The left-leaning UK Independent reports.
Excerpt:
Terrorism returned to the streets of Britain yesterday when a soldier was murdered by two suspected Islamists who attempted to behead and disembowel him as he left a barracks, in the first deadly attack since the 2005 London bombings.
One of the suspected killers, who addressed an onlooker who had a camera, said the pair had carried out the attack “because David Cameron, [the] British government sent troops in Arabic country”.
As pedestrians stood close by the armed men, he went on: “We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you,” according to footage obtained by ITV News .
The Independent understands the dead soldier – who was wearing a Help for Heroes T-shirt – was a member of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, which is currently based overseas. He was ambushed by the men as he left the base in Woolwich, south-east London, who attacked him and then dragged his body into the middle of the road to pose for photographs while standing over him waving a cleaver and a gun, according to witnesses.
[…]One witness, identified only as James, said he and his partner saw two black men attack a young man aged about 20 with kitchen knives like he was “a piece of meat”.
“They were hacking at this poor guy, literally,” he told LBC Radio, adding that a group of brave women tried to shield the soldier from the two men.
“They were hacking at him, chopping him, cutting him. These two guys were crazed. They were just animals. They dragged him from the pavement and dumped his body in the middle of the road and left his body there.”
More politically incorrect details here from Sky News. (H/T The Gateway Pundit)
Excerpt:
Two attackers armed with meat cleavers filmed their deadly assault on a man in London, according to Sky sources.
A man reported to be a serving soldier died and two people have been shot in Woolwich, after what Sky sources understand is being treated as a terrorist attack.
Senior Whitehall sources said the two attackers asked passers-by to film them, and they shouted “Allahu Akbar” (Allah is great).
In footage that has emerged, one of the attackers wields a bloodied meat cleaver and says: “We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you.”
The black man, dressed in a grey hooded jacket and black woolly hat, apologises to members of the public who witnessed the horrific scenes before making a number of political statements.
In the footage, he is heard to say: “We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
“I apologise that women have had to witness this today, but in our land our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe.
“Remove your government, they don’t care about you.”
Witnesses also described seeing the “crazed” Woolwich attackers “hacking” at their victim and posing for pictures before charging at police wielding meat cleavers.
Here’s a still shot of one the murderers at the scene:
If this happened in the United States, I have no doubt that the fools on the secular left would be blaming this on the Tea Party conservatives and evangelical Christians. I have no doubt that the Democrats in the Obama administration will look at the video and the still images of the murderer and come away thinking that a crackdown on evangelical Christians who are pro-life and believe in limited government is needed. In addition to going after Bible-believing Christians, they would probably want to double welfare payments for people who are in the country illegally.
One other point. A lot of very stupid secularists see stories like this and then have the view that there is something wrong with certainty and conviction in religion. There is nothing wrong with certainty and conviction in religion provided that the religion is not Islam. I have a friend who is a Christian who is very firm in her convictions and she carried groceries Wednesday to an atheist who was sick and on crutches. She is very convinced about the truth of her beliefs and acted on them. Being certain of your views and acting on them is fine as long as the views are rooted in truth.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
Not to belabor the point…. but just imagine if one of those British civilians had been armed with a handgun… Which is more effective: attempting to shield the man with your bodies, or stopping the assailants with potentially deadly force?
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While I completely agree with you, I think, had someone shot the guy, this would have become an “Islamaphobia” story and the defender would have been incarcerated.
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Someone did shoot the guy. A policeman.
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Yes, but the police who arrived on the scene initially were not armed They had to called for armed policemen to arrive and it took 23 minutes. #FAIL
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In the US the terrorists might have been taken down by armed passers by, but they’d probably have been armed themselves. More deaths overall.
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It’s probably a good thing that they didn’t have guns – they wouldn’t know how to use them and would just stare at them like an ape would stare at a computer – completely oblivious to what they were looking at. Most British men are women by now. (They have been totally feminized.)
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WorldGoneCrazy, is this an appropriate time to snark at ‘feminized’ British men? The victim was killed for being a soldier. I’ll wager he put his life on the line for his country in the line of duty. The men who killed him were British. Would that they were MORE feminized – it wasn’t shortage of testosterone that led them to kill another with machetes.
And finally, many are hailing the courage of the women who approached the killers afterwards and talked to them before the police arrived. “Better me than some children” said one of the ladies. I’d hope that you or I would show such courage. You do those ladies a disservice by using ‘feminized’ as an insult.
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That’s exactly what I was thinking about, J.W. At least in my state you have the legal right (never mind the moral obligation) to use deadly force in order to protect others if their life is being threatened.
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Another thing that many people can’t seem to understand is the difference between a person following their religion and a person doing things in spite of their religion.
For example, they blame the Crusades on Christians (even though killing people for believing a different religion is AGAINST the principles of Christianity). People who follow what Christianity teaches do not commit violence on innocent people. Yet they want to blame Christianity for any violence ever committed by anyone who claimed to be a Christian – even though those actions were against the teachings of Christianity.
At the same time, they ignore Muslims doing what the Quran actually tells them to do. It’s the Muslims who are acting according to what their religion teaches in being violent, and yet they don’t want to blame Islam for it.
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Wow, that’s a great explanation for the hypocrisy involved, Lindsay – thank you – I will use that argument for God’s Glory!
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YouTube already pulled the video down. With all the offensive content YouTube advertises to me when I get online, you’d think an offensive video that actually means something might get the green light. I guess not…
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‘Most British men are women by now. (They have been totally feminized.)’
Now that sounds like a thoughtful contribution.
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Thank you, Bemused!
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Any Winstorn Churchill wanna-bes in Parliament to rid the UK of this self-created radical Islam menace?
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The UK has generally turned its back on traditional male roles, like protecting, providing and leading on moral and spiritual issues as they’ve turned towards secularism and socialism. They struggle to recognize evil. Many of them would prefer to be dependent on government redistribution than work, and they are generally ignorant of spiritual issues and objective morality. They have largely abandoned William Wilberforce and Horatio Nelson for football and drinking with “the lads”. Their out-of-wedlock birth rate has skyrocketed as they slowly replace traditional male roles with welfare and government programs. This is not the place to look for people who have a worldview that grounds serious moral action. The welfare state that they’ve been growing for the last couple of decades have set them up with moral relativism, postmodernism, pacifism and sloth.
Take a look at what “Red” Ken Livingstone has achieved for them:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/londons-36bn-benefits-bill-is-bigger-than-the-uks-whole-defence-budget-8623674.html
And more broadly:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/68-million-living-in-uk-welfare-ghettos.21118832
And:
http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news/2013/05/jobless-outnumber-workers-in-some-british-neighbourhoods/
And I’d say that we are about a decade behind them on the road to serfdom.
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No real-life James Bond – Daniel Craig types, eh?
That’s too bad. Britain’s bollixed. Such a shame to see a country castrate themselves. Unfortunately, the U.S. is sawing away too. Bloody mess.
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Yes, like I said, we are about 10 years behind them. Our Debt-to-GDP ratio is worse than theirs.
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Britain’s SAS are pretty well respected worldwide, if you’re after real life James Bonds.
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They are the best counter-terrorism force in the world. I think I am just cranky when I talk like that.
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I read these guys had a … gasp….. gun? That’s not possible. Britain has a law against guns. Even most of the police don’t have guns. There must be some mistake.
Piers Morgan? Where are you? Tell me it can’t be true.
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