Left-wing extremists terrorise customers at London restaurant

[abaris]

Of course I also think that Islamic terrorism is right-wing terrorism to a certain degree.

Now it is. 40, 30 years ago, it was left-wing. They were in league with the European extreme left terrorist groups and in many cases sponsored by the soviet block. Religion back then was mainly window dressing. One of the most glaring examples was the hijacking of the Landshut back in '77. I was still a child back then, but looking back, the differences between now and then are obvious. Most obvious in the nature of the actual attacks, which weren't aimed at killing as many as possible at the cost of one's own life, but to blackmail opposing parties to do one's bidding. It was that way with Munich 1972 and it stayed that way all through the 70ies and early 80ies.

The turn to religiously motivated terror started with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the ensuing sponsoring of religious extremists by the West. I was too young back then to look beyond the media coverage of the galant freedom fighters against the big red dog. But this was actually the start of what we observe now. Well funded and well trained religious extremists ready to take their message out into the world. What many forget is that Afghanistan was an international conflict with fighters from all regions of the middle East flocking to take part.

Real left wing terrorism? I would be hard pressed to name even one instance where it still exists. The extreme left these days is made up of small splinters of sad losers throwing rocks at some demo or doing property damage. The right on the other hand, and you're absolutely right in counting Islamists among them, is very much alive an kicking.

The recent attack in Munich has pretty much dissapeared from the headlines, but it turns out that the attacker was not only proud of sharing his birthday with Hitler, the attack was also aimed at immigrants. And so the anniversary of the Brejvik attack isn't a coincidence at all, since that guy was studying previous attacks by his brethren in spirit.