(Telegraph-UK) Barbara Amiel - You can always find some, even many, with the view that we should not provoke the Islamic world and anything we do to protect ourselves from it will be provocative. Appeasement is nothing new and its futility seems lost in one of those great fogs that befuddle human minds. It is possible that Spain would not have had the explosions at this time if it had stayed on the sidelines in the war against Saddam. Or not, for Islamists have a special issue with Spain. Bin Laden spoke in October 2001 of the "tragedy in Andalusia," a reference to the final ending of the great Muslim advance in the Iberian peninsula by the Moors. By their own mad statements, the Islamists will not be content until all the lands they believe belong to the Muslim world are free of the infidel and the "humiliation of 80 years ago" is reversed, meaning the reversal of the end of the Ottoman Empire. Given their rather bloody interpretation of the command of the Koran to spread the word to all infidels, unless we pull ourselves together we shall find ourselves spread all over streets and railway lines.
2004-03-15 00:00:00Full ArticleBACK Visit the Daily Alert Archive