After Copenhagen, we are tragically reminded that our leaders are sending mixed messages about terrorism both in their dithering about Islamist terror against Israel, and their absurd statements that Islam is an irrelevant factor
Following Saturday’s deadly attacks in Copenhagen, on a meeting on free speech at a cafe and then outside a synagogue, the condemnations have, of course, been rolling in fast. They are not insincere. Who, after all, outside terrorist circles, actually welcomes murder?
But that has never been the problem. The problem is that our leaders, from the White House, through Westminster and across Europe continue to lack clarity about what this is all about.
Here is what this is all about. For decades now, the Islamic world has been producing ideas and groups who believe there is a world-historic zero sum game at play between Islam and Western-style liberal-democracy, with the Jewish people in general and the State of Israel in particular right in the front-line of the war.