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2007-09-15 Europe

Four questions on al Qaeda's threat to Sweden

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Posted by mrp 2007-09-15 15:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It's called a distraction. When you've stepped on your richard the way AQ has in Anbar you pick on a taget everyone (in your peer group) loves to hate, e.g., Saddam launching Scuds (remember them?) at Israel during Sandbox I.

And I thought we read here a while ago that Omar Al Baddoggy was a fictional character made up by foreign AQ's to pretend an Iraqi was head of the lame stains.

Posted by Blinky Sninesh8215 2007-09-15 17:47|| 2007-09-15 17:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't over-analyze Jihadi web site bravado. Talk is cheap and Omar al Baghdadi is just talkin'. It's not like he has put the $100,000 in escrow in a Swedish bank account.

Posted by Darrell 2007-09-15 17:55|| 2007-09-15 17:55|| Front Page Top

#3 I think the answer to question #1 is the meeting of the 22 Muslim diplomats with Swedish PM Reinfeldt. Taking place earlier this month, the sleek, well-fed diplomats took it upon themselves to speak indignantly on behalf of their 1.3 billion co-religionists.

With their manicured fingernails, their excellencies waved a signed letter which demanded that the Swedish government make changes to its constitution so that future insults to the name of Mohammed might be prevented, and that infidels might know their place in the Ummah. Reinfeldt made suitable noises and subtle bows and scrapes, and afterwards most likely called his ~~masters~~ friends at Ikea, Ericsson, Electrolux, Volvo, and Skania to let them know that everything was jake.

AQ was having none of that. For them, there's a matter of who really speaks for all Muslims; which organization is truly dedicated to the establishment of the universal Caliphate. And in Zawahiri's mind, those 22 diplomatic peacocks represented the corrupt, heretical tools of the Crusaders and Zionists. The ideal response for am Islamist warrior to a backroom deal between foreign emissaries and politicians was a roar for blood backed by a sack full of Benjamins.

And so it was done.

Posted by mrp 2007-09-15 18:22|| 2007-09-15 18:22|| Front Page Top

#4 It is a shame nothing is likely to seriously provoke the Swedes before they have all been raped and converted. One could fantasize about a Crusade run by Ikea.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-09-15 18:23|| 2007-09-15 18:23|| Front Page Top

#5 I would not write of Swedes, yet. Not the politicos--they are beyond hope--but the ordinary Lars, Carl, Erik and Sven and their female counterparts. Time will come that despite the cooler environment their blood will start to boil. At that moment, they will sweep whatever stands in their way. Swedes were able to avoid wars for several centuries, but in this case, the enemy is already behind gates, inside, so they will have to fight if they want to survive as Swedes. The same applies to other western Euro nations. Not worried about easterners, they were not fucked up by gramscian whoredom.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-15 18:39|| 2007-09-15 18:39|| Front Page Top

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