No one can run from the fight

Reposted from donaldsensing.com. Links were good at time of original.

I posted two days ago about Muslims in Europe Euro-Muslims calling for jihad there. One of the Muslim clerics concerned, Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad of London, calls his group, "al Qaeda Europe." Saying attacks there are inevitable, he explained their targeting rationale:

"We don't make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an unbeliever has no value. It has no sanctity."

I would hope that from this rhetoric that the appeasers of the Western Left would learn a very fundamental lesson: they and the most hardcore American neocon are alike lumpen infidel to the Islamofascists. Liberal, conservative, progressive, reactionary, Democrat, Republican, Christian, Jew, agnostic, Mets fan or Yankees, businessman, farmer, whatever: Islamofascists have one label for us all: "infidel enemy."

After taking heat from some reader for publishing explicit photos of the burnt corpses of the four American contract employees murdered then hung from a Fallujah bridge on March 31, Phil Lucas, executive editor of the Panama City New Herald, published his reply:

Look at your spouse and children. Look at your self in the mirror. Then look at the pictures from the paper last Thursday. You better look at them. Those are the people out to kill you.

Who do you think will win? You? Or them? Think you can take your ball and go home and they will leave you alone? Read a little history. Start with last week, last month, last year, and every other year back for half a century. Then go back a thousand years. Nobody hides from this fight.

Like it or not, that's the way it was and that's the way it is.

But many Americans don't get it.

That's why we published those pictures.

If they jarred you off the sofa, if they offended you, if they scared your children and sent you into a rage at mass murderers or heartless editors, then I say, it's a start.

The fact that so many people remain in denial simply astounds me.

Update: People like this writer, whom Andrew Sullivan gave his "Susan Sontag" award.

Euro-Muslims call for jihad

Some immigrant Muslims in Britain and the continent are calling for its Islamization and a jihad to make it so.

They are mostly young men, urged on by a few firebrand clerics such as Abu Hamza or Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammad, both of whom call for holy war against Prime Minister Blair and British society generally.

"All Muslims of the West will be obliged," [Mohammed] said, to "become his sword" in a new battle. Europeans take heed, he added, saying, "It is foolish to fight people who want death - that is what they are looking for."

But the older Muslim generation is less than entranced.

"I think these kids are being brainwashed by a few radical clerics," said Akhbar Dad Khan, another elder of the Central Mosque. He wants them prosecuted or deported. "We should be able to control this negativity," he said.

Only a small percentage of the young men enthralled by the jihadist preaching will accept being recruited into the cells that law-enforcement agencies know are being formed, and fewer still will actually become active. But terrorism doesn't take many. British investigators arrested nine Pakistani-Britons in late March and confiscated more than a half-ton of bomb materials.