How To Fight The Lone Wolf

[PGreen]

The lone wolf is the new nightmare, dramatized and amplified this week by the hostage-taking attack in Sydney. But there are two kinds of lone wolves — the crazy and the evil — and the distinction is important.

How to fight the lone wolf - The Washington Post

Our country is very attractive for terrorists and that's a fact. There have been 2,608 total attacks and 226 fatal attacks in the United States between 1970 and 2011. Just about every part of the United States has been hit by some form of terrorist attack since 1970.
We should be very careful.

 

[WinterBorn]

The lone wolf is the new nightmare, dramatized and amplified this week by the hostage-taking attack in Sydney. But there are two kinds of lone wolves — the crazy and the evil — and the distinction is important.

How to fight the lone wolf - The Washington Post

Our country is very attractive for terrorists and that's a fact. There have been 2,608 total attacks and 226 fatal attacks in the United States between 1970 and 2011. Just about every part of the United States has been hit by some form of terrorist attack since 1970.
We should be very careful.

As the article says, there are two types, the crazy and the evil. But since both often involve people willing to die in their crusade, the only way to stop them (or even seriously limit them) is to remove our personal freedoms to a point that is unacceptable.

A free society is never a safe place to live.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

"We should be very careful."

Hide under the bed with your guns?

 

[jwoodie]

"Lone Wolf" is the latest term utilized by the Left to obfuscate the reality of Islamic terrorism by implying that individuals who kill innocents in the name of Allah are not really terrorists.

 

[WinterBorn]

"Lone Wolf" is the latest term utilized by the Left to obfuscate the reality of Islamic terrorism by implying that individuals who kill innocents in the name of Allah are not really terrorists.

No, they use the term to include everyone who commits these atrocities, whether there are religious connections or not. And they use the term, within the context of religious murderers, to differentiate between group efforts (like the school slaughter by the Taliban) and individual efforts (like the hostage situation in Australia and the shooting on the military base).

This is not a Left v. Right topic. This is about psychos and evil killers.

 

[jwoodie]

"Lone Wolf" is the latest term utilized by the Left to obfuscate the reality of Islamic terrorism by implying that individuals who kill innocents in the name of Allah are not really terrorists.

No, they use the term to include everyone who commits these atrocities, whether there are religious connections or not. And they use the term, within the context of religious murderers, to differentiate between group efforts (like the school slaughter by the Taliban) and individual efforts (like the hostage situation in Australia and the shooting on the military base).

This is not a Left v. Right topic. This is about psychos and evil killers.

You just proved my point. The term is being used to take Islam out of the terrorist debate.

 

[WinterBorn]

"Lone Wolf" is the latest term utilized by the Left to obfuscate the reality of Islamic terrorism by implying that individuals who kill innocents in the name of Allah are not really terrorists.

No, they use the term to include everyone who commits these atrocities, whether there are religious connections or not. And they use the term, within the context of religious murderers, to differentiate between group efforts (like the school slaughter by the Taliban) and individual efforts (like the hostage situation in Australia and the shooting on the military base).

This is not a Left v. Right topic. This is about psychos and evil killers.

You just proved my point. The term is being used to take Islam out of the terrorist debate.

Are all terrorist attacks islamic?

 

[jwoodie]

"Lone Wolf" is the latest term utilized by the Left to obfuscate the reality of Islamic terrorism by implying that individuals who kill innocents in the name of Allah are not really terrorists.

No, they use the term to include everyone who commits these atrocities, whether there are religious connections or not. And they use the term, within the context of religious murderers, to differentiate between group efforts (like the school slaughter by the Taliban) and individual efforts (like the hostage situation in Australia and the shooting on the military base).

This is not a Left v. Right topic. This is about psychos and evil killers.

You just proved my point. The term is being used to take Islam out of the terrorist debate.

Are all terrorist attacks islamic?

Terrorism is an attack on innocents for the purpose of furthering a religious or political goal. Pretty much an exclusive province of Islam these days.

 

[WinterBorn]

"Lone Wolf" is the latest term utilized by the Left to obfuscate the reality of Islamic terrorism by implying that individuals who kill innocents in the name of Allah are not really terrorists.

No, they use the term to include everyone who commits these atrocities, whether there are religious connections or not. And they use the term, within the context of religious murderers, to differentiate between group efforts (like the school slaughter by the Taliban) and individual efforts (like the hostage situation in Australia and the shooting on the military base).

This is not a Left v. Right topic. This is about psychos and evil killers.

You just proved my point. The term is being used to take Islam out of the terrorist debate.

Are all terrorist attacks islamic?

Terrorism is an attack on innocents for the purpose of furthering a religious or political goal. Pretty much an exclusive province of Islam these days.

That wasn't what I asked. Are all terrorist attacks islamic? The answer is no.

So if you focus only on islamic terrorism, you will be talking about the majority but not all of them.

Also, to discuss the single terrorist is a different topic than a group effort. And discussing the two separate types, psychos and evil, can clarify the problem even more. Making it a religious witchhunt does nothing.

 

[Nosmo King]

"Lone Wolf" is the latest term utilized by the Left to obfuscate the reality of Islamic terrorism by implying that individuals who kill innocents in the name of Allah are not really terrorists.

No, they use the term to include everyone who commits these atrocities, whether there are religious connections or not. And they use the term, within the context of religious murderers, to differentiate between group efforts (like the school slaughter by the Taliban) and individual efforts (like the hostage situation in Australia and the shooting on the military base).

This is not a Left v. Right topic. This is about psychos and evil killers.

You just proved my point. The term is being used to take Islam out of the terrorist debate.

Are all terrorist attacks islamic?

Terrorism is an attack on innocents for the purpose of furthering a religious or political goal. Pretty much an exclusive province of Islam these days.

Too bad we can't ask Timothy McVeigh about his religion. But then again, he was a Right Winger with and attitude. Did his actions rise to the threshold of terrorism?

 

[WinterBorn]

"Lone Wolf" is the latest term utilized by the Left to obfuscate the reality of Islamic terrorism by implying that individuals who kill innocents in the name of Allah are not really terrorists.

No, they use the term to include everyone who commits these atrocities, whether there are religious connections or not. And they use the term, within the context of religious murderers, to differentiate between group efforts (like the school slaughter by the Taliban) and individual efforts (like the hostage situation in Australia and the shooting on the military base).

This is not a Left v. Right topic. This is about psychos and evil killers.

You just proved my point. The term is being used to take Islam out of the terrorist debate.

Are all terrorist attacks islamic?

Terrorism is an attack on innocents for the purpose of furthering a religious or political goal. Pretty much an exclusive province of Islam these days.

Too bad we can't ask Timothy McVeigh about his religion. But then again, he was a Right Winger with and attitude. Did his actions rise to the threshold of terrorism?

Or the bombings done by the IRA. Are they secretly muslims? Thankfully those seem to have stopped.

 

[jwoodie]

"Lone Wolf" is the latest term utilized by the Left to obfuscate the reality of Islamic terrorism by implying that individuals who kill innocents in the name of Allah are not really terrorists.

No, they use the term to include everyone who commits these atrocities, whether there are religious connections or not. And they use the term, within the context of religious murderers, to differentiate between group efforts (like the school slaughter by the Taliban) and individual efforts (like the hostage situation in Australia and the shooting on the military base).

This is not a Left v. Right topic. This is about psychos and evil killers.

You just proved my point. The term is being used to take Islam out of the terrorist debate.

Are all terrorist attacks islamic?

Terrorism is an attack on innocents for the purpose of furthering a religious or political goal. Pretty much an exclusive province of Islam these days.

Too bad we can't ask Timothy McVeigh about his religion. But then again, he was a Right Winger with and attitude. Did his actions rise to the threshold of terrorism?

Yes, Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist with a political agenda. So was the IRA. But terrorism has been the exclusive province of Islam during the last decade, and there is no sign of it abating any time soon. The most disturbing aspect of it is the religious goal of eliminating nonbelievers.

 

[Nosmo King]

No, they use the term to include everyone who commits these atrocities, whether there are religious connections or not. And they use the term, within the context of religious murderers, to differentiate between group efforts (like the school slaughter by the Taliban) and individual efforts (like the hostage situation in Australia and the shooting on the military base).

This is not a Left v. Right topic. This is about psychos and evil killers.

You just proved my point. The term is being used to take Islam out of the terrorist debate.

Are all terrorist attacks islamic?

Terrorism is an attack on innocents for the purpose of furthering a religious or political goal. Pretty much an exclusive province of Islam these days.

Too bad we can't ask Timothy McVeigh about his religion. But then again, he was a Right Winger with and attitude. Did his actions rise to the threshold of terrorism?

Yes, Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist with a political agenda. So was the IRA. But terrorism has been the exclusive province of Islam during the last decade, and there is no sign of it abating any time soon. The most disturbing aspect of it is the religious goal of eliminating nonbelievers.

Terrorism is the tactic used by all disgruntled groups without a military infrastructure to advance their agenda. It is not exclusive to Islamic radicals. It is not fair, appropriate or prudent to call all Muslims terrorists.

 

[skye]

The Islamic threat, whether by a lone wolf or a larger attack, is worldwide in their commitment to jihad and establishment to a Muslim calipahte.

No other lone wolfs historically can have any comparison to the current danger posed by militant Islam!
They are patient and will wait for decades or even centuries until their goal is achieved.

Any comparisons with McVeigh, or IRA are simply denial of the facts and indicate a cowardly lack of realism!