Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Sadly, Jihad doesn’t wait for American holidays, so here’s a roundup of related news:
- 13-year old Pakistani girl gang-raped by members of the ruling party for her brother’s involvement in helping another woman get married to the man she loved (rather than an arranged marriage).
- Not wild about the Ground Zero Mosque? You might be paying for it.
- Even The New York Times notices Britain’s jihad schools. All it took was a program on the BBC. Maybe the Beeb could do a piece on how higher taxes and bigger government are actually unpopular among Americans…
- New “anti-bullying” law may just be another way to restrict politically incorrect speech on campus…including criticism of the Religion of Peace.
- Oppressive Middle Eastern regime with ties to terrorist groups stonewalling International Atomic Energy Agency about their nuclear program. Hmmm, for some reason that scenario sounds strangely familiar…
- Hezbollah threatens to take over Lebanon.
- It’s not a surprise when Pakistani officials defend the Taliban, since they were essentially created by the Pakistani ISI. However, it’s a bit more surprising when it comes from the Minister of Tourism.
- Of course, The Pakistani ISI are not to be confused with the Islamic State of Iraq terrorist group, which is currently railing against…Microsoft? (You have to be an MEMRI subscriber to see the full report. I may have to sign up…)
- This week’s winner in Irrational Fatwa Bingo is…blood donations.
- Finally, less a link than a question. Yesterday, in the course of fisking the latest WaPo gun control article, Dwight at Whipped Cream Difficulties linked to this table of law enforcement deaths over the last decade. The odd thing is that it shows 5 police deaths by terrorism in 2007, and despite racking my brain, I can’t think of any terrorist incidents that involved police officers that year. Can anyone figure out how and where those five deaths occured?
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Those five deaths by terrorism could easily have been categorized that way if the perp made “terroristic threats” some time during their incident, a useful data point for the US Department of Security Theater.
“Can anyone figure out how and where those five deaths occured?”
The answer to that question raises more questions than it answers.
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund has a detailed breakdown of 2007 deaths here. According to that document, “17 federal law enforcement officers died last year [2007 – DB] including six members of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, five of whom were killed in Iraq.”
Based on that statement, I am assuming that those were the five deaths attributed to “terrorist activity”. But wouldn’t members of the Air Force OSI be uniformed military personal? Should those be counted as civilian law enforcement deaths? They are tragic, to be sure, but I think there’s a major distinction between law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty domestically, and uniformed military people killed in the line of duty during military actions abroad. There have been several police officers killed while serving with the National Guard or other military organizations in Iraq and Afghanistan; I wouldn’t include those in the yearly figures for law enforcement deaths, either.