London III: Political Islam vs. Africa/Global Warming

Having acknowledged right away the media brilliance of the London attacks – given world media focus on the G-8 Gleneagles summit – let’s also take a moment to observe the POLITICS of this coerced shift in global attention.

As you undoubtedly remember, the run-up to the G-8 meetings were dominated by two topics:

first and foremost, Africa, with the Live 8 concerts as the dominant “civil society” aspect of Blair’s campaign to shore up his fragile domestic coalition by shifting at least some attention away from Iraq;

and global warming, about which Blair and the others had prepared a document they were going to force Bush to sign.

With the London bombings, of course, global attention has now gone completely off these topics.

which indicates the extent to which political Islam has NO interest in any issues OTHER THAN their own “faith-based” agenda,

and no interest in connecting with any group OTHER THAN militant Islamists.

In short, the London bombings represent a huge “fuck you” by political Islam to both Africa and global warming …

something people all over the world should think about when they reflect on what political Islam – and its American counterpart, the corporate / Christian right – represent …