Imagine if more people did that.
How difficult is it to stop Muslim terrorism? Not very if people were actually told who to look out for, instead of being told they’re Islamophobes for noticing suspicious activity by possible terrorists.
One local woman in the UK noticed suspicious activity and did the right thing.
The suspected terror plot to attack a British base that is used by US bombers was potentially foiled by a nosy farmer in the local village who saw masked men in vans acting suspiciously and called the cops, according to a report.
The unidentified farmer, who lives on the edge of the airbase, was returning from a party in the early hours when she came across three seemingly abandoned white vans blocking a quiet country lane, the Telegraph reported.
As she turned her car around to go back, she suddenly saw a group of men wearing ski masks scattering into the trees and across fields towards the base.
“I just thought what the hell are they doing… I saw a group of Middle Eastern-looking young guys running off through the trees. Some of them had masks or balaclavas on, and they all scattered ahead of us as we drove back past,” she told the Telegraph.
“Some of them ran into the fields, and some of them turned to run towards the air base. We realised this was something pretty serious. We knew the air base had a credible threat of a terrorist attack before last night. So as soon as I saw them I was worried,” the farmer continued.
“We thought something was going on as they had housed B1 bombers at the base until earlier this week when they were moved. And then suddenly they started blocking entrances to the air base,” she said.
If more people thought “what the hell are they doing”, instead of “I’m a bad person for noticing”, so many attacks could have been stopped.
Including potentially September 11.
I got an instant chill when I looked at him. I got this grip in my stomach and then, of course, I gave myself a political correct slap…I thought, “My God, Michael, these are just a couple of Arab businessmen.”
That was ticket agent Michael Tuohey’s recollection of his encounter with Mohammed Atta at the check-in desk of U.S. Airways in Portland on the morning of September 11, 2001.
If only more people noticed and stopped slapping themselves down. And if only our political and cultural establishment had stood by the post 9/11 call to report suspicious activity, instead of crying about ‘Islamophobia’, imagine how many lives could have been saved.
Wellington says
Ah yes, the “Middle Eastern Me problem.” A monumental problem for all of the West.
But it didn’t need to come anywhere close to being so much of a problem if only those in the West in 2026 and the previous half century were as aware of the “Middle Eastern Me problem” as were those in the West in 1026 and going back as far back as the 7th and 8th centuries AD.
So much for progress, eh? Oh yeah, man steps forward often times (e.g., Western technology over the past several centuries) but seems to step backwards just as often (e.g., the West stupidly concluding in our era that Islam is just another religion).
Wellington says
“Men” and not “Me.” Oh the humanity! But then perhaps I wasn’t that far off after all since Muslim men and “meism” are effectively synonymous.
somehistory says
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“Hundreds of Israelis led by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under police protection.
The Jerusalem governorate on Monday said Israeli forces closed intersections and streets surrounding the Old City that lead to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which Jews refer to as the Temple Mount, in occupied East Jerusalem on the third day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.’
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ben-gvir-joins-hundreds-of-israelis-to-storm-al-aqsa-mosque-compound/ar-AA2d7CSy?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6ababc91e0744faeaa26b68938ea8d3f&ei=42