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| London bomber was motivated by Newsweek lies |
| 2005-07-23 |
| Article in The Australian; EFL ON his last visit to relatives in Pakistan this year, one of the July 7 London bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, spoke of wanting to die in a terrorist attack to avenge the way Muslims were treated. Suicide bomber indeed. While his family in Britain still claim they had no idea about his suicide mission, Tanweer confessed to his admiring cousin his ambition to become a "holy warrior". At his father's home village, about 50km from Faisalabad, Mohammad Saleem described how Tanweer, 22, hero-worshipped Osama bin Laden. And he never mentioned that to any relatives or Moslem friends in the UK. Of course, they knew nothing! Anyway, who doesn't hero-worship Osama? Mr Saleem who also hero-worships Osama bin Laden supported his cousin's bombing of a train at Aldgate Underground station, which killed seven people, saying: "Whatever he has done, if he has done it, then he has done right." Because Moslems always act as Allah dictates, victims be damned. He recalled how Tanweer argued with family and friends in the Pakistani backwater about the need for violent retaliation over alleged US abuse of Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He couldn't quite recall Tanweer's argument linking London civilians with Guantanamo. Tanweer was no stranger to the village of Chak No477, where his grandfather and several cousins live as parasites on money shipped from their cousins in the UK. During his last trip, the college dropout was visited regularly by another of the July 7 bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan. Hi, fancy meeting you here! do you have any plans? ... Mr Saleem said Tanweer had spent only a short time at the village before going with Khan to study jihad and develop their hero-worship at a madrassa, an Islamic school. "Whenever he would listen about sufferings of Muslims he would become very emotional and sentimental," Mr Saleem said. Cue wailing, shooting guns in the air, and watching Osama videos. "He was a good Muslim ... he also wished to take part in jihad and lay down his life." Cue bomb-making and martyrdom. He said Tanweer had never mentioned links with any militant group. We don't need groups. We're all militant. "He knew from Newsweek that excesses are being done to Muslims. Incidents like desecration of the Koran reported by Newsweek have always been in his mind," Mr Saleem said, referring to Newsweek's irresponsible lies about US guards at Guantanamo allegedly throwing a copy of Islam's holy book in a toilet. Hence, Londoners must die! What's that idyllic Pakistani location, anyway? ... Chak No477 is one of the more prosperous villages around Faisalabad. The better-off live in sprawling villas thanks to remittances from relatives who emigrated to Britain in the 1970s. Tanweer's father was one of those, settling in England in 1978. After Tanweer's death, more than 2000 villagers turned out last week for a service in his memory. Because they all know that "Whatever he has done, if he has done it, then he has done right." |
| Posted by:Kalle (kafir forever) |
| #4 Do you think this little tidbit will be mentioned by the MSM? Me neither. They will ignore it or spin it as 'koran descecration motivated bomber'.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-07-23 22:24 |
| #3 Since Tanweer argued with relatives, it is obvious that he had to make a case for his actions and that he was himself satisfied with it. How large a role the Newsweek claims played in this decision is unknowable, but it would have to be significant since he mentioned it specifically. Culpable incitement to violence is a common-law crime. The Allied Tribunal addressed that very issue during the trial of Julius Streicher at Nuremberg. Streicher was charged with inciting genocide. The conclusion was that he was not as guilty as those who acted on his incitement, but he was still guilty enough to go to the gallows. To be culpable, an act of incitement must generally display depraved disregard for both the truth and the consequences of the incitement. Newsweek is culpable in that the story was a wilfull fabrication, and that those concocting it either knew or reasonably could have known that it would incite violence. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-07-23 22:12 |
| #2 Did the story get them killed, or would the good Mr. Tanweer have come up with some other excuse? I don't mean to excuse the nastiness at Newsweek et al, but these foot soldiers of jihad don't really need any reasons. Andalusia would be enough, or some obscure reference about infidel Arabs in the Koran. |
| Posted by: James 2005-07-23 21:40 |
| #1 I wonder if Newsweek and the Democrats give a fat rat's ass that their tawdry political grandstanding just got 50+ Londoners murdered? I doubt they'd even understand that question... |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2005-07-23 19:39 |