Category: Terrorism

Online terrorism and stupidity

This morning they were talking on Today about the woman who called herself the “Lyrical Terrorist”, who wrote ghoulish poems about slicing people’s heads off and was convicted of possessing material “likely to be...

The futility of terrorism

Some guy has just been convicted of sending letter bombs (also here) to various companies which were involved in security and surveillance, and to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), citing an "overbearing...

No excuses for revenge terrorism

Today’s Daily Mail carried a letter from Qasim Omar, a former Test cricketer, which mentioned that he had been attacked recently, with stones thrown at him by youths in the street, apparently in response...

Hospitality? What Hospitality?

This was the front page of today's Daily Express, or Daily Spew as I call it here, about an idiotic demonstration by a few women in "burkhas" against the sentencing of a group of...

Why we don’t march against terrorism

The familiar call has gone out, in response to the recent London and Glasgow bomb attempts, for Muslims to somehow organise “not in my/our name” marches in order to condemn terrorism: for example, this...

“Dancing slags” and pied pipers

Catherine Bennett on terrorism (from yesterday's Guardian) Last Monday, five young British Muslim men were sentenced to life in prison for a plot to set off large fertiliser bombs in southern England. The targets...

Al-Qa’ida and Muslim hearts and minds

Matthew Parris, writing in the most recent edition of the Spectator (part 1, part 2) in reply to David Selbourne, who claimed that American power is past its prime, that Islam is what has...

“Rocket man” DID have explosives for war

BBC NEWS: Ex-BNP man 'wanted to shoot PM' (hat tip: Lenin) Remember the case of the biggest-ever haul of explosive chemicals the police found at a house in Lancashire last October, which hardly made...

More on silly 9/11 conspiracy theories

As an example of the sort of silly conspiracy-mongering George Monbiot was talking about in his article in the Guardian on Tuesday (which I linked), here is a reply to it (third letter down),...

Monbiot trashes “Loose Change”

The Guardian: A 9/11 conspiracy virus is sweeping the world, but it has no basis in fact George Monbiot takes apart the 9/11 conspiracy film Loose Change, which advances the well-known "no plane" theory:...