Apparently a little known terrorist group called Soldiers of Levant has claimed responsiblity for the attack on the British consulate in New York. While the basic newspapers aren’t reporting it; citing that police don’t think it’s credible, I think, personally, that the police don’t want a panic. Credible or not, this is scary stuff. I’m inclined to believe it; and I think that this whole thing is being played down– and it shouldn’t. This is all of matter of time in my opinion; Americans shouldn’t be ignoring it– we knew that terrorists were going to try again, and now it seems they have.

How can I make this clear? We’re at war, we have been for long time now. It hasn’t always been real to us because most of the time it’s not on our soil. But it was on that day. It may be again today or tomorrow or the next day. This isn’t an incident we can brush aside as trivial. There are hundreds of people who want us dead, simply because we are Americans. Think about that for a minute. There are people out there, right now, cleaning their AK-47s, and think, inshallah (god willing), I can murder that American. Thinking, desiring, thirsting over your blood. Isn’t that a little disturbing? Just a bit? That’s not to scare anyone into doing something, that’s the truth. So when Americans wake up to an incident like the one that just occured in New York, we should be reflecting on it and what we can do to stop it– not merely waving it aside.

AKI
SITE Institute