Hello there I’ve been lazy lately and haven’t posted about anything, but I’ve been reading and keeping up just a little bit with the London attack.
I’m not particularly good with making my point so I tend to quote other people, but I’ll take a moment to say I can only hope the people of the world see that everyone is under attack by evil men who will perpetuate their destructive ways until stopped through force and the introduction of freedom of thought to more of the world.
From Varifrank I got a link to “WE CANNOT SURRENDER” by Christopher Hitchens which has a really inspirational piece and a letter from a Malaysian couple living in London; it’s a good read.
From Hitchens:
The grievance of seeing unveiled women.
The grievance of the existence, not of the State of Israel, but of the Jewish people.
The grievance of the heresy of democracy, which impedes the imposition of sharia law.
The grievance of a work of fiction written by an Indian living in London.
The grievance of the existence of black African Muslim farmers, who won’t abandon lands in Darfur.
The grievance of the existence of homosexuals.
The grievance of music, and of most representational art.
The grievance of the existence of Hinduism.
The grievance of East Timor’s liberation from Indonesian rule.
All of these have been proclaimed as a licence to kill infidels or apostates,
or anyone who just gets in the way.
[...]They demand the impossible - the cessation of all life in favour of prostration before a totalitarian vision. Plainly, we cannot surrender. There is no one with whom to negotiate, let alone capitulate.
We shall track down those responsible. States that shelter them will know no peace. Communities that shelter them do not take forever to discover their mistake. And their sordid love of death is as nothing compared to our love of London, which we will defend as always, and which will survive this with ease.
That’s how it is. My sympathies to London and to those she lost.