Jihadi John, Muslims and Refugees

Stories coming out of the Pentagon state that they believe they have successfully targeted and killed, with a drone-delivered explosive, Mohammed Emwazi.  This is the Daesh killer known as Jihadi John.

Some, not including myself, will no doubt question the legality of such an extra-judicial killing but I would expect that the overwhelming majority of decent people, would see this as a very welcome piece of news.  This person took vile and murderous behaviour to new depths.  His execution was the only acceptable outcome.

Any 'liberals' who have a problem with his death, go online a take a look at what he did to other innocents - Steven Sotloff, James Foley , David Haines, Alan Henning, Abdul-Rahman Kassig and Kenji Goto.

This Mohammed Emwazi was a refugee who, with his family,  left Kuwait and was accepted into Britain.  He then became another example of the 'enemy within' and it is worth remembering other 'refugees and migrants' who have abused the countries that took them in.

• The Boston bombers, who killed three innocents, were refugees/immigrants to the USA.

• The killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby, on the streets of London, were migrants from Nigeria.

• 3 of the 4 bombers who killed 52 people in London, in July 2005, were the children of immigrants from Pakistan.  The other killer was from Jamaica.

• The bombers of the Madrid trains, who killed 191 people, were from Morocco, Syria and Algeria.

• The killers at Charlie Hebdo magazine and the Jewish supermarket, in Paris,  had origins in Algeria and Mali.

So all of these 'enemies within' had a refugee/immigrant background.  The other thing that they had in common, was that all were Muslim.  Some say that these were 'radical Muslims' and shouldn't be confused with normal 'moderate' Muslims.  Some others say that the difference between a 'radical' Muslim, like Jihadi John and a 'moderate' Muslim is that Jihadi John would cut off a persons head but the 'moderate' Muslim would be holding the person down.  Make up your own mind but when you do so, ask yourself how many times in recent years have you heard the politicians talk of 'moderate' Muslims - a clue - it is usually straight after another atrocity committed by Muslims.  Consider also, when was the last time you heard of a bunch of Catholics or Seventh Day Adventists or Jews or Hindus cutting off the heads of people from a different faith?  

Maybe all of those clamouring for our doors to be flung open, should stop and consider this.  I have already posted here on September 11, 2015, my proposal that the only refugees that should be taken are those that have a lifetime sponsor, in the host country.  If you are a famous actor, say Benedict Cumberbatch, for example, then you can take in a refugee or a family of them, if, and only if, you guarantee to be financially responsible for them for the remainder of their lives.  Maybe that needs to be extended to include responsibility for the behaviour of them and their children?  Might be a bit radical but maybe throwing a Leftie 'luvvie' or two in jail, might be a good way to sort out the poseurs from the committed?



  

Are Americans rude or

is it just their President?

I ask, following the absence of President Obama from Baroness Thatcher's funeral.  Hillary Clinton also couldn't be bothered to attend nor her successor, John Kerry.  Instead the USA was represented by an embassy flunkey and the most recent former ambassador.

This was shabby behavior.  Unbecoming a country that positions itself as a super-power.  What a way to treat a country, which it is often said, is its greatest ally.   This was Obama at his typical worst. Prior to his election, in 2008, Europeans fawned over him (remember the Berlin rally?) and worshipped at his feet.  Once elected, and having accomplished nothing, he was then awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (more fawning) and yet, for Obama and his administration, Europe is a 'no go' area.

There will be some that try to excuse his absence by referring to the Boston Marathon bombing.  Yes that was a horrific incident and certainly merited Presidential attention but a President needs to think and act a bit more strategic than that.  I suspect that the real reason for his absence was that he wanted to continue to push the gun control agenda and 'twist arms' to do so and, because this very political President only wants to advance his vision of the USA, friends and allies, come a long way behind that goal.

Speaking of Boston, for a moment, I hope that this visitation of terror, in the heart of the city, causes some of its residents to pause and ponder.  Some of the people of Boston were a major source of funding for the IRA back in the 1970s and 1980s, with all of the collection jars in bars throughout the city.  These funds were then used to buy guns, ammunition and Semtex to wreak terror within the UK.  One such bomb, killed 12 year old Tim Parry and 3 year old Jonathan Ball, in Warrington, on March 20, 1993.

Back to President Obama.
We know that the US is 'pivoting' towards Asia Pacific but surely even common courtesy, to say nothing of basic diplomatic skills, would require an elevated level of attendance?  The US needs to pivot towards Asia because, frankly, it needs its money to finance the US debt mountain.  You will note that Europe and the Middle East, including Iran, get little attention from Obama.  Though, in a nod to its southern neighbors, it did send a high-level delegation to the funeral of Hugo Chavez.

Or would it maybe be that Obama was concerned that he wouldn't be the centre of attention?  And that he would have been compared, and very unfavourably, at that, to his predecessor, Ronald Reagan and the good lady, herself?  All I see and hear of Obama, suggests that is a plausible reason.

I sincerely hope that European leaders and Britain's in particular, take note of this highly political snub and file it away and take appropriate reciprocal action, when the occasion arises.

Obama and his administration, shamed America, this week and Europeans, who have a lot more history than the US, also have long memories!