One of the unfortunate consequences that accompany the apologetics for murderous jihad attacks is that attacks continue. They’re accorded an allowance because there are those who will defend them as not being connected to religious perspectives. As we see with regularity, apologists for mass murder will seek to disassociate the proscriptions of the ideology from the ideology.
“We declare our responsibility for what happened in Madrid ... It is a response to your collaboration with the criminals Bush and his allies ... There will be more if God wills it. You love life and we love death ... if you don't put an end to your injustices more and more blood will run.”
So said the voice speaking Moroccan-tinged Arabic, on a videotape retrieved from a waste basket near Madrid's main mosque and morgue (how very apt). This was in the wake of the horrific train bombings in Spain after a man with an Arab accent called in to TV channel TeleMadrid with instructions on where to look for the tape.
Ostensibly, this message was a ploy to influence Spain's presidential elections (a ploy that would prove to be partly successful). But there is a more sinister and profound message in this disembodied warning to the infidels from Islam's holy warriors: it is yet another explicit avowal (we still don't get it, do we?) of Islam's sanguine nature. It is the love of death in God's name, whether it is the ignominious murder of the infidel or the glorious death of the shahid (martyr). It is the spread of God's domain--dar al-Islam--through the violence of offensive jihad. And it is the perverse diminution of what we here in the West hold to be most dear: the sanctity of life.
We saw similar dynamics in Gaza when Hamas engaged in a bloody civil war with Fatah. Hamas eventually won that murderous slug-fest through attrition but the result was a huge pile dead bodies, many showing signs of torture. That little dalliance was also a decisive message of challenge and contempt aimed at Abu Mazen AKA Mahmoud “where’s my U.N. issued welfare check” Abbas, in response to his token concessions toward acknowledging Israel's right to exist. Israel's very existence is anathema to the devout ummah in light of the moslem claim that all of Israel is an Islamic waqf (an entitlement from God granted to Muslims in perpetuity).
Such matters are not open to revision or capitulation.
Apologists will reel in denial regarding any association of religious perspectives and a simultaneous occurrence of dead bodies. Even the intonation of allahu akbar and the curious, simultaneous occurrence of gunfire or explosions will elicit a hand wave of “not connected with religion”. But as we know, Islam's jihad is a matter of historical record. There simply isn't any other movement in the world today, religious or secular, whose adherents willfully and regularly murder unarmed civilians en masse. It comes from the ideology, and when I see these dreadful tragedies continue, I get frustrated that people still won't acknowledge where this poisonous hatred and glorification of death comes from.
For as long as there are groups and individuals who excuse the slaughter, the slaughter will continue.
