“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
From European Son
Something of a religious controversy had been brewing in the lead-up to the 911 commemorations. Former Deputy Mayor of New York Rudy Washington and some Christian groups were dismayed that Mayor Bloomberg had decided not to include clergy or prayers in the tenth anniversary ceremony. Christian clergy, they pointed out, had ministered to firefighters and police at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the attacks ten years ago.
“This is America, and to have a… continue reading!
From European Son
The BBC reported this week that Shaker Aamer, a “close associate” of Osama bin Laden, and the “remaining British detainee” at Guantanamo Bay prison, is on hunger strike. You might be surprised to learn, then, that the leader of the controversial anti-Islamist movement Tommy Robinson has also been on hunger strike for the past week, in a British prison. The mainstream media regularly reports on events and personalities of the EDL, and journalists and “anti-fascist” organizations also regularly scour its Facebook pages, looking for potential stories. They could hardly have… continue reading!
From European Son
The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has said that US intelligence officials believe the current al-Qaeda plot against the US has “serious teeth.”
IPT Executive Director Steven Emerson told Fox News recently that after the bin Laden assassination, Navy SEALs ”found a treasure-trove of potential attacks around the world, but [but that there was] definitely an emphasis on attacking… continue reading!
I can imagine the difficulty of trying to decide whether or not to inform a population about a potential terrorist attack. On the one hand, the chance of costs in lives and treasure from the panic that can ensue from the warning alone is guaranteed while the actual terrorist strike is not. Of course, the cost to a government who fails to inform the public about a threat that does come to pass (clearly there is a constant stream of threats to the US public from various sources) would be large enough to cost an election. Hell Bush paid a huge price based on the pure fiction that he A) knew it was going to happen or B) allowed the perpetrators to leave early and other fictitious nonsense. One can hear this calculous in the way this potential threat is presented.
JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) – Muslim youths hacked a Christian family of eight to death in Nigeria’s volatile Plateau state on Sunday, local officials said, continuing a week of violence that has pitted gangs from the two faiths against each other and civilians.
More than 40 people have been killed in the ethnically and religiously-mixed area since last Monday when Christian youths attacked some Muslims as they gathered to celebrate the end of Ramadan in the city of Jos, capital of Plateau state.
Plateau state spokesman Yiljap Abraham took journalists to the house in the village of Tatu, where the bodies of the eight victims from the latest attack were still lying on the bloodsoaked floor.
On Sunday morning, in another village in Plateau called Riyom, police found a bomb planted in a marketplace which had failed to go off because its battery had run flat, Sergeant Willford Egwu told journalists.
Plateau state, straddling the “Middle Belt” between Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north and largely Christian south, though normally peaceful, has sometimes been a flashpoint for tensions between the two faiths.
Unrest there is a new security issue for President Goodluck Jonathan, also coping with near-daily attacks in the northeast by Islamist sect Boko Haram, which authorities blame for an August 26 bombing of U.N. offices in Abuja that killed 23 people.
Suspected Boko Haram militants shot dead an outspoken Muslim cleric who had criticised the group, Lieutenant-Colonel Hassan Mohammed from Nigeria’s joint military task force told Reuters. The men shot him in a raid on his home on Sunday in Maiduguri, the city at the heart of the Boko Haram insurgency.
On Saturday at least four people including one soldier were killed in clashes between local youths and security forces in the town of Biu in the northeast near Maiduguri, a senior police officer told Reuters.
“The fracas broke out on Friday night when the youth ambushed one soldier and killed him close to the Army Barracks in retaliation to the killing of a woman and the arrest of four Islamic clerics,” the source said.
From European Son
In 2007, MI5 chief Jonathan Evans reported that his agency estimated there to be at least 2,000 terror suspects in Britain — up 400 on the previous year. It would be foolish to blame Evans, who had taken over the position only in April. And it would be unfair to lay the blame for the rise of Islamic extremism on the MI5. It is the “elite” culture of political correctness and cultural relativism that has made tackling Islamist terrorism and its ideology so difficult. We know by now that much of the UK Government, and much of the media, has habitually, even pathologically, turned a blind eye to extremism, and has even worked with ideological extremists. In some cases this was occurring prior to 9/11. Still, no matter how used to political correctness we may be, the recent comments by former MI5 chief Baroness Manningham-Buller must come as… continue reading.
By Julia Jüttner, Solingen
A mother can’t be fooled, and a mother notices when her child goes astray, says Marlies B. That’s why she called the state authorities in October 2010 and asked if she needed to be worried about her son.
Her son Robert had changed. He’d converted to Islam, forsaken pork and alcohol, and now he wore a knit wool cap and wandered the city of Solingen, northeast of Cologne, in floor-length garments. Marlies B. says she’d never seen him this way. People asked her about it, and it was embarrassing. It frightened her.
At the end of July — after a period when she couldn’t reach him, either on his cell phone or at his apartment — she printed out a statement from his bank account. (Robert had given her notarized power of attorney years before.) She noticed a flight booked for €447 ($647), and “all of my alarm bells went off,” she says. She drove to a national-security office in Wuppertal.
“You’re son is doing well,” an official told her, asking her to take a seat in the hall. Marlies B. had an uneasy feeling. A mother knows, she says. Two other officials came upstairs. They had just searched Robert’s apartment, and they told her that her son had been in a London prison since July 15. Continue Reading →
By Muhanad Mohammed | Reuters – 20 hrs ago
A man inspects bloodstained copies of the Koran a day after a blast occurred inside …
Residents inspect the site of a blast inside Umm al-Qura mosque in Baghdad’s Ghazaliya …BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber posing as a beggar detonated his explosives inside a major Baghdad Sunni mosque on Sunday, killing at least 24 people, including an Iraqi lawmaker, just as they finished evening prayers, hospital and local officials said.
The bomber wearing a cast on his arm blew himself up in the main hall of the Umm al-Qura mosque, an important Sunni religious site in Baghdad and one frequented by top Iraqi Sunni leaders in the capital’s western Ghazaliya district. Continue Reading →
From European Son
Channel 4 will commemorate the 9/11 attacks on the USA by showing a “mix” of programs, including Chris Morris’s comedy movie Four Lions about British Islamist terrorists.
The announcement was made at the Edinburgh Television Festival by former BBC1 controller and current Channel 4 chief creative officer Jay Hunt. Ms. Hunt said that, despite a request by Morris, it would not be shown on the day, but that it would be shown close to that time, “ because it speaks to that issue.” Hunt said, ”I think we should absolutely continue to push those… continue reading!
I very much look forward to the comments on this.
By Andrew Hough
8:00AM BST 09 Jun 2010
The 36 year-old falsely claimed he was abducted at knifepoint by racist thugs from the far-right wing political party after being subjected to hate mail and an arson attack, Chelmsford Crown Court was told.
He had told police he had feared for his life when he was kidnapped in broad daylight from his home in Loughton, Essex on August 24 last year and bundled into a car, it was claimed.
Ramjanally then claimed he was driven to nearby Epping Forest where he was threatened and warned to stop holding prayer sessions he had organised.
But he was caught out lying after detectives viewed CTTV footage from secret cameras installed to protect him after his previous claims that he was being targeted by racist opponents, prosecutors said.
The court heard that at the time of his alleged abduction he was actually “wandering around Homebase”. Continue Reading →
Yep Christianity and Islam are basically the same thing. Christianity celebrates love with mistletoe while Islam celebrates hatred with tow missiles.
Al Qaeda in Iraq announced a “100 attack” campaign across the country during Ramadan as revenge for the deaths of Osama bin Laden and other senior leaders, Xinhua reported Aug. 20.
“More than 2000 policemen and several military armored vehicles were stationed around security premises in North Sinai’s Arish city,” the sources said.
“The security deployment is for defense purposes only,” said Abdel Wahad Mabrouk, the governor of North Sinai. “We are not chasing anyone in Sinai’s mountains,” Mabrouk added, referring to the peninsula’s caves, which have been traditionally used as special hideouts for Bedouin smugglers and Islamist militants.
On Thursday, the American television station CNN reported that Egyptian authorities were preparing to launch an operation against Al-Qaeda cells that had recently been established in Sinai. Continue Reading →
Another example of how selective enforcement is the tool of modern totalitarianism. That governments pass harsh laws meant to lull the people into a false sense of security, by seeming to trade liberty for safety, then only enforcing the laws against the majority culture.
British people, if you are not angry yet, you really should be.
This is a strange story from the Bury Times and it raises an interesting point that we will come to later.
According to the report that you can read here, some enricher by the name of Hassan Hussain was found lying in the street with a gunshot wound to his foot and taken to hospital for treatment.
On being questioned by the police, Hussain informed them that he had been accosted by people wearing balaclavas, one of whom then shot him. The police quickly launched a major manhunt – they usually do when one of the enrichers has been attacked – and also reassured the local (more enrichers no doubt) community that they were treating the shooting seriously. How else are you supposed to treat a shooting?
However all was not what it seemed. Because forensic experts discovered that the gun that wounded the enricher had been fired at extremely close range and the truth was, that Hussain had deliberately shot himself in the foot – why not the head I asked myself? But it was his choice and he chose his foot to shoot – mores the pity.
Police then charged Hussain with wasting police time. A charge to which the enricher pleaded guilty to at the Bury Magistrates Court where he was sentenced to a paltry 18 weeks. By the time I finish typing this article, he will probably have been released for good behaviour.
Now there are actually a couple of points to be made here. Given that section 287 of the Criminal Justice act states that the minimum sentence for possessing illegal firearms are as follows:
More here at the original news site: