By Andrew L. Jaffee

Can there be any question of the deep hatred Islamists bare towards Jews? On Wednesday, Islamist terrorists went on a rampage in Mumbai, India, killing at least 144, wounding approximately 300, and taking hostages. Today, as the standoff between Indian security forces and Islamists continued to unfold, it was revealed that the terrorists killed all their Jewish captives:

In Mumbai, Indian commandos who stormed the city’s Jewish centre have found five dead hostages. Initial reports say that three of the terrorists holding them hostage were also killed. All the dead hostages are reported to be Israeli nationals. …

But the carnage wasn’t limited to Jews:

… Earlier in the day, Indian commandos freed 140 guests trapped in the Trident-Oberoi hotel. In another hotel, the Taj Mahal, a terrorist is still holed up and reportedly holding two hostages. The commandos say that in both hotels they saw the bodies of dozens of guests who had been shot dead.

The official death toll from Wednesday’s terrorist attacks now stands at 130, with more than 300 people injured. Among the dead are at least 11 foreigners, four of them German. …

How much carnage is enough to convince the majority of the world’s decent people that Islamism must be stopped, just as fascism and communism, two similar radical utopian ideologies, were defeated? How many vicious attacks have the Islamists wrought — 9/11, Madrid 3/11, Bali, Beslan, Iraqi Shiite and Sunni Muslims killing each other (30,000 - 50,000), the Amman bombing, etc? Do we continue to fight a half-hearted, tactical battle, putting out small fires here and there, or do we respond to Islamism with a massive, strategic assault and terminate this twisted ideology and its adherents once and for all? Remember what it took to defeat the German and Japanese fascists of WWII? It wasn’t pretty, but it was decisive.

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Related: Extremists, India, Islam, Philosophy / Ideology, Terrorist Groups, War Against Islamo-fascism

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