Posted on 12/13/2010 3:25:55 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly showed little interest in religion as he was growing up in Sweden, channelling his energies into sport and partying.
But after he began attending Bedfordshire University in Luton everything changed as he became a strict Muslim with increasingly extremist views, even naming his baby son Osama in honour of the al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden.
On Saturday he blew himself up in a street full of Christmas shoppers in Swedens first suicide attack, after recording a message which promised to kill your children, daughters, brothers and sisters
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I agree with all that. The “that’s racist” kid is usually, if not always, posted in sarcasm.
No, but I enjoy Mark Steyn. He’s Canadian, so I guess there’s a link there.
The dynamics between the more radical terror groups like Al Qaeda and the more “patient” Muslim brotherghood groups are interesting.
The Luton mosque seems to be more in the brotherhood camp. Patience. No terror. Let us conquer Europe in 50 years through immigration and birthrates.
IMHO their best and most rational strategy. Like picking a fruit when it’s ripe. But, some hotheads want to speed up the progress by violent jihad. Some times these groups seems to act in opposition... I.e. brotherhood types like Tariq Ramadan are upset at the “terrorists” because they might upset the long term plan - i.e. wake up the western people to the threat.
At other times Ramadan and other muslim brotherhood types seems to use the terrorists as a leverage in a “good cop, bad cop” manner. i.e. give in to our “reasonable” demands otherwise some hotheads we cannot control might act out...
Got to be hard for the western intel agencies to figure this all out. I hope they at least are working on it.
Cheers.
I think you are right.
They are increasingly forced to operate in isolated cells, forced to rely on bomb making information from internet sources etc.
Though as the saying goes. We have to be lucky every time, they have to be lucky once.
I agree with your posts.
I would also add, that a better discussion would probably be had by addressing the points at hand, and ignoring perceived sleights. Sleights are hard enough to discern in real-life, let alone the internet.
I know. I insulted half of the “internetz” last week :-P
Have a nice weekend.
Cheers.
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