How do we deal with this tactical twist? And what does it mean?

MIREILLE, who was born in Belgium to a white, middle-class Christian family, blew herself to pieces last month in a suicide attack against American troops near Baghdad.

In one of the most extraordinary tales of Islamic radicalisation, she is thought to be the first white Western woman to carry out a suicide bombing.

Belgian investigators, who arrested 14 people associated with her, are keeping the 38-year-old womanÂ’s true identity secret, but details have started to emerge. She was from the southern Belgian town of Charleroi, married to a Moroccan and converted to an extreme form of Islam.

“This is how she came into contact with the organisation which allowed her to become a fighter for jihad,” said Glenn Audenaert, the federal police director. Her Belgian documents show that she travelled with her husband to Iraq. On November 9 she blew herself up in a car bomb attack on a US military convoy, killing — according to conflicting reports — either only herself, or six people. Her Belgian passport was near by. Her husband was killed by American troops in a separate incident.

Security sources said that they knew of no other western European women suicide bombers. Al-Qaeda recently appealed for white converts to become suicide bombers, because it was easier for them to travel and evade detection before carrying out their attacks.

The enemy today is not just "Middle Eastern men". Now it is women, and individuals of European descent. Short of annihilating Islam as a cancer among us, destroying it root and branch, how do we combat the Islamist enemy without destroying our most preciouis liberties? Must we recognize Islam an exception to our pincipled support of religious liberty that liberty might survive? Or do we travel the path of pure principle, even if the cost of our lives or our liberties if the enemy is successful?

Sadly, I do not know. How do we balance the lives of many against the liberty of our enemy?

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