In an ongoing effort to fulfill their Islamic credo (submit, convert or die), Muslim radicals launched a coordinated attack in southern Russia killing dozens of people, fortunately a large number of those killed were the terrorists themselves. According to reports, the terror goons were also holding hostages, after their coordinated attacks on police stations, government offices and an airport. While the Chechens may once have had legitimate grievances against the Russian Federation, all such legitimacy has long since vanished. Today, the Chechens are nothing more than Islamic extremists, advancing a cause of death and destruction. They have left their calling card all across Russia, including the school siege last fall and an attack on a Moscow theater. Unfortunately for the average Russian citizen, the government is almost as savage as the terrorists. In their many efforts to fight terrorists or free hostages, the heavy-handed tactics of Russia’s security forces have resulted in even more civilian deaths. This incident, however, highlights one unmistakable reality. Islamic terror is global and it is not linked to a single country or individual, it is multifaceted and unrelenting, brutal in its savagery and merciless in its disregard for human life. There can be no accommodating these killers, whether they surface in Indonesia, India, Kenya, Sudan, Russia, Afghanistan, Thailand, China, the Netherlands, Britain or the United States.
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