Collective Retribution
Reader comment on item: The Growing Threat from Female Suicide Bombers

Submitted by Ed Zuiderwijk, Apr 3, 2010 10:12

The conclusion that security forces will draw is that if you take out an islamic terrorist, you also go after his wife or wives. And if that's not effective then after the rest of the family, until the message gets through that making choices has consequences.

It appears that the Israeli policy of collective retribution is right after all, however unpallatable.

The first government which actually implements such tactics, likely Russia, will, predictably, face a torrent of criticism, not least from Muslim countries. The proper way to counter that is by pointing out that, according to the mohammedan faith, everything that happens does so because it is the will of Allah. And one can't disagree with his will, can one?

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