correct West.
If it works with Pakistan–let’s consider continuing the wall country by country. In the end, it may actually cost less to jail the assassins than to jail their innocent prey.
To Taslima Nasreen I say: If you value your life, return to Scandinavia while you have the chance.
Benazir: Rest in Peace. May your death be a turning point, may it inspire your long-suffering people and their leaders to finally say NO! to death cult suicide killers; NO! to Islamism; NO! to despotism.
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George Jochnowitz:Muslims, O Muslims, you’ve just got to kill.
Dec 27, 2007 - 5:31 pm steve bourg:If you have faith, you must find the will.
O Pakistanis, you’ve just got to slay.
The mercy of Jihad teaches: Death is the way.
Faithful of Islam, you all hate the Jews.
Yet you must battle, despite your shared views.
Killing a Muslim is certainly sad,
But refraining from killing is sinfully bad.
Good points Phyllis, some too extreme of course, but others not extreme enough. For ex, countries intending to become stable democracies, such as Pakistan and Iraq, need to jail the clerics who preach violence (and perhaps execute them by law). We got rid of one minor instigator of suicide bombers (Saddam, paying families $25,000) but now we have to get serious with Iran. We have a situation in muslim countries where the jihadists’ Job One is to destroy the democracies and create anarchy. This must be dealt with harshly, be it their own militaries or with our help.
Dec 27, 2007 - 5:31 pm Norman Simms:The assassination, as Phyllis so ably points out, is one more potent reminder of what we–the West in general, Jews in particular–we are up against. But walling in Pakistan is not enough, after all, they have the bomb and perhaps the delivery system. Like the Syrians and the Iranians, the Pakistanis have to go through regime change eventually; until then, they need regime control. Israel has never properly won a war, in the sense of going right into the capitals and destroying the state apparatus that foments wars. The Americans have done something of the sort in Iraq, but not committed themselves sufficiently to carry through. Neither the British nor the Americans can leave soon–or, if they do, there will be much suffering as a consequence.
Dec 27, 2007 - 6:53 pm Carol Gould:Here is an observation I would like to share tonight: I am staying with a friend in Barnet, a very English ( few Muslims, few blacks, few Jews) village in Hertfordshire. I went out tonight to the local pub and found a crowd of young Britons drinking masses of alcohol. I stayed for about an hour and watched in fascination as they downed beer after beer and talked incessantly about how plastered they had been in previous outings. It was phenomenal to witness a fairly large group of yong people wth nothing on their minds except the volume of alcohol they had consumed and will consume. No discussion of anything — not even the football scores — just how ‘f’ing’ sloshed they had been and were planning to get. I then migrated to a fashionable local bistro and found a higher class of Brit at various tables discussing anything and everything but Benazir’s death. I feel this event in Pakistan is an earthquake, but cannot find anyone to talk to about it here in London. This reminded me of the day after the Rabin assassination in 1995, and indeed the day the USS Cole was bombed and the two Israeli reservists were disembowelled in Ramallah ( both events on 12 October 2000) ; in every public place I went I could find only chattering Londoners who seemed oblivious to the Rabin murder, and later on to the Cole and Ramallah events and so forth. I find it ironic that Britain left Palestine and India/Pakistan behind, and these days the population of this little island nation seems blissfully unconcerned about the turbulent regions they left behind. Anyway, my two cents. RIP, Benazir.
Dec 27, 2007 - 7:42 pm David Thomson:“I feel this event in Pakistan is an earthquake..”
It is something of an earthquake. But the cost of acknowledgement is very high. The typical Westerner prefers to pretend that nothing really dangerous is occurring. Maybe the situation will resolve itself by tomorrow morning. Perhaps things will work out differently than they did before WWII broke out. One can always hope.
Dec 28, 2007 - 1:47 am Mama Palama:The notion of democracy - an evolutionary process - and that of an Islamic dominated or infiltrated country “promising” to become one - is illusionary.
Pouring tons of American taxpayer money and other supports to maintain an alliance with Pakistan -with Islamic States through huge financial contributions to Egypt, Jordan, and in the billions to the rump NGO of “Palestine” abetted in their egregious war against the little bit of earth that is Israel, indeed against Jewish right to existence is a blunderous policy.
The war is not against the Jews alone - the war is against the world, the one we live in! At least the ones that sought and won for democracy, the hope of tranquility and true peace!
Indeed, do we in the West understand what compelled Mde Benazir Bhutto to risk her life in an effort to have her continue her family’s legacy? To set up rulership dominion over Pakistan? Was it out of a belief in entitlement? Hegemonic dynasty? Oh, or was it really just about the Presidency? Surely not a vision of establishing democracy! Could it be engaging in a version of playing America against the Russians which Middle Eastern Islamic dictatorships - as have African - do so well? The stakes to be gained are very profitable indeed for those in position of rule and power.
The notion that humanity which binds us transcends all may in the final analysis be illusionary as well.
The operating principle of the universe attends to the one of oppositional frequency in which the battle of good and evil ever turns and our mission toward healing the rift appears to be a forever one.
Dec 28, 2007 - 4:11 am B Dubya:Have no fear. The UN and the sitting members of the UN Security Council will move quickly to resolve this problem.
Oh, wait…the UN is already engaged in Darfur (did they get those last 6 helicopters they needed to actually deploy, yet?) and is already maxed out on the Global Climate Change scam…
Jail? I don’t think thats gonna quite do it.
Dec 28, 2007 - 9:01 am zeke:You know, Nazism is illegal in Germany. Yes, that’s a restriction of political freedom, but has been deemed a necessary one.
WHY NOT make Jihadism illegal in the West, including the (Saudi-funded) preaching of Jihad which is now ubiquitous? This could include visa and immigration restrictions based on a broadly-defined Jihadist behaviour found in the applicant’s background. Or perhaps require a formal renunciation of Jihadism.
Dec 28, 2007 - 12:08 pm Mama Palama:Refined comment:
“Benazir Bhutto Murdered: Democracy on life support” by Evrviglnt (http://politicalvindication.com/?p=1590) is an excellent summation of Pakistanian reality. That the assassination of Mde Bhutto was the measure taken to void any direction toward democratization in that State. Qaeda/Islam’s terrorist enterprises poised against voting for Pakistan’s leadership as the earmark of democracy was its target.
Though frankly, perhaps cynically, I believe Mde Bhutto’s motivations was for grab at power and gaining support was less about agreement with Western/democratic ideals than strategic.
Under what influences would Mde Bhutto have come if indeed were she to have been elected in a democratic election? Remote as her winning would very likely have been? Punished as unpredictability and “wayward” inclination under Islamic rule perhaps her efforts were indeed either most foolish or most brave.
What’s been lost we - certainly Pakistan - will never come to know. Not if Qaeda and its cohort infrastructure have anything to do with it.
Ever more reason why America must prevail both here and abroad.
Dec 29, 2007 - 3:02 pm