{"id":1867,"date":"2006-08-22T22:21:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T02:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2006-08-22T22:21:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T02:21:02","slug":"suicide-of-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/suicide-of-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide of the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=MTI2ZTRmYjg1OTA2ZjM1NGFhMDFjMDQ3ODJmYzA2MWE=\">National Review Online<\/a> Melanie Phillips August 18, 2006<\/p>\n<p>When America was attacked on 9\/11 by Islamic jihadis, it was said that this was a doomsday wake-up call for the West. Within a short while, however, much of Britain decided that 9\/11 was actually America\u2019s fault and that Israel was at the core of the problem. <\/p>\n<p>When Britain was attacked last year on 7\/7 by Islamic jihadis, it was said that this was a doomsday wake-up call for the U.K. Within a short time, however, much of the country decided that it was Britain\u2019s own fault on account of \u201cIslamophobia\u201d and the war in Iraq. <\/p>\n<p>Now 25 British Muslims have been arrested for an alleged plot to blast up to ten trans-Atlantic airliners out of the sky. This vast alleged conspiracy, thought to encompass many dozens more plotters from Germany to Pakistan, bears all the monstrous hallmarks of a classic al Qaeda operation. In addition, security sources say that dozens more al Qaeda-linked terrorist cells are at large in the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>From the evidence of one opinion poll this week, the British public has at least woken up to the fact that we are in the throes of a world war. Not so, however, the British establishment and chattering classes. Denial is no longer a river in Egypt but a British pathology.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=MTI2ZTRmYjg1OTA2ZjM1NGFhMDFjMDQ3ODJmYzA2MWE=\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Review Online Melanie Phillips August 18, 2006 When America was attacked on 9\/11 by Islamic jihadis, it was said that this was a doomsday wake-up call for the West. Within a short while, however, much of Britain decided that 9\/11 was actually America\u2019s fault and that Israel was at the core of the problem. &#8230; <a title=\"Suicide of the West\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/suicide-of-the-west\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Suicide of the West\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}