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by Peter Martino
• October 11, 2014 at 5:00 am
If
trains and buss are no longer safe places for soldiers on their way to
work, surely they are no longer safe for ordinary citizens either.
"The
best thing you can do is to make an effort to kill any infidel, French,
American, or any of their allies... Smash his head with a rock, slaughter
him with a knife, run him over with a car throw him from a high place,
choke him or poison him." — Mohammed al-Adnani, ISIS spokesman,
September 2014.
Instead
of telling their soldiers to hide themselves, Western governments should
tell their soldiers to show themselves to make clear to the jihadists,
and to frightened citizens, that we in the West are not afraid of
terrorists. On the contrary, we will root them out and come down on them
with all our military might.
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Brave today, cream puffs tomorrow? Three Australian
Navy sailors receive a Group Citation for Bravery, May 10, 2012. (Image
source: Royal Australian Navy)
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Earlier this week, Timon Dias wrote on these pages that the Dutch
authorities have ordered Dutch soldiers not to wear their uniforms when
they are using public transport on their way to the barracks. But the
Dutch are not the only cowards in the West. Unfortunately, the
Netherlands is not the only country that, for fear of attacks by Muslim
extremists, has advised its military to no longer wear their uniforms in
public. Apparently, Australia, Belgium, Britain and France have done the
same.
As Dias wrote, the order in the Netherlands was a response to a
threat by a Dutch jihadist known as Muhajiri Shaam, who is currently
fighting in Syria with al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda. After the
Netherlands announced that Dutch F-16s would participate in the allied
offensive against ISIS in Iraq, Shaam tweeted that the Dutch people had
now become a target for jihadists.
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