In a sense Khan and Valls are correct. Terror is indeed something that the residents of London, Paris, Antwerp and many other cities are going to have to learn to live with. In the same way that the residents of Istanbul, Beirut and Islamabad have had to learn to live with the same.
Yet why it might be that London, Paris and Antwerp are having to accustom themselves to the security status of Istanbul, Beirut and Islamabad is a question that nobody in any position of power seems keen to ask.
Douglas Murray, Pray for London, for Antwerp, for Nice: this is Europe’s new normal (via elementarynationalism)
in other news the Blitz and the IRA never happened
(via argumate)
The Blitz was a war between states. The IRA had tactics that involved scaring people out and then blowing up expensive empty buildings. Both of them have potential off-switches long before “our religion takes over the world”.
