Item: Is MI5 hacking Islamic web sites?
Times of London[*1] reports that Israeli intelligence thinks the British MI5 intelligence organization may be targeting Islamofascist web sites. Via Little Green Footballs[*2] .
Item: (Via Chrenkoff) German publisher Mathias Doepfner’s comments[*4] on European appeasement of Islamofascism:
What atrocity must occur before the European public and its political leadership understands what is really happening in the world? There is a sort of crusade under way; an especially perfidious campaign consisting of systematic attacks by Islamists, focused on civilians, that is directed against our free, open Western societies, and that is intent on their utter destruction.
We find ourselves faced with a conflict that will most likely last longer than any of the great military clashes of the last century, a conflict conducted by an enemy that cannot be tamed by tolerance and accommodation because that enemy is actually spurred on by such gestures. Such responses have proven to be signs of weakness.
Chrenkoff comments[*3] :
But Doepfner’s general argument is sound. It is never politically popular – though strategically smart – to deal with a threat when it is still small. But it’s difficult to see how making concessions will not make the threat increase, that is how withdrawing Western presence from everywhere in the Middle East and the Muslim world broadly speaking, and giving Al Qaeda a free hand to subvert and overthrow all the current governments, which it considers heretical and treasonous, is going to make us in the West safer. There is indeed, a civil war going on within the Islamic community, and if you think that we don’t have any stake in the outcome, just wait until the bad guys win. But by then it will be too late.
