I believe the police were completely justified in shooting him dead. They were confronted with extraordinary circumstances and responded with extraordinary force.
Given the fact that in the last two weeks eight people either blew themselves up or attempted to blow themselves up, and then this guy goes running through the train station wearing a heavy coat in the middle of summer... I would have pulled the trigger myself without hesitation.
The Moslem world likes to say that the west brought these terrorist attacks on ourselves… well… by their actively supporting terrorists financially and materially, and passively supporting terrorism through inaction, Moslems have brought themselves under extreme suspicion.
The simple reality of the matter is that it is impossible for terrorist organizations to function without the surrounding community being aware of it. There is too much activity and movement of people and equipment to go unnoticed. Sure, they may not be hauling bombs around in plain site, but there is a lot of activity in places where it should not be and this calls attention to itself. I am in the habit of paying attention to what is going on in my neighborhood and when I notice changes in the patterns people follow, I notice it. When I see people go places and doing things that are different from what everyone else is doing, I notice it.
When I was a kid there was a house next to ours and a new family moved in. It did not take very long for us to notice the traffic of people going in and out of the house all hours of the day and night. It also did not take very long for us to conclude that it was a crack house – and called the police to report it and shut it down.
There was also another house down the road that was abandoned. It didn’t take very long for us to notice that every now and then some teens would sneak in and then come back out after a few hours. It also didn’t take very long for us to realize that they were sneaking in there to smoke pot.
The same applies to any organized activity – legal or illegal. The surrounding community ALWAYS notices and by not reporting such activities the Moslem community is passively supporting terrorism through inaction.
