Archived material Access restricted Article
Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Mon 12/18/2006 View Sun 12/17/2006 View Sat 12/16/2006 View Fri 12/15/2006 View Thu 12/14/2006 View Wed 12/13/2006 View Tue 12/12/2006
1
2006-12-18 Europe
Mujahedin fighters return to Spain from Iraq
Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.
Posted by Steve White 2006-12-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 They are biding their time, which complicates things when it comes to making arrests

Arrest them for participating in foreign wars. Check their cell phones and ransack their laptops -- I'm sure some of the phone numbers will match our lists, or the calls will have been made from quite an unacceptable location (the back garden of the former #3, two iterations ago, f'r instance), and there'll be bomb-making instructions from master bombmaker #2, three iterations ago.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-18 02:26||   2006-12-18 02:26|| Front Page Top

#2 No Trailing the answer is simple, close down every freaking mosque, ban the porKoran and be done with it.

Unless you're a liberal (not you) then you call for the burning of the American flag and support Flying Imams.

Cowboy up!
Posted by Icerigger 2006-12-18 08:47||   2006-12-18 08:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Put a sock on it, Icerigger. TW has the right approach. I'm not going to violate the Constitution to get these guys.
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2006-12-18 10:09||   2006-12-18 10:09|| Front Page Top

#4 what winds me up is , they go off fighting to Iraq or wherever, then come back to Europe , re-new their state benefits whilst indoctinating misguided gullible youth , then go off again . Rinse and repeat
Posted by MacNails 2006-12-18 11:24||   2006-12-18 11:24|| Front Page Top

#5 When I was in Spain this summer (still owe you the damn writeup and a few pix), I toured the Seville Cathedral. It was built upon the former Almohad Mosque after the Reconquista. Most of the mosque was torn down (fairly standard 'we conquered you' protocol), but the builders preserved the "Courtyard of Orange Trees" and the freestanding minaret, which was converted into the bell tower now known as "La Giralda".

I toured the (enormously huge, and extremely Gothic) cathedral first, and then began my ascension of La Giralda. The tower is accessed by a sloping, elegantly bricked walkway that winds around and around the inside of the tower; there are regular portals and small balconies intercut on all four sides from which the muezzins would call al-Andalus to its knees each day. I pictured the curly toed slippers and soft padded shoes of the Almohadis climbing this path, then I pictured the hard leather boots of the Spaniards as they hauled up the machinery of the bell tower and reclaimed Spain for Christianity.

I finally rounded the 26th turn in the tower and gazed with satisfaction over the medieval center of Seville...and took note of the ring of gleaming new minarets encircling the outskirts of the city. Yikes.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-12-18 11:32||   2006-12-18 11:32|| Front Page Top

#6 No Trailing the answer is simple, close down every freaking mosque, ban the porKoran and be done with it.

It might well come to that, Icerigger. But Spain will never get to that point if they don't first grow enough spine to do the hard work I suggested. And I think I used to be a Scoop Jackson liberal, before 9/11, as much as I fit any label. Dr. Steve, it's Spain. I don't believe they live under the American constitution nowadays. ;-)

Seafarious dear, thank you for a beautiful and evocative word picture. I look forward to the mixed pleasure of reading your trip report. Yikes, indeed.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-18 12:32||   2006-12-18 12:32|| Front Page Top

#7 
Redacted by moderator. Comments may be redacted for trolling, violation of standards of good manners, or plain stupidity. Please correct the condition that applies and try again. Contents may be viewed in the sinktrap. Further violations may result in banning.
Posted by wxjames 2006-12-18 13:24||   2006-12-18 13:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Until the moonbats truly understand that the jihadis intend to kill all the LLL men and turn the LLL women into baby making machines...you are talking to deaf ears. It will take another 9/11...or worse to actually wake them up.
Posted by anymouse">anymouse  2006-12-18 13:49||   2006-12-18 13:49|| Front Page Top

#9 TW, thanks for the correction. My response to Icerigger was predicated on the fact that whether it's Spain or the U.S., his response is the same.
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2006-12-18 14:00||   2006-12-18 14:00|| Front Page Top

#10 There is that, too, Dr. Steve. I often miss those little subtleties, not being at all subtle myself.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-18 14:09||   2006-12-18 14:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]
Posted by wxjames 2006-12-18 13:24||   2006-12-18 13:24|| Front Page Top

13:24 wxjames
23:55 tipper
23:41 tipper
23:18 Lone Ranger
23:05 JosephMendiola
23:01 JosephMendiola
22:49 JosephMendiola
22:44 JosephMendiola
22:31 Barbara Skolaut
22:30 Chuck Simmins
22:27 Barbara Skolaut
22:21 Barbara Skolaut
22:11 Free Radical
22:08 Free Radical
21:47 Ptah
21:46 JosephMendiola
21:36 JosephMendiola
21:36 Elmert Crosh5077
21:33 JosephMendiola
21:29 trailing wife
21:29 JosephMendiola
21:22 closedanger@hotmail.com
21:20 JosephMendiola
21:15 trailing wife









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com