Mumbai Terror Attacks Highlight Global Nature of Threat From Radical Islam
Political correctness is still making it difficult for people in the West to understand fully the seriousness of the threat from radical Islam.
by Melvin Rhodes
After the train bombings in the Indian city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) on July 11, there was fairly extensive reporting on the terror attacks in the Lansing State Journal, the daily newspaper that serves the state capital of Michigan. The chief suspects, according to the Associated Press article, were "Kashmiri separatists."
Not once were the words Muslim or Islamic mentioned, in keeping with the tenets of political correctness that still maintain that all religions are equally valid and that Islam is really a religion of peace! However, Kashmiri separatists are all Muslims, fighting to break away from predominantly Hindu India and unite with the Islamic nation of Pakistan.
At the same time, it should be noted that a number of trains were blown up in Mumbai, all within 11 minutes. Simultaneous attacks are a trademark of al-Qaeda. These attacks on the rapid transit system in India's financial capital are very similar to previous attacks in Madrid in 2004 and in London in 2005.
Following the July 11 attacks, security was heightened in New York, America's financial capital. It appears increasingly as if al-Qaeda is targeting financial centers in an attempt to bring down the Western financial system. Mumbai, the financial center at the heart of one of the world's fastest-growing economies, was the most likely target in India for this reason.
The bombings all took place in the rush hour, again copying those in Madrid and London, indicating the bombings are the work of a regional al-Qaeda affiliate, as Muslim militants around the world increasingly work together to achieve the common goal of Islamic domination.
