Chanting Allahu Akbar, they wreak destruction in Athens

ibloga ^ | Dec 9, 2008

[Righting]

Chanting Allahu Akbar, they wreak destruction in Athens

From Associated Press:

ATHENS, Greece – Gangs of youths smashed their way through central Athens, Thessaloniki and other Greek cities into the early hours Tuesday, torching stores, buildings and cars in a third day of mayhem after the fatal police shooting of a teenager.

In the country's worst rioting in decades, dozens of shops, banks and luxury hotels had their windows smashed as youths fought running battles with riot police. Black smoke rose above the city center, mingling with clouds of tear gas. Broken glass littered the streets.

Hundreds of high school and university students joined self-styled anarchists in throwing everything from fruit and coins to rocks and Molotov cocktails at police and attacked police stations throughout the day. Police said some rioters were armed with crossbows, knives and swords.

"Cops! Pigs! Murderers!" protesters screamed at riot police.

Police said early Tuesday that 89 people had been arrested in Athensfor attacking police officers, vandalism and looting and 79 more were being questioned about possible involvement in the rioting. The fire service said it responded to more than 200 blazes in central Athens on Monday, about half of them in buildings and the rest in cars and trash bins used as barricades.

Greece suffers under wave of asylum seeker caused violence

Greek police have clashed with hundreds of migrants waiting to submit asylum applications in Athens.
A riot broke out after one would be refugee plunged into a canal in exactly the same place where another asylum seeker was killed earlier this year.
Community leaders and politicians are warning that Athens inner city is at risk of becoming a racial battleground and are appealing for European assistance to defuse rising tension.
This year, Greece, has attracted a record 80 thousand illegal immigrants, but has been criticized by Europe for failing to help asylum seekers.
From Athens, Malcolm Brabant

Watch the video and hear the chants of Islamic Jihad:

http://www.youtube.com/v/tFuEgnRuhD8&hl=en&fs=1

[gwilhelm56]

**Chanting Allahu Akbar, they wreak destruction in Athens**

Kinda funny .. in all the radio news reports..ALL DAY, I never heard the chanting part.

Just like my friend, robbed at Gunpoint. Newspaper article took 8 paragraphs to note the fact that the perps were “not white” ...

We’re SO SCREWED!!

[ducdriver]

These youths are such cutups. Allah Fubar.

[sageb1]

From prior reports I thought they were anarchists. Figgers.

[smokingfrog]

Cops don’t seem to be doing much. They should be shooting the people throwing the Molotov cocktails. Fire fighters can’t even do their job.

[Righting]

They are afraid to be looked upon as “oppressors” it’s quite scary how the police GET all the damage.

[Righting]

From prior reports I thought they were anarchists. Figgers.

That too, there are 2 groups taking advantage of the situation.

[Dianna]

That too, there are 2 groups taking advantage of the situation.

Are these the same riots where communists were blamed a few days ago? I can't recall the location of all the riots nowadays. I do remember reading about torched cars and was surprised to hear that they were an anarchist group.

[Jack Black]

This is a paste up job on a blog. I’m not saying the protesters are NOT muslims, but the video has nothing to do with the current riots. The “people shouting Allah Akbar” are from a protest much earlier in the year.

It would be nice to have real reporting. In the case the blogger-with-an-agenda is doing a worse-than-MSM job of reporting.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Islamic anarchists. The most dangerous type of anarchist.

The want to convert the world to Islam but can’t get together to figure out how to do it.

Now they are trying to imitate the French rioters and have a car burning night every night. Go to it jerks, you are educating the rest of Europe with every molotav cocktail you throw.

Time to thin the herd.

[Tzimisce]

Islam has bloody borders.

[Uncle Miltie]

So the several articles prior to this one just happened to forget to mention the mayhem, arson and assault are perpetrated by the Youths who just happen to chant:

“Allah Akhbar!”

What a coinkiedink!

[Jimmy Valentine]

Correct solution: Call out the army and shoot down the Muzzies like the dogs they are. Greece almost succumbed to Muslim extremism a century ago.

They need to nut up and take a stand.

[apro]

Those videos you posted have nothing to do with the rioting that is going on right now. The rioters in the last few days are not muslim immigrants, they are homegrown GREEK anti-capitalist leftists in other words Communists, anarchists and hooligans, see soccer hooligans around the world, mostly youths and students are involved behind the riots. SOME muslims and other immigrants are coming out AFTER the idiot rioters leave destruction in their wake and they are stealing whatever they can from stores that the anarchists and hooligans broke store windows but for the most part even the muslims and immigrants are smart enough to stay away and out of the anarchists violent ways. This is nothing like 'French race riots' and like I said it has nothing to do with muslims or immigrants in Greece. The kid who was killed was Greek, he wasn't a muslim, he wasn't an immigrant and his father had a nice bank job. The rioting right now is not as serious as it is made out in the news reports, Monday night was another matter, now only a few hundred idiot teenagers are mostly out going along for fun nothing more. Once the armed riot police turned up they scrammed like mice.

Unfortunately this kind of rioting is common among HOME GROWN European origins youths who call themselves 'anarchists' but I doubt most know what the heck that term stands for other then destruction. Its nice to blame everything on the muslims but this is not the case here.

Anarchist movement in Greece traces its origins to the brutal military junta in the 1960s & 1970s. It ruled the country from 1967 to 1974 and it still is a sore spot with most Greek today.
Greek Military Junta of 1967-1974

In 1973 a student protest against the junta at Athens Polytechnic university resulted in the military sending tanks into the school which resulted in the deaths of over 40 civilians, mostly students, but this event was just the climax to over six years of brutal military rule in the country. Since the country has this violent past the Greek population is very sensitivity to state violence against civilians, which is why the authorities hesitant to use overwhelming force against them. To this day Greek police and military are not permitted to enter college campuses since 1973, when tanks quashed the student uprising at Athens Polytechnic. The movie "Z" is actually based upon Greek military rule of this time period.
Z Film

Its the events that took place in 1973 with killing of over 40 students by the military where what we are seeing today in Greece stems from, not muslims and not immigrants, THAT is from where Greece's reluctance to take strong action against student protests and demostrations stems from. Since then schools have always been springboards for such riots and the current wave of violence is no different and it also explains why many of the riots are in university towns. Students and pupils have effectively been given carte blanche to carry on such protesting, because their idiot professors have declared a three-day strike.

In 1985 another police shooting and the death of a teenager, Michalis Kaltezas, resulted in WEEKS of rioting by angry anarchist youths and months of daily clashes between students and police, those riots were MUCH worse then the ones we are seeing today. Granted these are the worst since then but rioting by anarchist Greek youths and the police is very common in Greece...has been common since the 1970s...so like I said even though its 'nice' to blame everything on the muslims, this time they have nothing to do with the rioting.

Clashes between the police, anarchists and other radical youth groups in Greece are common, but they have never attraced such international attention. There is a longstanding, delicate co-existence between the police and groups of far-left & far-right youths/adults tolerate certain crime in where many believe the authorities know who these individuals who organize such events are but won't go after them because their 'leaders' are the children of the elite in Greece, i.e. bored rich kids with nothing to do, but this type of anarchism isn't a Greek thing only. Such violent anarchists who clash with the police because they don't believe in 'authority' are very common through out Europe and the world.
Organized Anarchy Europe Intergovernmental Organizations

Exarchia the area where the shooting took place is a hanging ground for anarchists along with other groups so the cops didn't just pick to be in that location randomly out of blue and it is also the area where the 1973 violent student protest against the Greek junta at Athens Polytechnic university was crushed by the military over thirty years ago.