European-Born Jihad

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The latest attempted terror campaign in Europe involved eight German and two British recruits planning Mumbai-style attacks in France, the United Kingdom and Germany on orders from Osama Bin Laden. The plot may have been foiled, but the threat hasn’t subsided. Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups are looking upon the radicalism in the European-Muslim communities with glee and stand ready to dispatch more European recruits to bring jihad to the West.

The information about Al-Qaeda’s latest terror plots came from a German terrorist who was captured on his way to Europe. He told his interrogators that Osama Bin Laden had green-lighted the sending of operatives from Pakistan with European passports. Bin Laden has ordered his network to shift to attacks on soft targets, modeled after the shooting rampages in Mumbai, India in November 2008. The State Department has issued a travel advisory for Americans in Europe due to concerns that cells are already in Europe and have completed their surveillance in preparation for striking targets like airports and tourist hotspots.

Two other recent incidents may be connected. Shortly before the news about this terror campaign broke, a female suicide bombing in Paris was prevented and seven tons of Iranian explosives were seized in Italy, believed to be on their way to Syria. “The threat-reporting stream today is like what we were seeing in the summer of 2001,” one former senior U.S. intelligence official said.

There was a similar campaign planned by Al-Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban last year. In the spring of 2009, the British authorities arrested a dozen people suspected of being involved in plans to attack shopping centers around Easter as well as other targets in Spain, Germany, France and Portugal. The plot was broken up after an informant revealed the suspects had been trained in Pakistan and met a top Taliban commander in Waziristan.

President Obama was told when he first came into office that radical Muslims in the United Kingdom of Pakistani origin posed the biggest threat, and with good reason. At least 2,000 terrorism suspects are being monitored in the community, and reportedly 40 percent of the CIA’s operations aimed at preventing attacks on the U.S. are carried out in the United Kingdom. The British police have intervened to stop the possible radicalization of 200 youth, including some only 13 years old and radical Muslims gangs whose members openly aspire to become suicide bombers have formed, such as the Bang Bang Taliban. And these recruits are going to places like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia for training and returning home. In June 2007, a Taliban videotape celebrated the graduation of British nationals from their terrorist education that pledged to carry out suicide attacks in their country.

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  • Chezwick_Mac

    It's only going to get worse, folks. as Muslims become a greater percentage of the population in the West, so will the number of terrorists increase exponentially.

    There will come a time in the not-too-distant future when unrelated, multiple terrorist plots are unfolding simultaneously. Western intelligence services – for lack of manpower, simply won't be able to keep up.

    The one REAL solution, limiting Muslim immigration, is currently out of the question….because it upsets the delicate sensibilities of our elite.

  • muchiboy

    "so will the number of terrorists increase exponentially."

    Increase maybe,but certainly not exponentially.

    "one REAL solution, limiting Muslim immigration,"

    Not necessarily,there could be a paradoxical response from Muslims generally in the west after such extreme measures.We need to embrace our own Muslim population here at home instead of alienating them.We need their loyalty,the young and the old.Muchiboy

    • Chezwick_Mac

      "Not necessarily,there could be a paradoxical response from Muslims generally in the west after such extreme measures."

      RESPONSE: Actually, the reaction of Muslims to what you refer to as "extreme measures" would not be "paradoxical" at all. They would react in opposition, both politically and with violence, as they have always done when their position of supremacism was threatened.

      "We need to embrace our own Muslim population here at home instead of alienating them.We need their loyalty,the young and the old."

      RESPONSE: This is the classic mindset of the appeaser: Give them what they want so they won't hate us. And if that means surrendering our culture of freedom, no big deal, eh?

  • Wordcrunch991

    The idea of drastically curtailing Muslim immigration is gaining wide popularity in continental Europe. Of course Wilders' success in the Netherlands has much to do with the opening floodgates. Outside of Britain which looks hopeless at the moment, this looks like a major political plank. Economically, the Muslim inundations make very little sense; culturally they are a disaster. Voters have started wisening about the growth of dangerous, no-go enclaves in their cities, large-scale welfare ripoffs, declining cultural standards. Ten, or even five, years ago, public support for the immigration halt would have been instantly denounced as neo-fascist. This still holds some places, with Angela Merkel still holding onto the idea. But this will give -no doubt. Turkey's PM Erdogan recent edict in Germany that "assimilation is crime against humanity" has had huge impact. People refer to it constantly as assault on the very idea of a national state. Wilders' visit in Germany on the eve of the re-start of the absurd prosecution of him was very smart and if he beats the rap – which is a foregone conclusion expect Theo Sarrazin's ideas quickly gaining ground.

  • jim

    Non-Muslims are either being attacked by or attacks are being advocated by:

    1) Iran's government
    2) Pakistan's government
    3) Iraqi "insurgents"
    4) Afghanistan's Taliban
    5) Al Qaeda operatives in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Sweden and other European countries.

    Q: What is the underlying thread amongst all these sources of threats to the world?
    A: Islam

    The non-Muslim world needs to wake up to the fact that it is at war with an evil, totalitarian ideology, an ideology as evil as the fascism of Nazis, and this ideology goes by the name of Islam.

    • Chezwick_Mac

      6) Muslim mobs persecuting Coptic Christians in Egypt
      7) Muslim extremists killing Christians in Indonesia
      8) Muslim Jihadis killing Buddhists in southern Thailand
      9) Muslim Jihadists killing Christians in the southern Philippines 10) Muslim Jihadists killing non-Muslims in western China
      11) Muslim Jihadists killing Hindus in Kashmir
      12) Muslim Jihadists killing non-Muslims in Chechnya
      13) Muslim Jihadists killing Christian missionaries in Algeria
      14) Muslim extremists killing Christians in Nigeria

      • ryder

        Islam is a practical religion – you kick my ass and I will kick your ass back. The Palestine issue has been way too long for the West to undermine muslims. Iraq invaded just based on lies. Afghanistan because of Al-Qaeda you have to invade a country? South Philippines and South Thailand have been a majority moslem region for centuries. Kashmir– why don't just let the population – muslim majority to decide their future – the same with Chechya. Nigeria 50:50 country -Christian too killed a lot of moslem. China 20 million moslem just a minute to the Han population

  • muchiboy

    "as they have always done when their position of supremacism was threatened."

    What position of supremacy? Not in the west generally,and certainly not in Canada nor America.

    "This is the classic mindset of the appeaser: Give them what they want so they won't hate us. And if that means surrendering our culture of freedom, no big deal, eh? "

    I didn't think we were at that danger point of surrendering our culture of freedom.Most Muslims come to this country because of the opportunities,not to take over or take away our freedoms.We are a multicultural nation i.e.Canada,and we embrace diversity,and doing a pretty good job so far,thanks to all of everyone,them and us.Toronto and Vancouver are two Canadian cities where minorities are in the majority and operating admirably.
    Sure,Islam is in crisis,and we must support the moderates in making it respectful of other religions and contemporary human rights and modern values.The west will go a long way towards restoring the trust of the Muslim world when it acknowledges their unfairness towards the Palestinians and their Israel/Jewish bias.Muchiboy

    • stephencuz

      "Most Muslims come to this country because of the opportunities, not to take over or take away our freedoms."
      Opportunities to bilk the welfare system.

  • tanstaafl

    muchiboy – time to stop drinking the kool-aid and get a cup of coffee. Through out the 1400 year history of Islam, Muslim "immigrants" are merely the advance force of the jihad.

    Two questions – How many infidels have been killed during Islam's continuous jihad? How many deadly Islamic attacks have there been since 9/11?

  • Jaybo

    It's time to turn the tables and put Islam on the defensive in Western countries. The West is still locked in a defensive posture at home – but offensive in the M.E. At home we are driven by fear, not intellect. We have alert levels, travel warnings, undercover operations in "defense" of the homeland. We know how to take out a training camp there, but don't know how to react to our own sleeper cells and zombies, many of whom survive through an insurgency of corruption inside the gates. We can't discriminate, profile, or even point fingers. So we're forced to be no more than deer standing frozen as the headlights and noise approaches. It's a procedure designed to fail.

    But we can easily turn the tables and put "them" on the defensive. They can be driven by "fear" while in the West. And that will force their zombies out of hiding. They will have no choice! Their only defense will be a "moral" defense, and they have none.

    They way to do it is to demand as a moral and religious requirement that Muslims in the West "react" against their Muslim jihadists. So far, we have given them the "right" to speak out, march, write, go on TV, to distance themselves. But they have not! They have done the opposite, and with the help of our liberals, have been protected like children – and have given them a euphemism title: "moderate Muslims." If they simply stay home and work and lay low, they are "moderates." This should change. The "right" to speak out against Islamism in the West should not be a "right," but an "obligation" from here on. Silence should no longer be acceptable, and should be defined as "tacit approval."

    We should start at the top of the West's pyramid of Islamic spokespersons: teachers, businessmen, journalists, writers, and even doctors or scientists. This is not an act of "patriotism" which is demanded, but a mandatory obligation to disavow Islamic terror – here and everywhere. Their inability or unwillingness to stand with us, becomes their actual stand "against us" by default. They can no longer be allowed to keep their feelings to themselves. We are in a state of war, and many of the enemy's military and moral supporters are here now.

    After Pearl Harbor, FDR had our car factories stop producing cars and begin making military vehicles and tanks. We turned on a dime. In the same way, we should turn the tables on Islamism. Their duty to stand with their country is on them. Not a mere "right," but a moral and in-effect legal obligation and duty.

  • Rifleman

    Notice how the jihadis plan attacks on Christian Holidays, just as they do Jewish Holidays.

    The switch to soft targets is a sign of weakness and desperation, but these are still the throwaways. When the scores of thousands of terrorist operatives and cadre already here start compromising themselves to conduct attacks we'll know they are really getting desperate.