Meanwhile, the ideological accomplices and allies of these violent jihadists have intimidated and deceived Western authorities and media into thinking that to investigate the ideology behind these murders, and formulate strategies to resist it, is as bad or worse than the murders themselves.
“Pakistan police battle militants after deadly airport raid,” from al Arabiya, December 16 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Police battled militants armed with automatic weapons, grenades and mortars in northwest Pakistan’s Peshawar on Sunday, a day after a deadly Taliban raid on the city’s airport.
Fierce firing broke out after officers acting on an intelligence report tried to storm a house near the airport, where a suicide and rocket attack on Saturday evening killed five civilians and the five attackers and wounded 50 other people….
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location that the group would continue to target the airport.
“Our target was jet fighter plans and gunship helicopters and soon we will target them again,” he said….
Pakistan says more than 35,000 people have been killed as a result of terrorism in the country since the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Its forces have for years been battling homegrown militants in the northwest.