I had heard about this incident, but not seen it in print until now. I guess the blade will have to be severing some people's head from their shoulders before they accept that there is a connection.

Brian Paddick, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, slapped down a questioner who had the temerity to mention Islamic terrorism on Thursday. “As far as I am concerned, Islam and terrorists are two words which do not go together,” he said.

Lenin talked about folks who were "useful idiots." Folks who refuse to accept that there is a connection fon't even qualify as useful -- and instead act as if the terrorists we are fighting lack any common unifying characteristics (like being young Muslim men). These are the sort of folks who still insist on random checks of passengers and reject profiling.

Columnist Martin Samuel has this wonderfully British observation about Paddick and his ilk, folks who are so concerned about PR and PC that they refuse to act on the evidence right before their eyes.

This is what we are up against, at home and abroad. Faced with the Spanish Inquisition, Paddick would find no link to Catholicism and randomly pull in a couple of Huguenots who happened to be passing. Just in case.

Read all of Samuel's column -- it is worth the time.

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