What we've got here is FAILURE to communicate:What thugmasters want...apart from total world domination and your tuckus in the air at prayer

After the London bombings,
Amir Taheri says he was inundated with phone calls from the MSM w/requests for interviews w/one question: "what do they want." He said the whole thing reminded him of Theo van Gogh, the Dutch film-maker executed by a thug assassin, "Van Gogh begged for mercy and tried to reason with his assailant. “Surely we can discuss this, he kept saying as the shots kept coming. “Let us talk it over." What we've got here is failure to communicate. Yead, right. The MSM presumption here is that the thug that killed Van Gogh or the thug team that blew up the London buses "may have some reasonable demands which could be discussed a calm, democratic atmosphere." Yes, Virginia, there are still a lot of out-to-lunch MSM dinosaurs that didn't get the word. Yes, Virginia, these MSM types would rather believe that if Dubya had not pissed off the thuggies why none of this messy business would be necessary. Inquiring minds want to know. Ok, so once again we are going to repeat the word as interpreted by Amir Taheri, who says: forgetaboutit!

"... sorry, old chaps, you are dealing with an enemy that does not want anything specific, and cannot be talked back into reason through anger management or round-table discussions. Or, rather, this enemy does want something specific: to take full control of your lives, dictate every single move you make round the clock and, if you dare resist, he will feel it his divine duty to kill you.

Why is that I hear you say...well it goes back in back in time right after the dinosaurs turned into oil and God gave us free will and us being a stiff-necked people were inconsiderate, of course, and God, being the ever lasting fountain of patience, sent dozens of prophets, including Moses and Jesus and all failed. So now God is sorely pissed off and decides its time to kick ass, take names and send in:

"Muhammad as the last of His prophets and the bearer of His ultimate message, Islam. With the advent of Islam all previous religions were “abrogated” (mansukh), and their followers regarded as “infidel” (kuffar). The aim of all good Muslims, therefore, is to convert humanity to Islam, which regulates Man’s spiritual, economic, political and social moves to the last detail."

So what if you don't want to come along and convert quietly like a good Kuffar that you have the potential to be. Thugmasters have a plan for the unwilling:

"..... Osama bin Laden, a disciple of al-Maudoodi, believe(s) that the Western-dominated world is too mired in corruption to hear any argument, and must be shocked into conversion through spectacular ghazavat (raids) of the kind we saw in New York and Washington in 2001, in Madrid last year, and now in London."....Bin Laden has consistently argued in favour of further ghazavat inside the West. He firmly believes that the West is too cowardly to fight back and, if terrorised in a big way, will do “what it must do”. (convert) That view was strengthened last year when al-Qaeda changed the Spanish Government with its deadly attack in Madrid. At the time bin Laden used his “Madrid victory” to call on other European countries to distance themselves from the United States or face similar “punishment”.

Ok, here are the strategic goals of the thugmasters dreams as outlined in this pretty good article:

• “Drive the Cross-worshippers” (Christian powers) out of the Muslim world

• wipe Israel off the map

• replace the governments of all Muslim countries with truly Islamic regimes like the one created by Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran and by the Taleban in Afghanistan.

There you have it. These attacks are part and parcel of a plan to convert you to Islam and if you weren't so corrupt and lazy you would understand the thuggies are only looking out for your own good. Don't say you didn't get the word. Allrighty then! Any questions!!

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