Don’t really know what to make of this. Most of it is banal and predictable but I felt I should post it anyway
Category Archives: Sweden
Sweden: How much more commie can you get than this?
Video on the terror plot on Denmark’s Jelands Posten
Thanks to KitmanTV for this one
Scandinavian authorities claim this is the most serious plot yet
Swedes arrested over ‘Muhammad cartoon plot’
Terror plot most serious yet in Denmark-minister
Published: 29 Dec 10 14:09 CET The Local.se
Updated: 29 Dec 10 14:39 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/31144/20101229/
Three Swedes were among five people arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of preparing to commit a terrorist act in Denmark, the Swedish police have confirmed.
- US tightens security at Stockholm embassy (21 Dec 10)
- Swedish fatwa council condemns bomb attack (20 Dec 10)
- Bomber’s explosives identified with FBI help (16 Dec 10)
Four of the suspects were arrested in Denmark and one in Sweden, with four resident in Sweden, and three of them Swedish citizens, according to a statement from the Swedish Security Service (Säpo).
“A serious terror crime in Denmark has been prevented by efficient and close cooperation between (Danish security service) PET and the Security Service,” said Anders Danielsson at the Security Service in the statement. Continue Reading →
Contest? What will happen to Sweden’s ice pig.
I am toying with the idea of having a sort of informal contest to predict what will happen and when to this sculpture. Watch the video and I’ll detail below…
I don’t really know what to do with this one except I welcome peoples predictions as to what they estimate the Islamic reaction to this sculpture will be. Personally I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure there will be one.
University under fire as a ‘hotbed of extremism’
h/t Don
EXCLUSIVE BY LUI STRACCIA writing for Luton Dunstable
Activists handing out leaflets outside the Luton campus of the University of Bedfordshire in October 2009
Muslim extremists were trying to recruit students outside the University of Bedfordshire more than a year ago – but police were powerless to stop them.
On Monday (December 13) it emerged that last weekend’s Stockholm suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly had graduated with a BSc in sports therapy from the University of Luton.
Abdulwahab, 28, lived in Argyll Avenue, Luton, and was enrolled between 2001 and 2004, and British security services are trying to establish whether he was radicalised while he studied there.
This week fears have surfaced that the institution – now known as University of Bedfordshire – is a ‘hotbed’ for extremists and would-be terrorists.
While the university this week strenuously denied any cases of extremist activity ever having taken place on its campus, our sister paper Luton & Dunstable Express published a story in October 2009 revealing Muslim radicals were trying to recruit students outside its main entrance during Freshers’ Week.
Around 15 extremists, some of whom had branded soldiers ‘baby-killers’ and spat at them during the Royal Anglian Regiment’s homecoming parade in Luton town centre in March that year, set up two stalls outside the campus in Park Street and handed out leaflets, some of which showed a placard depicting former US President George Bush below a headline ‘Terrorist Murderer’.
In the House of Commons on Wednesday (December 16), Prime Minister David Cameron said: “If we are frank on both sides of the House, we have not done enough to deal with the promotion of extremist Islamism in our own country.
“Whether it is making sure that imams coming over to this country can speak English properly, or whether it is making sure that we de-radicalise our universities, we have to take a range of further steps, and I am going to be working hard to make sure that we do.”
The university of Bedfordshire insists there has never been a case of extremism on its campus.
But our sister paper Luton & Dunstable Express’s story in October 2009 about radicals operating outside its Park Street main entrance during Freshers’ Week shows they have tried to recruit its students in the past.
Mona Thwany at her graduation, third from left, and husband Taimour Abdulwahab, second from left, Mona’s Mother Mihaela, and father Abdul Thwany. Photo credit: Daily Mail
Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly lived in Argyll Avenue, Luton, and attended the university between 2001 and 2004. Continue Reading →
Daniel Arrospide’s article from Islam in Europe
Translated by Islam in Europe, an interview with the Swedish politician in the video posted a couple of days ago here on Vlad
Daniel Arrospide’s article (SE):
What I saw at the mosque at the Medborgarplatsen scares me
It is with great sadness that I write this article. Now, when Sweden has become the target for its first terrorist attack, is the time for politicians to know the consequences of not addressing integration policy.
For half a year I infiltrated the mosque at Medborgarplatsen-Stockholm, and what I found there really scared me. The government’s and parliament’s unwillingness to rehabilitate the Million Programme [ed: low-cost housing projects]has led to militant Muslims having a recruiting base in Sweden. It’s very easy for them to recruit somebody who is unemployed, doesn’t know the language and lives in a poor neighborhood. They promise to give them a lot of family to their family if they die in the name of Allah.
The statement from the Imam and the Swedish Islamic Association is just a game for the gallery. They have completely lost control over the ‘communities’ in Sweden. The fact is that people from the al-Qaeda terrorist network are recruiting Swedish Muslims of all ages on an on-going basis for the holy war of Jihad.
The imam knows precisely who they are and could have easily contacted SÄPO, but chose not to do this. I could never understand why, despite my attempt to find out. I’m not claiming that he indirectly supported this, but sometimes I wondered..
I had went to the mosque for almost six months, and there I had contact with somebody who called himself “Samir”. I don’t know if that was his real name. In any case he started speaking Arabic with me, but I told him that my Arabic wasn’t so good. He asked me why and I told him that my parent’s wanted to be Swedish and therefore didn’t teach me Arabic. I asked ‘Samir’ where he lived, and was told Rinkeby. We continued talking about the USA, the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. I got the impression that he wanted to do something about it. After a while he asked me if I wanted to be ‘active’, in that case I could come home with him to Rinkeby and talk with somebody who would go down. They will pay you very well. I said no and then he stopped talking to me. He threatened to kill me if I went to the police and talked. I stopped going to the mosque after the conversation I had with ‘Samir’. Continue Reading →
More on the Swedish politician who infiltrated a mosque in Stockholm
It would appear that this man is not being taken very seriously in his native Sweden but he is doing his best to get the word out however he can.
Here is a link to a google translation of a website originally in Swedish with some more details about what takes place at this Stockholm mosque.
I think Sweden may have problems a little larger than just Islam when this is ignored.
Below, the video I posted yesterday about this.
Swedish Politician infiltrates large mosque in Stockholm
This is an important clip, and a short one.
Watch and spread please
Lutherin attacked the Swedes. Michael Coren on Islamic terror
Mosque did not inform police of Sweden bomber’s radical views
From #4 NEWS
The Luton mosque where Swedish suicide bomber Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly worshipped did not tell police about his radical views, despite expelling him from the centre, Channel 4 News has learned.
Chairman of Luton Islamic Centre, Qadeer Baksh kicked out al-Abdaly, 28, who is suspected of blowing himself up on a busy shopping street in Stockholm on Saturday, around three years ago, after he presented radical interpretations of the Koran.
But Mr Baksh, who is known as a moderate Muslim and an anti-extremist figurehead in the community, said that he did not inform the police or Mi5, because he did not believe that al-Abdaly was capable of terrorist acts.
He said: “It was the general public, worshippers, that brought it to the committee’s attention that there was someone in here teaching something that is alien to Islam – extremist views.
“So I went and I faced him. I challenged his thoughts and his ideas and we got into a theological debate.
“This continued for a few days but every time I left him, I believed that he was now content with my interpretation, my explanation, and that he was misguided.”
Mr Baksh said he went away, only to hear later from the community that al-Abdaly had been trying to spread more extremist views among them. Continue Reading →
Security camera footage of the actual detonation with translation of the warning sent 10 mins before
The name and photo of the dead suicide bomber in Sweden
There is much speculation on the web that the man who was the suicide bomber not in the car, was the man identified here: http://snaphanen.dk/2010/12/12/jihadisten-i-stockholm-taimour-al-abdaly/
Gates of Vienna also has some on this fellow in English. I am not saying it is him, just that people are speculating that this is the man. The reasons for that speculation is available at Gates.
Pat Condell on Islam in Sweden
I have had this video on Vlad some time ago when Mr. Condell first made it. Watch it again in the context of today’s terrorist attack on Stockholm.
Muslims warned the Swedes 10 minutes before the explosions…
Sweden: Police Examine Contents Of Bomber’s Bag
December 11, 2010
Swedish police have identified the contents of the bag carried by the suspected suicide bomber involved in the Dec. 11 bombings in Stockholm, Swedish daily Aftonbladet reported. Police have confirmed the backpack contained spikes, nails and also an unidentified substance. The police examined the contents of the bag using a robot. The man had strapped six pipe bombs to his body, only one of which exploded. Witnesses said the man shouted something in a language believed to be Arabic before detonating the explosives, according to the report.
More from Gates of Vienna and KitmanTV on the Swedish Christmas attack
UPDATE: Actual footage of the explosions
UPDATE: From STRATFOR:
December 11, 2010
Swedish news agency TT received an email about 10 minutes before the Stockholm explosions, SVD.se reported Dec. 11. In the message, also addressed to the Swedish Security Service (SAPO), a man refers to Sweden and the Swedish people and their silence on Lars Vilks paintings and Swedish soldiers in Afghanistan, saying that “now it is your children, daughters and sisters that die same as our brothers and sisters and children who are dying.” It says the blast is an act of jihad. He ends the message with another call to action. SAPO declined to confirm or comment on the content email, which reportedly contains audio files in Swedish and Arabic.
UPDATE 6:00 PM EST
Here is the CTV footage of it.
Just in case anyone thought just maybe it was done by disgruntled Buddhists or radical Catholic nuns…
Here is hte link to the translation I used:
Here is the link to the story in Swedish and below, a screen cap of the English translation I used.
About 10 minutes before the explosions an e-mail was sent to TT, and also to the Swedish secret services (Säpo), where a man adresses “Sweden and the Swedish people”. He refers to the Swedish silence concerning Lars Vilks’ paintings, the Swedish soldiers in Afghanistan and says that “now your children, daughters and sisters will die as our brothers and sisters and children are dying”. – Our actions will speak for themselves. As long as you continue to wage your war against Islam and insulting the prophet and your stupid support of the pig Vilks, says the man. – Whereupon he encourages all Muslims in Sweden to “stop sucking up and debasing yourselves”. He ends the message with another exhortation to “all the mujahedin in Europe and Sweden”: – Now is the time to attack, do not wait any longer. Come forward with whatever you have, even if it’s just a knife and I know you have more than just knives. Do not fear anyone, do not fear jail, do not fear death. – It is not clear from the audio files if the man speaking belongs to any organization. But he states that he has been in the Middle East and asks his family to forgive him for having lied to them. – I never went to the Middle East to work or make money, I went there for jihad, he says. – Säpo has not confirmed the contents to TT or confirmed having received the mail, which contains sound files where both Swedish and Arabic are spoken. TT has not been able to confirm that the mail is related to the explosion.
This is the first time anyone has blown himself up in Sweden, ever. To think that this is a completely random act is just silly. And now we have a jihadist e-mail, sent 10 minutes before this completely unique explosion.
The car was registered to an Abdul T. http://politisktinkorrekt.info/2010/12/11/bil-exploderade-i-stockholms-city-en-dod/
Witnesses say the man shouted in Arabic before he died.