The recent mayhem on London Bridge should remind everyone of the eternal evil of Islamic terrorism.
On November 29, Usman Khan, a supposedly former terrorist, wounded three people and fatally stabbed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt, two young Britons who — in an excruciating irony — participated in that day’s meeting (near the bridge) of Learning Together, an organization that claims to rehabilitate terrorists. Khan, 28, was considered one of its model students.
As Giulio Meotti recalled in a chilling essay for the Gatestone Institute, Khan wrote glowingly about his experiences with this outfit. “Learning Together is about opening minds, unlocking doors, and giving voice to those who are shutdown, hidden from the rest of us.”
It was all quite touching, really, until Khan forgot whatever he learned together, donned a fake bomb vest, strapped knives to his wrists, and then murdered these idealistic young people before lightning-quick lawmen shot him to death in a pristine use of police power.
Khan, it soon emerged, was convicted in 2012 for planning to detonate the London Stock Exchange, then-mayor of London Boris Johnson, and the London Eye, a mega-Ferris wheel on the Thames. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Never mind all that! Khan was sprung in December 2018, after just eight years behind bars. Khan posthumously exposed the stupid and deadly practice of freeing terrorists before they finish their sentences, for which there is simply no justification.
According to Meotti, the Behavioural Insights Team studied 33 of the United Kingdom’s deradicalization programs. Only two were deemed successful. British criminologist Simon Cottee has mocked the prevailing “deadly delusions about curing terrorists.”
A French Senate report called that nation’s de-radicalization campaign a “total fiasco.” French lawmakers who visited one such facility in Chateau de Pontourny were appalled to learn that it housed exactly one reputedly recovering terrorist. A seemingly reformed terrorist named Mickaël Harpon worked for a French police terrorist-tracking unit. All was swell until Harpon committed a terror attack inside Paris police headquarters.
When then is to be done?
The most sensible thing to do with these Islamic extremist killers is to execute them. Membership in al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS, and similar jihadist groups should be reason enough to liquidate these murderers before they neutralize any more innocents.
The ISIS fighters now in Syria should be wiped out. A single, swift mass trial and prompt executions would eliminate this deadly threat, which only grows as every day tempts individual or mass escapes from their captivity under highly distracted Kurdish forces.
European nations should grow a collective vertebra and enact the death penalty for terrorists.
Britons on Thursday wisely chose to keep incumbent Boris Johnson as their prime minister. He led the Conservatives to win 365 seats in the House of Commons — a 39-seat majority , and 66 more seats than it had before the election. This places the Tories in their strongest position since 1987, during the premiership of Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher. Johnson and the Conservatives won primarily on Brexit, but opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn’s response to the London Bridge attack did Labour no favours.
After Khan’s killings, Sky News asked Corbyn if terrorists should finish their prison sentences. “Not necessarily, no,” Corbyn replied. “I think it depends on the circumstances and depends on the sentence and crucially depends on what they’ve done in prison.”
Corbyn, thus, confirmed that his skull is softer than scones.
Earlier, Meotti reports, that the far-Left Corbyn has had been caught on camera “protesting the extradition of British terror suspects, including two aides to Osama bin Laden.”
It’s little surprise, then, that Corbyn dragged Labour down 42 seats, to a total of 203 members on its benches — the party’s weakest showing since 1935.
Conversely, after Khan’s bloodshed, Prime Minister Johnson told the Telegraph: “We must keep violent offenders and terrorists in jail longer and end the automatic early release system.” Johnson is tougher than Corbyn and, especially after his landslide win, likelier to make terrorists pay the ultimate price for their fundamental evil.
From London to Long Beach, remember this: Dead men tell no tales, nor do they stab people to death at Terrorists Anonymous conferences.
https://townhall.com/columnists/deroymurdock/2019/12/15/war-on-terror-fight-terrorism-execute-terrorists-n2558023
