The instant Jihad syndrome

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My favourite new term is ‘self-radicalised’ – it suggests the reasons for terrorism are totally divorced from the actions of the West.

This need to suddenly ramp up terror laws because of lone wolf, self-radicalised Jihadists seems convenient and counter-productive.

Flying planes into buildings is terrorism. Bombs strapped to individuals and detonated in public is terrorism. Mass civilian deaths caused by an individual or group is terrorism. An angry loner who kills a couple of people is a criminal act – it is not terrorism and it shouldn’t be allowed to be used by anyone as a justification to escalate conflict.

John Key and his favourite attack dog Cameron Slater has manipulated NZers into believing that ISIS is a threat to us and Key has done this via a complicit media who are yet to show they have any ability of holding our military or leaders to account for their actions. Key has promoted this fear by conjuring up the same self-radicalised bogeyman the rest of the 5 Eye partners are currently using to justify more ‘terror’ laws to their citizens.

We should not allow fear or the promotion of fear to cloud our judgment. If ISIS is a threat, it is because of the vacuum the West created when it invaded Iraq under WMD false pretences last time. The means to beat ISIS lie in cutting their funding off, and seeing as most of their funding comes from Saudi Arabia and Turkey, our position should be in placing pressure on those two regional powers before we send SAS in to start shooting the place up.

Key lied to the media about being involved in this war prior to the election and then immediately u-turned the second he won, this alone should dominate our headlines, unsurprisingly it has not.

Key is manipulating our fear to justify a war. Seeing as NZers just re-elected him despite dirty politics and mass surveillance lies, the chances of holding Key to account for anything past the decision to go to war seems slim to nil.

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8 COMMENTS

  1. An angry loner who kills a couple of people is a criminal act – it is not terrorism – See more at: https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2014/10/26/the-instant-jihad-syndrome/#respond
    Im just curious to know is it not terrorism because he acted alone or he didn’t kill enough people.
    If the same man used a bomb & the body count was higher would it then be terrorism.
    Also the two men who cut off the soldiers head in London. Was that terrorism or did they not cut enough heads off.

  2. “If ISIS is a threat, it is because of the vacuum the West created when it invaded Iraq under WMD false pretences last time.”

    While it’s true that the west has played a significant role in the development if radical Islamist groups, it’s not the only cause. Saudi Arabia is home to Salafist Islam, a cruel and violent offshoot of Islam which endorses secular power and is also represented within ISIS. While the business and terrorism connections between the bin Laden family of Saudia Arabia and the Carlyle group (involving GHW Bush) are quite relevant, the point remains that the west had nothing to do with the advent of Salafism.

    “The means to beat ISIS lie in cutting their funding off, and seeing as most of their funding comes from Saudi Arabia and Turkey, our position should be in placing pressure on those two regional powers before we send SAS in to start shooting the place up.”

    It’s a good argument, but it’s worth mentioning that Turkey holds a special place in US foreign policy, being one of four countries (UK, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Belgium) in which diplomatic communications are not monitored by the FBI (source: Sibel Edmonds). The US secretary of state was also implicated in the planned false flag attack against Syria which was discussed by Erdogan’s people.

    IOW, any effective remedy involves taking a closer look at the dark state relationships between Saudi Arabia and Turkey and the US. Edmond’s history with the FBI makes her an excellent source of information on this subject.

  3. Expect Key to make the decision to go into Iraq when the House rises and the MSM wind down for the Silly Season. No Q+A; no “The Nation”; and Radio NZ has a summer programme that is light on News and current affairs, and heavy on afternoon silliness.

    This is the time when politicians can eat babies and get away with it.

  4. Good one Martyn.

    However can I say, the violent acts of a lone Canadian jihadist, sympathetic to ISIS, was in my book a terrorist strike on his part, instigated by Canada’s deal to be part of the coalition, led by the US.

    The Canadian government’s decision brought the war to Canada’s doorstep and the same thing will happen here, once FJK publicly announces the part NZ will play alongside Uncle Sam in Iraq! And he has made up his mind to involve us, whether we like it or not, because he’s working to appease his US masters!

  5. I’m just curious to know is it not terrorism? because he acted alone or he didn’t kill enough people.

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  6. We should not allow fear or the promotion of fear to cloud our judgment.

    Not quite, as fear clarifies mine.

    I’m fearful, for good reason, that should John Key commit NZ to an active roll in the USA’s war on ISIS then the status quo will change and NZ and NZer’s will be at far higher risk of harm from terror attacks globally than if we kept well out of it.

    Key will be putting us in harm’s way to satisfy the USA. I hope he is loudly reminded of the warnings provided him when in future he attends the funerals of resulting terror victims.

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