"After last Sunday's lethal terrorism farce, there's an overwhelming public view that 'we can't go on like this'
But ... that means a step-change in attitudes which successive governments have been unwilling to make.
There may well be a good case for beefing up sentences for terrorists. But by themselves, such measures won't be enough [because]
what motivates [the terrorists] is the unshaken belief that they have a God-given mission to kill as many 'infidels' as possible
and be killed themselves in the process ... Islam's history is one of holy war and conquest" [source]

Its All About the Narrative. Who Controls It, Wins  (05 February 2020)

"Are we seeing a crack developing in the hitherto impregnable 'human rights' dogma which has helped emasculate Britain's defences against terrorism? In the wake of the latest Islamic terror attack last Sunday in London ... the government has indicated it will scrap automatic early release for such prisoners ... The 'human rights' lobby has consistently and largely successfully fought attempts over the years to strengthen the law against terrorism..."

Britain Is Losing the Fight Against Extremism  (04 February 2020)  (£)

"For the second time in just over two months, terrorism on Britain's streets has descended into lethal farce ... all the evidence suggests that deradicalisation programmes both inside and outside prison are singularly ineffectual. That's not ust because of the chaos in the under-resourced prison and probation system. It's because of a conceptual error: the belief that the power of reason can be used against fanatics who believe in killing infidels and 'martyring' themselves in the name of God..."

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Muslim  (04 February 2020)

"The case of Sudesh Amman, gunned down by the police after stabbing two random passers-by in Streatham, reminds us yet again of an uncomfortable truth. When it comes to Muslim terrorism especially, our law is ordure because it proceeds from a wrong notion. Western governments fall over themselves trying to ascribe every such atrocity to individual grievances or idiosyncrasies. Heaven forbid they accept that people's actions just might be motivated by their faith. Assorted leaders feel duty-bound to insist that the terrorists' faith has nothing to do with their behaviour. The omnipresent mantra maintains that 'Islam is a religion of peace'..."

It Is Islam That Provided the Foundation for the Streatham Terrorist's Jihad Atrocity not Just the Internet or Prison  (04 February 2020)

"Over the years I've noticed a marked similarity with the sorts of statements put out by the families of British Muslims when their offspring or relatives are caught planning or have been killed during an Islamic terror attack. These statements often contain the phrases, 'he was radicalised by the internet' or 'we didn't know he was going to do jihad' or 'we had no idea he was radicalised'..."

Streatham Terrorist Told Fellow Inmate He Wanted to Kill A Politician  (04 February 2020)

"Sudesh Amman, 20, who stabbed two people in Streatham just ten days after being released from Belmarsh prison, told a fellow inmate that he was intent on emulating the murder of MP Jo Cox, saying that he wanted to do 'something real'. Amman's fellow inmate told The Times that the dead jihadist told him, 'The only way to get these filthy kafirs [non-believers] out of Syria is to take out MPs like that white guy did with the lady in 2016'..."

Isis Claims Streatham Terror Attack, Gove Considers Ways to Contain Other Islamist Prisoners  (03 February 2020)

"Sudesh Amman, 20, was under active surveillance when he began stabbing people in Streatham, having been released on license automatically through an already short three-year sentence for terrorism offences. The attack, which has now been claimed by the Islamic State, is the second to have been carried out by a terrorist freed from prison early in the last three months, with the London Bridge killer Usman Khan having also been out 'on license' when he struck..."

The Streatham Terror Attack - As Expected It's Islam Again  (03 February 2020)

"Many of us expected that the appalling terror attack carried out by a knifeman in Streatham, South London would eventually be revealed to be one carried out by a person motivated by Islam. It turns out that we were correct. The perpetrator of this knife jihad attack ... was not a maddened Methodist or a mentally disjointed Jain and certainly not one of the 'far right' extremists whom the government insist should be taken as seriously as the far greater number of Islamic terrorists..."

Streatham Knifeman Named, Was Convicted Terrorist Released From Prison Early  (02 February 2020)

"Releasing convicts serving non-life, so-called determinate sentences halfway through their terms, automatically, is standard practice in the UK, with few exceptions. Britain's last radical Islamic attack at London Bridge in December 2019 was also carried out by a convicted terrorist, who had been released halfway through his sentence on a tag. PM Boris Johnson has said his government will reveal a blueprint for 'fundamental changes to the system for dealing with those convicted of terrorism offences' on Monday..."

Has the UK Terrorism Watch List Just Lost A Member?  (02 February 2020)

Following the knife terrorism incident in Streatham in which a number of people have been wounded and where the terrorist was killed, there will be a lot of speculation as to the motivation for an attack that was described as terrorism quite early on by the Metropolitan Police. Whist at this stage I cannot discount the idea that this could be a deranged neo-Nazi, an outcome that the Guardian would love to see, some of the modus operandi and targeting used by the terrorist has a lot in common with other Islamic jihadist attacks..."

Man Shot Dead After 'Terrorist-Related- Stabbings in Streatham, London  (02 February 2020)

"A man has been shot following multiple stabbings in Streatham, South London, in an incident which has been declared 'terrorist-related' ... Security services have told Sky News that believe the attack was 'Islamist' in nature, and he is believed to have been under active surveillance by police when he struck..."

The Scorpion...

"A scorpion, which cannot swim, asks a frog to carry it across a river on its back. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung by the scorpion, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion, but midway across the river the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: 'I couldn't help it. It's in my nature'."

...And The Snake

"On her way to work one morning, Down the path along side the lake, A tender-hearted woman saw a poor half frozen snake,
His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew. 'Poor thing', she cried, 'I'll take you in and I'll take care of you'

"'Take me in tender woman, Take me in, for heaven's sake. Take me in, tender woman', sighed the snake...

"She wrapped him up all cozy in a comforter of silk, And laid him by her fireside with some honey and some milk.
She hurried home from work that night and soon as she arrived, She found that pretty snake she'd taken to had been revived.

"'Take me in tender woman, Take me in, for heaven's sake. Take me in, tender woman', sighed the snake...

"She clutched him to her bosom, 'You're so beautiful' she cried, 'But if I hadn't brought you in by now you might have died'
She stroked his pretty skin again and kissed and held him tight. Instead of saying thanks, the snake gave her a vicious bite.

"'Take me in tender woman, Take me in, for heaven's sake. Take me in, tender woman', sighed the snake...

"'I saved you' cried the woman, 'And you've bitten me, but why? You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die'
'Oh shut up, silly woman' said the reptile with a grin. 'You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in.'

"'Take me in tender woman, Take me in, for heaven's sake. Take me in, tender woman', sighed the snake...
"'Take me in tender woman, Take me in, for heaven's sake. Take me in, tender woman', sighed the snake..."

A Small Dose of Facts and History

"Before the angry and accurate responses to Friday's atrocity on and about London Bridge reach a crescendo and are officially designated as 'wrongthink' followed by inevitable screams of Islamophobia! from the protected collective entity ultimately responsible, perhaps a small dose of facts and history may help level the playing field.

"The noun 'Islamophobia' is a compound oxymoron concocted to obfuscate historic reality and it is the obverse of the same propaganda coin the face of which reads 'Religion of Peace'. Consider: how could such a long, fully documented record of fourteen centuries of relentless Islamic aggression during which Muslims launched Jihad after Jihad spreading death and atrocity far and wide across the globe now be ignored in order to promote a revisionist dialogue which is the antithesis of recorded fact?

"Europe alone was assaulted on every quarter from Iceland to Scotland and England to Scandinavia and the Low Countries; from Spain to France to the Balkans and Austria.  The devastation caused by this incessant slaughter and the after-effects of Islam's scorched earth policy was immense and rendered vast swathes of Europe uninhabitable. According to some sources it was during these periods that approximately 15 million Europeans, close to 20% of a population of roughly 78 million, were either killed outright, starved to death, died of disease spread through displacement or were taken and sold into predominantly sexual slavery in the Souks of Arabia and the Barbary Coast.

"The Italian scholar Franco Cardini wrote 'If we ask ourselves how and when the modern notion of Europe and the European identity was born, we realise the extent to which Islam was a factor (albeit a negative one) in its creation. Repeated Muslim aggression against Europe between the seventh to eighth centuries, then between the fourteenth and the eighteenth centuries was the "violent midwife" to Europe'.

"That we Europeans became less involved in internecine conflicts and more militantly oriented beyond our borders is not an indictable action but a natural product of the will to survive and a growing awareness that offence is the best form of defence. It was not a case of the West being the aggressor and Islam the victim as the cultural relativism narrative would have us believe; if anyone has a grievance to air it is the West, not the demented slaves of Allah in the occupied territories now established from Londonistan to Glasgow and blighting the whole face of Europe as if a human pox.

"Remember, nothing in Islam changes and in the final analysis we would be mad to accept the claim that we Westerners are in any way responsible for the current state of affairs other than that in our sublime stupidity and fear of being labelled 'Racist!' we have allowed our corrupted academic and political classes to physically impose this pre-medieval abomination upon us without much more than a fearful murmur of disapproval.

"Thus, now we are fighting another battle in a war that has rumbled on for 1400 years, a battle we are losing because those who should be defending us - including the Church and the State & its Executive Arms - are instead close-ranking with the enemy and conspiring to prevent us from fighting back with the ruthless efficiency that, thanks to Islam, became an abiding and sustaining characteristic of our culture" [comment at source].

The Stinging Nettle Patch

"The stinging nettle patch which a few years ago was behind the greenhouse has taken over half the flowerbeds and much of the lawn. It is thought that in a few more years the nettles, fed by a weekly application of nutritious 'Benefit Grow', will have engulfed the entire garden and have reached the front door of the house.

"The gardeners remain relaxed and are not concerned about the changes to the flora and landscape. They had a meeting today and decided to take no action other than to watch the nettles grow and to increase surveillance.

"The Head Gardener, Bo, was particularly insistent that stinging nettles are peaceful and a great plant and for equality and diversity reasons their cultivation in the garden should in no way be discriminated against in favour of flowers, vegetables or fruit, and that people who say anything unpleasant about them will be severely stung and hung out on the washing line to dry in the sun.

"Visitors will note that the bunny rabbits which used to nibble dandelion leaves and play on the lawn have fled to the adjacent field, and that the flock of 650 ostriches in the play areas have buried their heads in the sand, to avoid the sight of the advancing wall of nettles, as they do anyway at all times of the year.

"Please follow further updates from the garden as the season progresses" [comment at source].

"The contemporary master gardeners of the yard, many of whom earned degrees in cultivation from the (haha) elite institutions of the land, have completely failed to discern the deadly kind from the desired ones. Way past time to uproot and dispose of them with the weeds" [comment at source].

The Curse of Cain

"After Cain killed his brother, the Lord told him, ... 'Cursed shall you be from the earth', ... and so it has been. The earth under their feet may be cursed, it yields nothing but sand and thistles, ... They become worshippers of death dreaming of the green verdant fields of paradise which they can reach only if they kill enough men, women and children. Leaving devastation behind them, dead lands, lost cultures, widows and orphans, they claw their way up to heaven on a ladder of bones. Everything around them dies until the only green is on their flags. They are cursed from the earth and they curse the earth. Where they go, the world dies. ... Cain sows fields of corpses of the innocent for the Lord and he still does not understand why his sacrifice is not accepted and why the earth he dwells on is cursed. ...  From Iraq to Iran, from Kuwait to Saudi Arabia, from Nigeria to Somalia, from Pakistan to Indonesia, he holds up human heads and cries 'Allahu Akbar'. ... There is no room for Cain anywhere. Where he remains there will be death and suffering. He will kill because it is all he can do. He has nothing else to offer the world, his own kind, or the Creator.. ... He kills from one end of the world to the next and it is never his fault. Each time, each Abel did it. ... His code is cruelty and his holy book is written in blood on the flayed skins of his murdered victims. ... The cries of peoples long vanished from the earth warn us that we will either drive out Cain or his curse will fill our lands with blood and dust and all that we love and all that we have worked for will die at his cursed touch" [source].

The Burden Which Habakkuk the Prophet Saw

The righteous cry out for God's punishment of the injustice in their lands:
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

The LORD God answers:
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs.
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves:
And their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

The dismay of the righteous at God's answer:   
Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die.
O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity:
Wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

The LORD God's reassurance to the righteous:
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

[Habakkuk 1:1-2:4]

Please Pray for All Those Persecuted by Islam

There are many, many suffering brothers and sisters who desperately need us to pray for them...

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"Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them;
and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body"
(Hebrews 13:3)

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