UK Gets Tough On Terror

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There was another jihad massacre last week, this time in Barcelona, where a drove a van into a crowd at Barcelona’s popular Costa Dorada area, killing fourteen people and injuring 100. In the wake of this latest jihad atrocity, the government of Britain, realizing that a vehicular jihad attack could happen on its soil as easily as it did in Spain, moved swiftly to neutralize the threat: it banned vans.

Yes, I exaggerate. But not much. The Evening Standard reported Sunday that “British drivers will face extra checks when renting cars and vans to ensure they are not extremists in the wake of string of a deadly terror attacks using vehicles.”

Toby Poston, director of external relations at the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA), explained: “The industry is looking at ways to share data with the authorities in as real time as possible so it can be cross-referenced with counter-terrorism watch lists.”

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That’s a commonsensical idea, but it should have been implemented years ago; it isn’t as if the Barcelona jihadi invented vehicular jihad attacks, which the Islamic State called for back in 2014, and which happened before that as well. Nonetheless, the British government tried to give the impression that this was a cutting-edge move: “The threat from terrorism is changing and so must our response,” said a government spokeswoman.

“The Department for Transport is also working with the police and the vehicle rental industry to explore what more can be done to prevent the malicious use of hire vehicles. This includes looking at what more rental companies could do before an individual can hire a vehicle.”

“The threat from terrorism is changing and so must our response”? That’s funny. The British government, like the TSA in the U.S., is always one step behind the jihadis, never ahead of them. A jihadi put a bomb in his shoes, so we all have to take off our shoes in airport security. The jihadis tried to assemble a bomb from separate liquid parts in different bottles, so we can’t take liquids through security anymore. Air travel gets progressively more annoying and uncomfortable, and these measures are largely useless anyway: the jihadis have moved on to new techniques.

But above all, the problem with Britain responding to the Barcelona vehicular jihad massacre by making it hard to rent a van is the same as the problem with Britain recently outlawing the home delivery of knives bought online: the vans and the knives aren’t doing all this killing of their own volition. Muslims are wielding them in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings on jihad, but the British government doesn’t dare acknowledge that. Nor, of course, is the American government.

Authorities can take away our vans and our knives and our water bottles and our shoes, and the jihadis will keep killing people. They can shut down every counter-jihad site on the Internet and make sure that no one utters the supposed “hate” that makes Muslims feel “alienated” and drives them to become “radicalized,” and they’re certainly working hard at doing this these days, but the jihadis will keep killing people. They can shut down the freedom of speech altogether, and impose Sharia blasphemy laws prohibiting the criticism of Islam under the guise of restrictions on “hate speech,” and they’re working hard on doing that as well, but this, too, will not make jihadis stop killing people.

The jihadis will keep killing people because they hold to an ideology that tells them they will receive rewards in this world and the next for doing so. Unless and until Western law enforcement and intelligence officials acknowledge the existence of this ideology, and study hard to understand it, they will never be able to develop strategies for confronting and defeating it. But right now, those officials seem determined instead to go to any lengths to avoid confronting that ideology or offending its adherents.

So instead, we get ridiculous measures like new restrictions on renting vans. And next week, after the next jihad massacre, the surviving targets of jihad will find themselves dealing with yet more abridgements of their freedom and intrusion into their privacy, so that our elected officials can continue to preserve their comforting illusions. Reality will only dawn on the political elites when it is absolutely impossible to avoid by turning off the TV and retreating to their summer houses. By then it will likely be too late.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies). Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.

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Scott Wallace
Scott Wallace
6 years ago

Great article and funny if it wasn’t true.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
6 years ago

so all the vehicles in UK are cannot be hot-wired?

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

Cloony the Anti-Trump Pro-muslim immigration found a good way to Avoid getting killed by jihadis.

The coward was not feeling safe in Britainistan so flees to ………? Guess where ? To the “Racist” Trump’s America ! What should be done to such scumbags ?

One option is given at end of the article here http://bit.ly/2u4CPfj

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

Of course a muslum contemplating a terrorist attack would never consider stealing a truck from the unsuspecting sheep in the United Kaliphate would he? That would be illegal!

Poppey
Poppey
6 years ago

I find I cannot add much to this piece by the renowned Mr Spencer except to say any hood willing to commit murder by vehicle is going to go around this restriction by stealing his chosen device if he has to.

Fortunately the Imam linked to Barcelona has now been shown to have had links to Madrid and Brussels before they were both attacked, so now authorities have even fewer excuses not to see the clarity of the terrorist issue.

Imams – Mosque – Koranic mandate – westernised young muslims – terrorist outrages.

I wonder if this clear link will encourage some to take the correct actions?

gfmucci
gfmucci
6 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

No, it won’t.

Michelle
Michelle
6 years ago

hahaha!! They really think that this will have an effect? It is like banning swastikas in WW2..absolutely no effect where it was needed and it would not have worked there anyway. You have to wonder about the mentality of such civil servants who come up with this rubbish and yes, I know: they are socialism’s end product and like the famed “mental disease”(sic) of muslims, an index of their brainwashed stupidity and inability to actually possess thought not uttered by some leftard idiot no matter that its very utterance is destroying what they think that they hold dear.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

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Right, the useless caliphate gets tough on credibility .

scheradoD
scherado
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Are you having fun?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  scherado

Always, britainstan is a laugh a minute.

arnoldspriggs
arnoldspriggs
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Agreed. And I should know. Sharia May strikes again.

harbidoll
harbidoll
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

but— it worked 200yrs ago for the Brits. What changed, Who turned His back on them?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  harbidoll

The britishstinians are a lot like their new owners, stuck in the past, incapable of change.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Yes, I have often pondered that, how the western Europeans are stuck in the past, unaware of what is happening in the present.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

They are in denial, facing today would be acknowledging their collective stupidity. Instead of taking the first, which is the lowest loss, they will prolong it to utter destruction.

scheradoD
scherado
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

See you in hell.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  scherado

Nope, not going there, but if you want to, that will be completely your choice.

scheradoD
scherado
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

My point has been made. Yuk it up. That is your choice. It’s about as funny as a bad rash that just won’t go away.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  scherado

The only point observed is the one on top of your head.

scheradoD
scherado
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

The only point observed is the one on top of your head.

You have been added as the most recent entry on The New Kid On The Block (list) despite your advanced age.

Congratulations. It’s a banner day! You’re number 3 and it isn’t lunchtime yet.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  scherado

Am I supposed to care?

Ron Cole
Ron Cole
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Please lighten up.comment image
It can not help it.

gfmucci
gfmucci
6 years ago

That’s right, FOOLS, put the burden on the innocent 95% of the population. IGNORE the 5% who are Muslims who have carried out 100% of such attacks. Oh, and yes, keep banning and arresting those who tell the truth about the rape- and terror-promoting Islamic ideology so we don’t hurt anyone’s feelings.

Richard
Richard
6 years ago

Even if I could believe it, that Britain would start to get tough on these dirt bags, it is to little to late. They are bone deep.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

I seem to remember the Nice killer truck being stolen from its rightful owner by a muslum amazingly enough! A muslum who just happened to be on-board the truck he had stolen when it rammed into all those kafir al najjis in Nice.

roccolore
roccolore
6 years ago

Already too little too late.

scheradoD
scherado
6 years ago

Reality will only dawn on the political elites when it is absolutely impossible to avoid by turning off the TV and retreating to their summer houses.

Nice dream. I won’t post a link to the appropriate Youu-toob video by Radiohead.

Perhaps, the author ran short on the agreed word-count and had to pad the void.

The sentence, the meaning of the sentence makes the reader wonder what the author’s been smoking.

AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
6 years ago

UK Gets Tough On Terror,…. they’re going to WATCH them closer !!!

AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
6 years ago

UK Gets Tough On Terror,…. by digging fresh holes for their buried heads !!!

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Jackie Puppet
Jackie Puppet
6 years ago

Until the mosques are searched for contraband, they can ban everything they want, and it won’t make a heap of the difference.

rickyoo
rickyoo
6 years ago
Reply to  Jackie Puppet

If the British PC police searched a Mosque or Mosques and did not find anything incriminating, then the Muslims would be shouting racism, Islamophobia and persecution of their ‘peaceful religion’ The government would then offer a sincere apology and throw more money at these parasites.

kirana
kirana
6 years ago

This is all about Establishment’s control. It is not that they always one step behind every terror attack or that they couldn’t prevent it in time if not not before time. They have all the intelligence’s data, most of the suspects were/are not unknown to them. The thing is, they also play the same game, to cast psychological terror on people’s lives, that in time people will wholefully dependent on them for their safety, that they will have full control on people’s safety measures. People will have no choice but willingly to let them do whatever it takes ‘to guarantee’ their safety, which will give them access to every aspect of control both in personal and public affairs. The trick is to let you invite them willingly to intrude your personal and public life. This is an engineering tactic most western people are not aware of. Freedom one thought of having is an illusion.

In most Asian countries, this is everyday fact, we knew our freedom is not freedom but ‘conditional freedom granted by the state’, something which then these jihadists take as pretext for their own advantages. They mostly attacked police or military posts with civilians around to make their statement that they plan to take over both. So th government had no choice but to safe their faces first, by doing everything to prevent them first and foremost, while in doing so to remind peopl that their safety is in ‘state’s’ hands.

We always want to be like the west with all its freedom but now, we can only pity, that you are all in the same s**t-hole like us except, you cqn still speak up doesn’t mean you have control over your own safety, it is just that what have left of your freedom, to speak and argue in public, blaming each other political views here and there, left agains right, right against left, etc. And in the end that’s just it. The government will be the one to make decision, to judge, to tak e action, in simple it thinks and do for you, you like it or not. Maybe it is time for everyone everywhere to make a choice about where should we put our trust on our own safety and prosperity. The west have did what Israelites did righ after exodus and many tims over in their kingdom, rejecting God and they failed themselves miserably. Now the west taking the same path in history. Repent people, repent! Before it is too late! Better late than never!

Peter Joffe
Peter Joffe
6 years ago

Tough on terror? Really?? Deport all Muslims as that terror will stop the terror. Let more in means more Brits will die but then we cannot be Islamophobic, can we?? Is it not racial profiling to ban Muslims from hiring vehicles? Better idea is to ban all motor vehicles from public roads. We can go back to ox carts as they move slower and are uniquely to cause any damage other than a dung clearance problem. Lets cure the symptom of Islam Terror instead of curing the origin of Islam terror and that is Islam itself? As long as we tolerate evil from the dark ages the more people will die.

Alleged Comment
Alleged Comment
6 years ago

We MUST ACCOMMODATE Moslems in every way.

They REALLY do want the New World Odor. How long can the public put up with their wayward and EVIL leaders before DEMANDING they and their g*adamn CURSED Moslem must leave??

Michael Buley
Michael Buley
6 years ago

When we realize that Islam is the weapon of choice of the one world government masters, then all of it makes sense. It’s not that complicated. Unleash murderers and tyrants into free countries. Support them. And let them do their thing. What else does Islam do, but what Islam is doing? It kills, brutalizes, rapes, and conquers. They’re quite adept at it.

Islam is the enemy of the people; it is the preferred method of globalists, to destroy free countries. The ‘world leaders’ will never declare war on Islam, because Islam is doing its bidding.

This fight, if it’s to be won — and the question remains if it can be won or will be won — will come down to we the people. And it appears that the United States is the last fish to be fried.

Isaac_G
Isaac_G
6 years ago

Even this initiative won’t survive a day and the first accusation of Islamophobia.

Ichabod Crain
Ichabod Crain
6 years ago

Rentals cars should have a clause right in the contract, and even sticker on the dash saying “This car may not be used for Jihad attacks”. That will be just as effective as anything else they are doing right now to prevent these attacks.

DaveM12
DaveM12
6 years ago

I thought Ramavan was over.

Dogandcat
Dogandcat
6 years ago

And what about banning matches? Fires are now being promoted to kill………a lot easier than a renting a van, and difficult to catch. Not just arson to homes, buildings, but forests. Canada’s huge forest fires are partly arson but we won’t know…….And lets not forget how easy it is to derail a train!

David
David
6 years ago

Same garbage started with GWB, who was obviously a collaborator with the Muslims.

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago

fixing the wrong problem…

rickyoo
rickyoo
6 years ago

Reality will only dawn on the political elites when it affects them personally. At present they are doing nothing of any consequence to stop these attacks. After an attack Theresa May will come out and say how horrified she is and “enough is enough” and do nothing, while being fully aware that there are more than 20,000 ISIS supporters and ex ISIS fighters residing in the UK that could strike at anytime. If the government really cared about the safety of the non Muslim population they would deport or intern these potential terrorists. The country is a ticking time bomb and the PC government along with the PC police will never diffuse it, as they do not want to upset these maggots that they treat as a protected species.

rickyoo
rickyoo
6 years ago

Exactly, but it will never happen with the spineless creatures in government and the Muslim loving PC police.

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