White Widow, Samantha Lewthwaite

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Every last member of Al-Shabaab in Kenya and Somalia should be massacred. That is the civilised way to do it.

Did you see that Kenyan/Somalian bloke on Question Time? 'The people are EVIL and they represent NO faith on this earth!' He was awesome.

I'm sorry, but we have to talk about the barbarism of modern Islamist terrorism

In Western news-making and opinion-forming circles, there’s a palpable reluctance to talk about the most noteworthy thing about modern Islamist violence: its barbarism, its graphic lack of moral restraint. This goes beyond the BBC's yellow reluctance to deploy the T-word – terrorism – in relation to the bloody assault on the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya at the weekend. Across the commentating board, people are sheepish about pointing out the historically unique lunacy of Islamist violence and its utter detachment from any recognisable moral universe or human values. We have to talk about this barbarism; we have to appreciate how new and unusual it is, how different it is even from the terrorism of the 1970s or of the early twentieth century. We owe it to the victims of these assaults, and to the principle of honest and frank political debate, to face up to the unhinged, morally unanchored nature of Islamist violence in the 21st century.

Maybe it’s because we have become so inured to Islamist terrorism in the 12 years since 9/11 that even something like the blowing-up of 85 Christians outside a church in Pakistan no longer shocks us or even makes it on to many newspaper front pages. But consider what happened: two men strapped with explosives walked into a group of men, women and children who were queuing for food and blew up themselves and the innocents gathered around them. Who does that? How far must a person have drifted from any basic system of moral values to behave in such an unrestrained and wicked fashion? Yet the Guardian tells us it is “moral masturbation” to express outrage over this attack, and it would be better to give into a “sober recognition that there are many bad things we can’t as a matter of fact do much about”. This is a demand that we further acclimatise to the peculiar and perverse bloody Islamist attacks around the world, shrug our shoulders, put away our moral compasses, and say: “Ah well, this kind of thing happens.”

Or consider the attack on Westgate in Kenya, where both the old and the young, black and white, male and female were targeted. With no clear stated aims from the people who carried the attack out, and no logic to their strange and brutal behaviour, Westgate had more in common with those mass mall and school shootings that are occasionally carried out by disturbed people in the West than it did with the political violence of yesteryear. And yet still observers avoid using the T-word or the M-word (murder) to describe what happened there, and instead attach all sorts of made-up, see-through political theories to this rampage, giving what was effectively a terror tantrum executed by morally unrestrained Islamists the respectability of being a political protest of some breed.

I don't care about all the cultural analysis going on about her being a female convert to Islam, the fact that she was involved with Al-Shabaab says enough about what kind of person she was. Being a white, female Muslim is neither here no there compared to her being a terrorist scumbag.

In all fairness, while political correctness has gone overboard on more than one occasion, the intention behind it was sound. Just because you have a prejudice against a certain group simply because of race or religion doesn't mean you should blurt it out. And those who do, and especially those who put action behind their ugly rhetoric, put themselves open to counter attack. Does the KKK or Nation of Islam have the right to say ugly things about other races? Yes, they do. But the rest of us have the right to shout them down to defend our fellow citizens.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Bill, when was the last time Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson lost sleep worrying over whether their policies were good for white people?

PC is actually the sacralization of liberalism--or liberalism turned into a secular religion. According to PC, whites can't say anything about other groups due to collective guilt. But other groups can say just about anything they want to about whites.

PC actually stretches back in the Anglo-American liberal tradition to J.S. Mill, who wrote glowingly about a so-called religion of humanity to replace evil, wicked Christianity. The Frankfurt School, along with a compliant education system and media made sure that PC messages were all the public received--at least until the advent of the Internet.

Actually, this unanimity of opinion was something Mill anticipated (in volumes six and seven of his "Logic"), despite his famous dictum of, we should be allowed to do anything we want, including harm to ourselves, provided that we don't directly harm an innocent or their property in the process. Liberalism is never what it wants to think of itself as.

Cyberdad, I understand about anglicization of names. Again, my understanding is that around half of the population of the US is still genetically descended from the founding stock. If you have hard information to the contrary, I would like to see it.

As far as Kid Rock being related to Lionel Ritchie, listening to the following should answer that question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glb2U6y-GdU

Having an ancestor of British stock doesn;t mean all your ancestors are British, I recall Mitt Romney was at great pains to overemphasise his English ancestor with a surname "Romney". In reality half his family are of German stock (descended from the Wilken clan). Infact he's as British as Obama who can also claim half his ancestors were British.

Kid rock is born in Michigan which has a large number of Germans. It's really not that hard for a German family with the surname Richter to simply shuffle the letters to make it spell Ritchie.

PC is actually the sacralization of liberalism--or liberalism turned into a secular religion. According to PC, whites can't say anything about other groups due to collective guilt. But other groups can say just about anything they want to about whites

Many German Americans during the first World War had changed their names because of the rampant Anti-German hysteria directed against them.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I'm pretty sure most right wing types would prefer to euthanase or sterilise people like us librarian.

I'm pretty sure you don't know what you're talking about, as that's an extremely ignorant thing to say.

I'm pretty sure you don't know what you're talking about, as that's an extremely ignorant thing to say.

I'm pretty sure you don't know what you're talking about, as that's an extremely ignorant thing to say.

Famously right-wing Sweden practiced eugenics on people for decades.

A lot of right-wing people here would react with horror to the suggestion that we be euthanised. It's more of a problem with control freaks than right-wingers.

Actually, eugenics was created/invented in America.......California, specifically.

It was only adopted by the Nazis, who were more than happy to encourage the belief that they had Invented/developed it.

As late as the 1940's, a 'White' could not legally marry a Philippino/Philippina; they could actually be jailed!

Sylkat