It
began
on Tuesday in Woolwich, London, when two young men in a car
deliberately ran over an off-duty British soldier who was walking to
a nearby military installation, then “hacked and chopped” at his
body and attempted to decapitate him as they shouted “Allah akbar!”
They forced witnesses to film the scene, saying: “We swear by
Almightly Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reasons we
have done this is because Muslims are dying every day.” When police
arrived, the murderers “charged at them wielding firearms, knives
and a machete.” They were apprehended alive, and are now in
hospital. It has since emerged
that one of them, a son of Nigerian immigrants, was born in Britain
as Michael Olumide Adebolajo, converted to Islam in 2003, changed his
name to Mujaahid (i.e., jihadist), and for several years attended
meetings of the group Al-Muhajiroun, founded by terrorist preacher
Omar Bakri Mohammed. Late Thursday afternoon, U.K. time, the murdered
soldier was identified
as 25-year-old Lee Rigby, a drummer in the 2nd Battalion Royal
Regiment of Fusiliers and the father of a two-year-old son.
Just
like this week’s nightly riots by “youths” in Stockholm,
the brutal slaughter in Woolwich was plainly a jihadist act. Yet just
as the Swedish elites are continuing to dance around that
uncomfortable core truth, their British counterparts are engaged in
some fancy footwork of their own – led by Prime Minister David
Cameron, who described
Tuesday’s atrocity as “not just an attack on Britain and on the
British way of life” but “also a betrayal of Islam and of the
Muslim communities who give so much to our country.” (Does it need
to be said that for a British leader to haul out this ragged,
repulsive lie in the year 2013 is itself a betrayal – a shameless,
craven betrayal of precisely what Cameron pretends to be standing up
for, namely “Britain and…the British way of life”?)
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