The amazing thing about all this resurgent Jihadist activity is that the last is the most ominous. Not their refusal to stand, but judge allowing them to get away with it. That is nothing less than abject surrender to the barbarians. In a more civilised age, such defiance would have been met with this simple paraphrasing of Sir Charles James Napier:
It is your custom not to show respect to an infidel court of law. Very well. It is our custom in England that when defendants fail to rise to find them in contempt of court and throw them in jail. You may follow your custom and we will follow ours.
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