The population of Europe is three-quarters of a million. They're going to have to go some to kill us all at this rate. Ray is absolutely right. This is militarily ineffective, it's just designed to provoke fear and over reaction.
I'm in London and the effect of the Westminster attacks on people's actual behaviour is... zero.
So true. (apart from the bit about the pop. of Europe being three-quarters of a million
)
The fact that it is militarily ineffective is irellevent to those who carry out these atrocities. Each attack isn't designed to
win any war. It's designed to be part of what eventually
starts a war.
They are looking to create an us and them scenario. Muslims in one camp and everyone else in the other. They actually
want us all to hate Muslims. They
want fellow Muslims in western countries to feel marginalised and persecuted because it suits their agenda. They actively want mistrust and suspicion between the communities of western countries. This is the ultimate aim of these kinds of attacks, and it works too.
As you said; this is about creating fear and over-reaction. It's about polarising opinion and creating division.
What they are doing is indeed militarily ineffective, but their aim with these attacks is not military, it's psychological. On that score, it works. Well, it works on an ever increasing number of people, anyway. You see it in the attitudes of many who now look upon ordinary Muslims with suspicion, mistrust, and in some cases, open hostility. We won't win against this disgusting, stone-age ideology unless we all pull together. Their aim is to divide. Lets not give in to them by doing exactly what they want us to do.
Like you say; after attacks such as this, the population pretty much carry on living as they did the day before ... but with each incident attitudes often change and harden. Again, this is exactly what they want. It's mutual tolerance, understanding, acceptance and peaceful co-existence which they are looking to undermine.
