NP - An Interesting facet

Ghetta Life ghetta_outta at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 8 10:46:24 CDT 2005


http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/7/8/02212/73295

Muslim Civil War - Second Front
By thibaud

Overlooked by most media outlets (but not by London bloggers) in the Edgware 
Road and Aldgate bombings is the very interesting fact that all the bombs 
were set off in or near the most heavily muslim neighborhoods in the UK -- 
or in western Europe, for that matter. One can see why the bombers avoided 
Gleneagles; as to logical London targets, one could conceivably argue that 
Whitehall or Westminster are too tough to penetrate for even the most 
ingenious death cultist.

But why on earth would muslims set off so many bombs in their own 
mini-capital, as it were?

After all, if your aim is to sow terror in London and disrupt the city's 
operations, then surely you'd target the City, where the money guys operate, 
or-- if this is too tough to pull off-- the softer target of the tonier West 
End neighborhoods, home to the luxe retailers and theatres, other tourist 
establishments and most of the wealthy Londoners, including most of the 
expat American managers and bankers.

But certainly not Edgware Road! This is where the UK's first Islamic Bank 
just opened its main branch. It's where you go to get any kind of arabic 
reading material, to organize a muslim demonstration, or to recruit muslims 
to any cause or mosque or mission. Bombing Edgware to send a message to 
Blair would be like the IRA bombing Irish workers' pubs in Hammersmith to 
send a message during the 1980s to Thatcher. The "anti-Iraq War" explanation 
makes utterly no sense.

The only theses that do explain why muslims would bomb their own are either:

a) these bombers are completely irrational and have no greater goal than to 
reprise the 1930s Spanish Fascists' memorable cry, Viva El Muerte! or

b) the bombers wished to send a very specific message, along with the 
general message about their ability to create chaos, to the secular and 
moderate UK muslims who oppose them and reject "Captain Hook" Hamza and the 
insanity of the whole Islamist death cult.

My vote's for b). As many others have pointed out, this is now a civil war 
within the muslim world. Iraq was the first front in the struggle of muslim 
democrats vs muslim fascists and death cultists. If my theory re the Edgware 
bombings is correct, Europe is now officially the second front in the 
worldwide Muslim Civil War.

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