London will Fall unless we know our Enemy

Four dead and 20 twenty injured, including the death of a man who sought to protect us and put his life in harm’s way to protect the democracy in which we live and flourish in. Police Officer Keith Palmer, 48, was stabbed to death outside Parliament by the attacker who brought carnage to London today, mowing down pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, with more than just murder on his warped mind.

This killer, this terrorist, is an enemy known to authorities, a radical preacher espousing hatred and death to unbelievers. Yet he is merely the surface of a greater enemy that wants London to fall under its archaic spell. We dare not utter its name lest we offend society at large, or maybe just those who still think Donald Trump is a somehow analogous to Hitler and Pol Pot.

We dare not utter its name unless we are somehow seen as divisive, or scaremongers, or seen as disunited.

London’s terror level is at severe, the number of terror plots since 2010 number 13 in total (these are just the known ones) and today it came to the door of democracy itself.

It’s called radical Islamic terrorism and it’s about time we face its ugly visage otherwise we will always remain the prey to this particularly putrid predator.

You see London, and the UK at large, is an exporter of this enemy brand. So why are we surprised when the Jihadis come to roost and seek to destroy us? Over a thousand British Muslims are now fighting for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. And more are joining every day. They’re not going there to learn scripture, to come back home enlightened to share their experiences in mosques in the name of theocratic debate and candour, no they go there with murder on their depraved minds and are delighted in their returning to the yolk of civilisation and the door to democracy itself to butcher us all.

Radical Islam is to blame for the intimidation, violence, supremacism, and intolerance in the name of Islam that leads to the butchery we saw today. So why do we give cover to this depravity under the euphemistic language of ‘incidents’ and ‘mental health’ and ‘foreign policy’ justifications and my personal favourite, ‘lone wolf’ attacks?

And guess what? Radical Islam isn’t just about driving cars into innocents and stabbing those who put their lives in danger to protect our way of life, it’s a socio-political movement of oppression and death with its own governance, tax structure, and legislation and enforcement mechanisms.

It is completely and utterly naïve to state a belief that terrorism does not pose as large a threat to Britain as the fear it generates among the British public. How many more Britons must be slaughtered before we realize that ISIS and other radical Islamic terrorist organizations are at war with us? So let’s stop calling the terrorist who inflicted this pain upon our beautiful democracy as a ‘lone wolf’ or a man with ‘mental health’ issues or was pissed off because Palestine is being overrun by those nasty Zionists. Recognizing the true nature of our enemy is the first step to actually defeating them and saving precious lives in the process. This savage murderer was and is a radical Islamic terrorist and there are many more behind him, walking in our society in plain view, preaching in mosques, praying in mosques alongside peaceful Muslims, getting media oxygen on TV and radio and being granted visas to spout their vitriol and incitement while the likes of Geert Wilders, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are denied theirs.

After today, can we not call this what it is? Can we not identify the enemy accurately?

We are not at war with “violent extremism” or those angry at Israel, or annoyed about foreign policy, or giving arms to Saudi Arabia or whatever a convenient justification it is today for chopping off heads for being an unbeliever. We are at war with radical Islam. Our leaders will not admit what the enemy proudly proclaims. It is long past time to stop pretending that the threat to the West comes from a concept — “extremism” — and not one very specific sect of one very specific religion. It is unbecoming of the leaders of the West to be less honest than the enemy in describing the nature of the conflict at hand. Today we underestimated it, even though the perpetrator was on a watch list and known to our authorities.

We cannot make this mistake again.