The Little Weasel

It looks like the British didn`t learn their lesson. Following the terrorist bombings in London, MP`s were falling over themselves in the mad rush to pass legislation granting Moslems special protection under the law.

What heinous acts of hatred spurred this? Somebody threw a rock through a Mosque window! Oh the horror! It`s clear that the British populace is out of control, with mobs rampaging the streets breaking out one whole window in their fury at the poor, innocent Moslem terrorists!!! Had Parliament not acted, we would have been treated to such abominable acts as toilet papering trees and lawn jobs. Oh, the Humanity!

I am confident that British law offers adequate protections to people of all Religions. Why does the British government feel it necessary to grant special rights and protections to a minority group (hate crimes laws can only be described as special rights), a group which happens to engage in vitriolic rhetoric against their host country and launches occasional terrorist attacks?

We have the answer to that one; the British are engaging in appeasement. They want to ``Covenant`` with the Islamic World, offering safe harbor in return for peace. They`ll stand by us in Iraq, but won`t clean out the rats nest of terrorist thugs at home. They believed up until the London bombings (and, obviously, Parliament still believes) that peace can be bought. Didn`t they learn anything from Churchill?

Perhaps they should study the statistics. Although this recent poll shows that support for terrorism is dropping in the Islamic World, there are still a majority which favors violence to attain their ends, and, of all peoples, the British should understand that they can`t play games here.

Why are so many Moslems living in Britain? That is the question that Parliament should be asking. There really is no reason for Britain to have such a sizable Islamic minority. What is attracting Moslems? Is it the food? Is it the pub scene? The wonderful weather? Or is there something which can`t be had in France or Holland, something which a Moslem would value more highly?

What attracts people to the United States? People come here for freedom. I suspect Moslems are going to Britain for freedom also, but not the freedom we think of when we use the term. I suspect the Imams are looking for OPERATIONAL freedom, the freedom to function and act without fear of being stopped. It looks like Britain is supplying that freedom, and will continue to supply it in the future.

Britain had better face the facts; terrorists have an insatiable appetite for destruction, and they will feed wherever they can find prey. If they aren`t successful abroad, they will strike at home. This, I think, was as much a factor as any; terrorists were finding it difficult to strike at the ``Great Satan`` so they chose instead to attack the Little Weasel (the weasel being so much easier.)

Covenants do not matter to these people. Britain had better learn that lesson now, or they will learn it in a far more painful fashion later.