How Blair Will Benefit
from UK Terrorist Attack
- from The Insider
Information Bulletin -
(Posted here by Wes Penre for
Illuminati News, March 26, 2004)
A
survey has been carried out in Britain to predict the political results of a
terrorist attack in the UK. The survey confirms that Blair's government can use
terrorism to win votes, in the same way as the Bush administration hopes to in
the US. The authorities say that a major attack is "inevitable".
The Daily Telegraph newspaper which sponsored the survey reported the findings
beneath the main headline story on the front page: "Muslim culture has
contributed little for centuries..." It is a classic case of anti-Muslim
propaganda, woven from threads of a speech by the former head of the Church of
England. In his sermon, Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury,
attempts to drag the debate between Christianity and Islam backward a thousand
years into Dark Ages and the days of the medieval Crusades. Fortunately, these
days we can question fire-and-brimstone preachers without being burned alive,
and old anti-Islam misconceptions like these have been discussed and disproved
time and again.
A man with Lord Carey's education and wisdom should know that some of these
points are simply not true. He complains that Islam forbids you from questioning
the scriptures: "believers are told, because they have come direct from Allah,
they are not to be questioned or revised." In fact, the Koran challenges people
to find an error or write something better (4:82, 2:23).
This is something that Muslims are proud of, and the two verses in question are
among the best known in the whole book. Unfortunately, most people will simply
take Lord Carey's word for it, and the mass media reports what he says but fails
to question it.
Nobody knows how much Lord Carey was paid to make his speech against Islam
yesterday in Rome. As a member of the Establishment as well as an old-fashioned
Christian, he might even have done it for free.
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SOURCES
Daily Telegraph (UK), "Voters would back Blair if terrorists hit elections",
front-page, 26 March 2004.
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A major terrorist atrocity during a general election campaign would not
necessarily lead to a Spanish-style backlash against Tony Blair's Government,
according to a YouGov poll for the Telegraph today.
The survey suggests that most voters believe Britain is almost certain to be a
terrorist target within the next two or three years.
...
The poll indicates that the public has taken on board repeated warnings from
ministers and police chiefs that a terrorist attack is "inevitable".
Last week, Sir John Stevens, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, said trains,
buses, pubs and night clubs were all potential targets but urged people not to
panic.
According to YouGov, 95 per cent of those questioned think a terrorist attack
may well take place in Britain, with 66 per cent convinced it is either "almost
certain" or "very likely".
A large majority, 77 per cent, believes that the invasions of Afghanistan and
Iraq have increased the chances of an attack.
Many of those questioned believe there is a fair chance that they, a family
member or a good friend may be killed or wounded. Almost no one believes this
country is safe. Three in four accept that Britain's close alliance with the US
in the war on terror has increased our vulnerability.
Almost no one believes that the "special relationship" has improved domestic
security.
...
Daily Telegraph (UK), "Muslim culture has contributed little for centuries, says
Carey", front-page, 26 March 2004.
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Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, launched a trenchant attack on
Islamic culture last night, saying it was authoritarian, inflexible and
under-achieving.
In a speech that will upset sensitive relations between the faiths, he denounced
moderate Muslims for failing unequivocally to condemn the "evil"
of suicide bombers.
...
Dr Carey's comments, in a lecture in Rome, are the most forthright by a senior
Church leader. He was speaking on the eve of a seminar of Christian and Muslim
scholars in New York, led by his successor as archbishop, Dr Rowan Williams.
...
"In the case of Islam, Mohammed, acknowledged by all in spite of his religious
greatness to be an illiterate man, is said to have received God's word direct,
word by word from angels, and scribes recorded them later.
"Thus believers are told, because they have come direct from Allah, they are not
to be questioned or revised.
...
Iqbal Sacranie, the secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said
that Dr Carey's comments "saddened" him.
"He should be well aware that mainstream Muslim organisations have consistently
condemned terrorist acts but their statements are often ignored by the media,"
he said.
Updated/Revised:
Friday, March 26, 2004 05:23:35 -0800