Ongoing terror in Mumbai

There is still sporadic gun fire and explosions in Mumbai (Bombay).  This has been a well orchestrated attack and more information is coming out about the attacks.  3 Pakistanis were arrested and shed information on who has done the attack.  Lashkar-e-Tayiba are a terrorist group associated with Al Queda and have helped the Indian Mujahideeen, but carried out this attack themselves.

The terrorists have taken hostages in a Jewish center and at least 5 believed to be killed.  The terrorists also have attacked hospitals and train stations.

Here is a map of the area where the attacks occurred:

You can click here for a bigger map.

But in the face of danger and the chaos many have become heroes and saved many lives.  Staff from the Taj Majal Hotel saved many lives and stayed calm throughout and helped many escape the gunmen.

“The hotel staff has been very, very brave,” Mangeshikar said. “Hats off to them.”

As we go farther and farther from 9/11, we have become lulled into thinking the Islamo-Fascist threat is over. As we can see with the attacks on Mumbai, they are not beaten.  Hopefully this will shed light to all of us that the threat from the Islamo-Fascists is real and that they will stop at nothing until the whole world is Mislim.

What we do as a nation will have an impact on the rest of the world, and I hope that Obama  will have the fortitude and not give in the the Islamo-Fascists.  I know I do not agree with much with Obama, but I do know that he wants to do what is bestfor this country and the world, and with a little Hope, maybe he can be that President. Hopefully he will not follow Clinton’s footsteps and go after the Terrorists Jusdicially and will go after them Militarily. time will tell, but we must help Obama if he makes the right decision and critisize him if he makes the wrong decision.

Terrorists hit Mumbai

Many coordinated attacks in Mumbai (Bombay)

Terror attacks in Mumbai; 80 dead, over 250 injured

MUMBAI: Terror struck the country’s financial capital late on Wednesday night as coordinate serial explosions and indiscriminate firing rocked Terror attacks in Mumbai eight areas across Mumbai including the crowded CST railway station, two five star hotels–Oberoi and Taj. ( Watch )

At least 80 people were dead and 250 injured in the terror attacks, hospital sources said.

ATS chief Hemant Karkare was killed during attacks in the financial city. Additional Commissioner Ashok Tampte and encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar died at attack in Metro Cinema.

Two terrorists were still inside the Oberoi Hotel and commando operation was on.

Two terrorists were killed at Chaupatti in Mumbai, police said.

The Army and Navy in Mumbai were put on alert. 65 Army commandos and 200 NSG commandos were being rushed to Mumbai, Home Minister Shivraj Patil said.

Terrorists hijacked white police jeep near Metro cinema in South Mumbai .—The Times of India

What Will Succeed Western Civilization?

Thought-provoking piece at Gates of Vienna speculating about what will replace Western Civilization when it becomes exhausted.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

The Rise of Eastern Civilization

by Baron Bodissey

The West may eventually rebound from the current financial crisis and return to more or less its normal baseline. On the other hand, it may not; this could well be the beginning of a permanent decline, and the end of Western ascendancy. It’s still too early to tell.

To use an analogy from evolutionary biology, the last four hundred years — the heyday of Western Civilization — have been characterized by “punctuated equilibrium”. Decades of relative stability and coherence are punctuated by sudden bursts of chaos, violence, turbulence, and irrationality. Each discontinuity that breaks the equilibrium has its own interior logic, and after it runs its course, another stable period begins. The punctuation resolves into a new equilibrium based on an emergent balance of forces and political entities, different from the one that preceded the upheaval.

For Western Civilization, the punctuations of the last 250 years may be defined as follows:
1789-1815           The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The new equilibrium was ushered in by the Congress of Vienna with Metternich as the architect.
1848           The year of revolutions. In the aftermath of 1848 the two great ideological strains of modern times — socialism and nationalism — were born. The equilibrium that followed was ultimately unstable, and led to the cataclysms of the 20th century.
1914-1945           The Great Wars. Our most recent equilibrium was structured by the formation of the United Nations and the long standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The second of these equilibria — from 1848 to 1914 — was the peak of European power and cultural influence, the great flowering of Western Civilization that spread across the globe.

The most recent punctuation, the one that ended in 1945, severely weakened the cultural fabric of the West, guaranteeing that we would eventually face the next crisis. A new discontinuity seems to be upon us now, a perfect storm formed by convergent political, cultural, and economic winds.

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When the next punctuation has run its course, there’s no guarantee that the West will retain its ascendancy in the aftermath. As Conservative Swede has often pointed out, there are manifold signs of spiritual and civilizational enervation in all Western countries. All of our political systems have been infected in varying degrees by the postmodern Marxist virus that manifests itself as Political Correctness and Multiculturalism.

This blog [Gates of Vienna] focuses on the struggle of the West against Islam, but Islam is the symptom, not the disease itself. Islamic culture is a parasite upon the wealth and benignity of Western Civilization, and cannot survive without it. The petrodollars are a large part of the problem, but the main issue is a severely diminished cultural resistance that grants the Islamic virus an opportunity to take hold throughout the West.

When the West falls, Islam will fall with it. The civilization that rises to replace us will not share our Multicultural fastidiousness, and will deal with the Muslims in whatever manner seems expedient when the time comes.

And who will our replacements be?

Three articles from today’s news stories offer us some hints. The first one is from AKI:

Go here to read the whole thing and the three articles with commentary that may surprise you as much as it surprised me.  Gates of Vienna