What He Said
Mar. 15th, 2007 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythA short and to the point blog post by a guy named Tom Gara about the threat of terrorism. Writer Thomas Mallon asked ""Are American writers, artists, and thinkers truly prepared to admit that Islamofascism is a real, and even imminent, threat to everything they are accustomed to thinking, saying, and creating?""
And Tom Gara gave him the answer he deserved. "This gives way to much credit to militant Islamists, and way to little credit to the human spirit and western civilisation.
So how big is the threat? For me, it just isn't that big. Islamic terrorists, if they are lucky, will manage a couple of medium profile bombings of tourist sites each year, and maybe something larger (New York, London, Madrid) every few years. This sucks, and our security services should relentlessly hunt down these people and take them out of the game. But is it really that much of a threat to the world?
Our societies, cultures and economies are just too strong to be even mildly shaken by this lame bullshit. Just because some gaggle of religious lunatics manages to kill a bunch of westerners once every 6 months, does anyone really believe that "everything we are accustomed to thinking, saying and creating" is under threat? I call bullshit."
That's exactly what I've been trying to say for years now. Well, that and that "Islamofascism" is a really really really stupid term.
And Tom Gara gave him the answer he deserved. "This gives way to much credit to militant Islamists, and way to little credit to the human spirit and western civilisation.
So how big is the threat? For me, it just isn't that big. Islamic terrorists, if they are lucky, will manage a couple of medium profile bombings of tourist sites each year, and maybe something larger (New York, London, Madrid) every few years. This sucks, and our security services should relentlessly hunt down these people and take them out of the game. But is it really that much of a threat to the world?
Our societies, cultures and economies are just too strong to be even mildly shaken by this lame bullshit. Just because some gaggle of religious lunatics manages to kill a bunch of westerners once every 6 months, does anyone really believe that "everything we are accustomed to thinking, saying and creating" is under threat? I call bullshit."
That's exactly what I've been trying to say for years now. Well, that and that "Islamofascism" is a really really really stupid term.
