Gary Monro’s blog

The BBC seems to have an endless supply of security experts. I watch them, one after another, day after day and I never see the same one twice.

Tonight’s was questioning the idea the bombers were intending to die in the blasts. They brought credit cards and driving licenses with them - not usual for people who are expecting to die soon. There was explosive remaining in their car - suggesting, perhaps, they had somewhere else to attack afterwards?

None, so far as is known, have left any kind of message for family or friends - as is usual with suicide bombers.

So the suggestion is that they believed the bombs were on timers but were told they would explode later than they actually did.

This might explain why one was killed on a bus instead of being underground. Maybe, believing he had time, he was on his way somewhere….

And one bomber is unaccounted for. Did he just dump his bomb and run? If he did I bet he’s absolutely seething with whoever set them up. Maybe he’ll spill the beans if he’s caught….

Political correctness has infested - and is destroying - our country. Labour’s disgusting obsession with not upsetting the Muslim block vote is partly responsible for the inaction against the murderous intent fermenting amongst a minority of Muslims here. Gutless politicians have not only refused to confront the poison in our midst they have more or less tried to deny that it was even there.

It seems though that some Muslims have decided to do what our failed politicians have been too scared to do.

From the BBC:

Shahid Malik, whose Dewsbury constituency was the scene of police raids in the bombing investigation, said the Muslim community faced a “massive wake-up call”.

He told BBC News after his meeting with Mr Blair: “The challenge is straightforward - that those voices that we have we tolerated will no longer be tolerated, whether they be on the streets, in the schools, in the youth clubs, in a mosque, in a corner, in a house.

“We need to go beyond condemning - we need to confront.”

From Ireland On-line:

The Muslim Council of Britain is considering a plan for a national demonstration of protest against the terrorists behind the London bombings.

The inter-faith event, which has yet to be agreed, would involve marches in the capital and other cities across the UK.

A vigil organised by the Islamic Society of Britain with other church groups will take place in Manchester on Sunday, with a similar event scheduled for London at a future date, said Iqbal Sacranie, secretary general of the MCB.

From the Khaleej Times:

The response outside Britain has also been much stronger than ever before. The grand imam of Al-Azhar, Shaikh Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, condemned the bombers but went further, rejecting the argument that this attack could be justified as an attempt to force Britain out of Iraq. “This is illogical and cannot be the motive for killing innocent civilians,” he said. More striking have been the condemnations from radical groups like Hamas, Hizbullah and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, all of which have denounced the bombings.

There should be much, much greater condemnation from mainstream Islam. Moderates must adopt a zero-tolerance policy on terrorism, regardless of what they think of Iraq, Palestine or any other policy issue.

I’ll update this list as I find new examples. It’s early days yet. Maybe the real backlash resulting from this atrocity in London will be a backlash against terror by British Muslims.

I rarely read these things but work is quiet at the moment and I’m about to go home and I was curious… That’s my excuse. Anyway, The Times’ ‘Women‘ section has a problems page and I saw this:

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Today’s news roundup has an international flavour. Just for a change….

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Just had a look at the blog Anomaly UK and found a couple of intersting points:

First, that one of the bombs went off at Edgeware Road station - home of the UK’s Arab population. With Arabs being mostly Muslim the truly indiscriminate nature of these terrorists becomes even more obvious.

Second, that we have plenty of experience dealing with terrorist bombs. In 1973, the IRA detomated 36 bombs in London.

1973 is too far away to remember for most of us (I was 7 years old at the time) but we should recall such facts ourselves simply because it reminds us of what we’re capable of enduring.

No surrender…

Now the government is thinking about deporting preachers who encourage hate. Did it really take 50 plus dead for these people to finally do what every one of the rest of us has wanted them to do ever since they started spilling their poison?

Yes, it did take 50 plus to die. Even while we debate the pros and cons of the religious hatred laws this inept and dishonourable government just couldn’t bring itself to upset the feelings of Muslims who were already comfortably in their stride of praising suicide bombers, racially abusing Israelis and calling for all sorts of calamities to befall the UK/US/Western powers/infidels in general.

Our ‘leaders’ have continually put the sensibilities of hate-crazed mullahs before the lives of British citizens. Blair sucks up to British Muslims as if they actually want foreign Muslims coming to the UK and espousing hate and violence. If I were a British Muslim I’d feel degraded to know Blair thinks that I’ll be upset with him if he condemns racist hatred and religious violence.

FromThe Times:

Charles Clarke today said that he was prepared to implement any practical measures - including deportation of radical preachers - to protect Britain against a repeat of the July 7 bombings.

The British Home Secretary said it must be assumed there are others prepared to carry out similar suicide attacks.

“I think we have to organise ourselves on a basis that there are other people prepared to act in this way and we have to protect ourselves in the best way we can against that,” Mr Clarke said.

“We have to assume there are others ready to do the kind of things these people did last Thursday.”

Labour would never contemplate acting against Muslims in this way if there hadn’t been this outrage. People have to die before Labour will act against a perverse minority of such a large, generally pro-Labour voting block. But that they’d now even contemplate acting in such a way shows that they’re panicing. Now that people have been massacred Labour will put aside their reluctance to upset apologists for terrorism so they can look like they’re doing something.

We’ve always known this vile minority - British and foreign - were stirring things up in this country. Only Labour - desperate for the Muslim vote and believing - wrongly, in my view - that decent Muslims would be upset at the deportation of foreign hate-mongers - seems to have ‘thought’ otherwise.

Still, Clarke couldn’t resist multi-cultural grandstanding. He

“…said that the core values of Britain’s “democratic, multicultural” society were at stake.”

Ah, the multicultural society… Look, Clarke, we - that is, blacks, browns and whites - want to be safe first. It’s the obsession with minority sensitivities - and the insulting assumption that these minorities are incapable of recognising the practicalities of life and instead prefer victimhood whenever they’re mentioned - that means we don’t tackle this kind of problem in our midst in the first place.

Similar nonsense form Clarke on the BBC site:

But he argued the anti-terror strategy had to address the fact that ideology, not poverty, was the driving force behind such attacks.

“It’s ensuring that the whole of the Muslim community, supported by the whole of the society, stands out against this sort of belief.”

How does the rest of society ’support’ the Muslim one in standing against this sort of belief? I’m already against it and have always been. What more can I do? A hateful ideology has always existed on the Islamic fringes in the UK. Is he saying Muslims have usually been for it but now need to mend their ways?

Back at The Times report we learn that Clarke wants to be able to use email and telecoms data against terrorists in order to track their communications and plans. But first he’s going to have to get permission to do this from the institution that runs the United Kingdom - the British Parliament European Union - because, currently, such measures would be in breach of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights - the right of terrorists to do just whatever it is they please without fear of detection.

How many of us have to die before Labour decides to withdraw us from the Human Rights Act?

I have now lost count of the amount of politicians and policemen I have seen on television lecturing me on my behaviour with regards to Muslims. London is blown up, over 50 people are massacred and the white community is ordered not to have a go at Pakistanis.

I have news for you, Clarke, Blair and the gaggle of career cops desperate to please their political masters: It’s only your ASBO louts who are going to have a go at Pakistanis and if you’d put these louts in prison - where they belong - in the first place there wouldn’t be a problem anyway.

I have Muslim neighbours and I don’t have to be told not to harm them because I absolutely wouldn’t - in fact, I would harbour them if they were under any kind of threat from violent thugs. I think millions of whites would do the same. And the ones who would do something nasty to a Muslim aren’t going to be swayed by the pleadings of our failing leaders. They need to be fearful of the law, fearful of capture, fearful of imprisonment to stop their urges to be violent. And thanks to soft government and politically correct policing they are very far from fearful of anything.

The repeated instructions to us - whites - that we don’t beat up our Muslim friends and colleagues is an insult. Would these social engineers say such things to Jamaicans? Or Indians? Or, for that matter, Muslims? Would they tell them to behave themselves?

Answers on a postcard please…