Could a Mumbai-Style Attack Happen in the U.S.?
-David Ignatius
What would happen if roving gunmen infiltrated U.S. cities and started shooting? The Mumbai attacks are a powerful demonstration of the danger for cities around the world.
The reason to discuss such threats isn't to feed anti-terrorism hysteria. The challenge is to understand the adversary so that if an attack comes, the authorities will respond with cool heads and steady aim.
(Washington Post)
-David Ignatius
What would happen if roving gunmen infiltrated U.S. cities and started shooting? The Mumbai attacks are a powerful demonstration of the danger for cities around the world.
The reason to discuss such threats isn't to feed anti-terrorism hysteria. The challenge is to understand the adversary so that if an attack comes, the authorities will respond with cool heads and steady aim.
(Washington Post)
Psychotic Terrorists in Search of a Grievance -David Aaronovitch 
The one surviving attacker said his group came largely from rural southern Punjab in Pakistan. It is therefore unlikely that any of them had even encountered a Jew, or knew anyone else who had.
The only possible reason for going to such lengths to seek out a few Jews is ideology - because someone has told you, and you have accepted, that these people are your particular enemies. One sees here a psychosis in search of a grievance, not an expression of an existing grievance.
(Times-UK)
The Rabbi and the Terrorists -Dennis Prager
Why would a terrorist group of Islamists from Pakistan whose primary goal is to have Pakistan gain control of the third of Kashmir that belongs to India, devote so much of its efforts to killing a rabbi and any Jews with him? For the Islamists, as for the Nazis, the destruction of the Jews is central to their worldview.
With all the Pakistani Islamists' hatred of Hindus, the terrorists did not attack one Hindu temple. With all their hatred of Christian infidels, they did not seek out one of the 700,000 Christians in Mumbai. Great evils often begin with the murder of Jews, and therefore non-Jews who dismiss Jew-hatred will learn too late that Jew- and Israel-haters only begin with Jews but never end with them.
(Town Hall)
The one surviving attacker said his group came largely from rural southern Punjab in Pakistan. It is therefore unlikely that any of them had even encountered a Jew, or knew anyone else who had.
The only possible reason for going to such lengths to seek out a few Jews is ideology - because someone has told you, and you have accepted, that these people are your particular enemies. One sees here a psychosis in search of a grievance, not an expression of an existing grievance.
(Times-UK)
The Rabbi and the Terrorists -Dennis Prager
Why would a terrorist group of Islamists from Pakistan whose primary goal is to have Pakistan gain control of the third of Kashmir that belongs to India, devote so much of its efforts to killing a rabbi and any Jews with him? For the Islamists, as for the Nazis, the destruction of the Jews is central to their worldview.
With all the Pakistani Islamists' hatred of Hindus, the terrorists did not attack one Hindu temple. With all their hatred of Christian infidels, they did not seek out one of the 700,000 Christians in Mumbai. Great evils often begin with the murder of Jews, and therefore non-Jews who dismiss Jew-hatred will learn too late that Jew- and Israel-haters only begin with Jews but never end with them.
(Town Hall)
1 comment:
It is certainly important to understand the minds and tactics of any form of terrorists. It is hard to understand how these people think killing Jews will further their aims, and why they do not see that throughout history, killing Jews never led to the success in other areas that the perpetrators have longed for.
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