Um cenário mais provável

«(...) The shooting on November 5th at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas may indicate similar attacks to come. The shooter carried out an attack on specifically outbound soldiers for deployment at the Soldier Readiness Center. Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan was raised as a Muslim and was opposed to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The fact that he chose to kill or maim over forty U.S. soldiers rather than go to war against Muslim jihadists is indicative of another motive. Explaining away this massacre as a conflict of conscience seems an oxymoron. Looking past the incident as a singular event, you'll find a very different possible reason for the attack. According to a November 4th Stratfor report, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasir al-Wahayshi wrote an article last week in an online magazine, Sada al-Malahim (The Echo of the Battle). In it he called for jihadists to conduct easy attacks on targets in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, as well as in Western nations "at war with Islam." They were to use easily accessible weapons and explosives and to not "waste a lot of time finding the materials." (...) Terror cells aren't the only form of recent jihadist activity, and roadside IEDs* aren't the only form of explosives for these new attacks. In Nasir al-Wahayshi's article last week, he cited an incident a few weeks ago where an assassin wore a small IED in his anal cavity to attack Saudi Deputy Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef. This was a new and unexpected form of suicide bombing. It was unsuccessful in killing the target, only slightly injuring him, but the method proved effective against detection. Also in the article, al-Wahayshi mentioned a specific amount of explosives that could be made from household items, suggesting similar IEDs could be improvised. Grassroots jihadists may also be interpreting attacks to be suicide bombings on individual targets as well as in specific geographical locations. Whether Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan acted out of insanity or some bizarre moral dilemma, he conducted an attack of a terrorist nature on U.S. soil. Americans need to become more vigilant, as we are more vulnerable to attack from jihadists now than ever. Terror cells will be even harder to prevent, as new grassroots jihadists do not need to communicate directly with a central authority. They now get their information from websites and take cues from leadership messages published on them. There will be less chatter to monitor because these groups will find each other locally and keep their operations small and low-key. Now is the time for our current government to become proactive in thwarting terrorist plots. Being reactionary just won't cut it anymore. The fact that the Obama Administration renamed the "War on Terror" to the "Overseas Contingency Plan" highlights just how off-base they are on the threat our country now faces. (...)»

In American Thinker.

* - IED.

Queda do Muro de Berlim: 20 anos

«(...) Para o comunismo não houve um Nuremberga II. Os genocidas, os torcionários, os delactores também morrem em casa, num cadeirão em frente da lareira, com manta sobre os joelhos.»

In Combustões.

Cenário pessimista

Ao fim de um dia de notícias sobre o massacre de Fort Hood, ocorreu-me um texto que li há meses no Gates of Vienna. Ficção histórico-prospectiva? Receio que nos próximos anos nos venhamos a lembrar deste e doutros textos do mesmo autor, El Inglés, dos quais se pode encontrar uma listagem na coluna da esquerda do Gates of Vienna.

Infiltração jihadista (5)

Conclusões precipitadas?

«(...) When in heaven’s name will we get a Commander-in-Chief who is willing to hold the military accountable for their weasley, whingey excuses? For too many administrations we have had weak-willed politicians who have refused to speak the truth about the poison in their realm. It is past time to eliminate the possibility of even one more outbreak of Sudden Jihad against our soldiers within what is supposed to be friendly territory. It is time for our Commander-in-Chief to stop mouthing platitudes and to perform the hard and necessary work of making our military safe at home. Are there loyal Muslims within the ranks of our military? No doubt. But the incidence of Cowardly Superiors is rising, and for the sake of our men’s morale and welfare, Muslims must be discriminated against by being declared ineligible for active military duty in the service of their country. There are plenty of other ways to serve that don’t involve the risk against other soldiers of cold-blooded “friendly” fire. Until we have an officers corps worthy of the name, the Muslim soldiers need to go, taking their Muslim chaplains with them. Their going will also obviate all the extra requirements the government has to supply to keep the followers of Allah in accord with his dictates. (...)»

Infiltração jihadista (4)

Segundo várias fontes, o autor dos disparos de Fort Hood, antes de iniciar a carnificina, terá gritado "Allahu Akhbar", uma interjeição conhecida dos leitores deste blogue e que aqui dispensa tradução.

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Infiltração jihadista (3)

Do presidente Obama chegam palavras sensatas:

«I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.»

Esperemos que, uma vez conhecidos todos os factos, tanto o presidente como os restantes políticos norte-americanos, assim como os media e a academia, saibam tirar as conclusões apropriadas.

Infiltração jihadista (2)

Sobre outros atentados, alguns levados a cabo, outros abortados pelas forças de segurança norte-americanas, e sobre as conclusões tiradas e as lições aprendidas, ou não, pelos norte-americanos, ler o artigo de Victor Davis Hanson no Pajamas Media.

Coragem debaixo de fogo

Segundo noticia a CBS, o autor dos disparos que contribuíram para neutralizar Nidal Malik Hasan, o responsável pelo atentado, provavelmente jihadista de Fort Hood, foi a agente da polícia Kimberly Munley.

Kimberly Munley

Esperemos que não venha a ser processada por atentar contra a integridade física de um mujahid.

Infiltração jihadista

Ao que tudo indica, o indivíduo que levou a cabo o morticínio de Fort Hood agiu com motivações religiosas, determinado a matar tantos soldados inimigos do Islão quanto possível.

Entretanto, aguarda-se com expectativa a reacção dos media e dos políticos norte-americanos às notícias que vão surgindo dando conta da eventual motivação religiosa deste atentado - o qual foi antecedido por um outro a um posto de recrutamento do exército americano já este ano e pela detenção de cinco indivíduos que planeavam um atentado semelhante num outro quartel -, para verificar se, finalmente, os fazedores de opinião e os decisores decidem encarar de frente a ameaça islâmica e o risco de ter indivíduos altamente hostis aos valores ocidentais a viver entre nós e, mais grave ainda, a servir nas nossas forças armadas.

Nidal Malik Hasan

Sob sequestro

Soeren Kern publica no Pajamas Media um excelente artigo no qual analisa a posição do governo Zapatero face ao conflito Israelo-Árabe, cuja leitura integral se recomenda. Nele faz esta afirmação que pretende descrever o estado actual da política externa europeia:

«(...) Europeans are afraid (...) that Hezbollah (which is said to have operatives in every EU country) may activate sleeper cells to carry out attacks inside Europe. And Europeans are afraid of inciting the thousands of shiftless young Muslim immigrants in towns and cities throughout “Eurabia.” Indeed, the fear of angry Muslims is so pervasive in Europe that in practical terms Islam has already established a de facto veto on European foreign policymaking. (...)»

Europa: um continente sob sequestro.

A coragem do artista dimi

Alguns artistas parecem retirar imensa satisfação da profanação de símbolos e da ridicularização das crenças cristãs. Através das suas obras e de declarações públicas, fazem gala de uma tremenda aversão, quando não hostilidade, pelo cristianismo em geral e pelo catolicismo em particular, mostrando assim, para além de uma soberba auto-suficiência em relação ao Criador - em Quem não acreditam -, que não têm medo de afrontar essa grande organização conspirativa e malévola, a Igreja Católica, indiferentes aos riscos de retaliação por parte dos fiéis católicos - os quais chegam ao ponto de fazer abaixo-assinados de protesto e a extremos de crueldade como fazer vigílias de oração em desagravo -, e por parte da própria hierarquia católica, ostentando um altaneiro desprezo perante as tenebrosas ameaças de excomunhão e decorrente condenação eterna. Bravos homens! Ora sucede que esses mesmos paladinos da autonomia do homem perante Deus e da liberdade de expressão perante a sensibilidade cristã, não demonstram a mesma coragem face àquela que é conhecida como "a religião da paz", o Islão. O mais recente exemplo de coragem perante os mansos e tibieza perante os ferozes chega dos EUA, land of the brave and home of the free, pela pessoa do realizador de cinema Roland Emmeric, autor de The Day After Tomorrow e de Independence Day. Emmeric realizou 2012, filme que inclui uma sequência na qual o Cristo Redentor do Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro, é destruído, como forma de afirmar a sua oposição à "religião organizada". E é o próprio realizador quem admite ter desistido da ideia de, no mesmo contexto, destruir o Kaaba por temer retaliações por parte do Islão:

«(...) I wanted to do that [exibir uma cena da destruição do Kaaba], I have to admit. But my co-writer Harald said I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie. And he was right. We have to all in the Western world think about this.

"You can actually let Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is.»

A coragem do artista progressista em todo o seu esplendor, contrastando com a de Kurt Westergaard, autor do famoso cartoon que retrata Mafoma com um turbante em forma de bomba. Aqui fica o primeiro de três clips de uma entrevista com Westergard e com Lars Hedegaar, presidente da International Free Press Society: Via Bivouac-ID e Gates of Vienna.

Tomada islâmica do poder

Resumidamente: as autoridades de uma cidade alemã autorizam a construção de um minarete na condição de não haver altifalantes; o minarete é construído; os muçulmanos instalam altifalantes e dizem que o único compromisso que assumiram em relação aos altifalantes dizia respeito a limites nos decibéis; o responsável do urbanismo, o qual pugnou pela autorização de construção do minarete - perante a oposição de muitos habitantes da cidade -, sente-se enganado (coitado!) e nega que alguma vez se tenha falado de intensidade de som; o responsável pela associação de amizade entre cristãos e muçulmanos (!) sente-se desiludido (imagine-se) perante o abuso de confiança. Nada disto aconteceria se autoridades e cristãos bem intencionados se informassem sobre o que é, verdadeiramente, o Islão e assim pudessem fazer face à investida muçulmana de forma a sustê-la e não a, como é o caso, a facilitá-la. Postal escrito a partir deste postal da Bivuac-ID, via La Yihad en Eurabia.

O muro e o príncipe

Uma análise da indisponibilidade de Obama para participar nas comemorações do derrube do Muro de Berlim, por Rich Lowry, no National Review Online.

«In his first year in office, Barack Obama has visited more foreign countries than any other president. He’s touched ground in 16 countries, easily outpacing Bill Clinton (three) and George W. Bush (eleven). It’s an itinerary befitting a “citizen of the world.” But there’s one stop Obama won’t make. He has begged off going to Berlin next week to attend ceremonies commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. His schedule is reportedly too crowded. (...) Obama’s failure to go to Berlin is the most telling nonevent of his presidency. It’s hard to imagine any other American president eschewing the occasion. Only Obama — with his dismissive view of the Cold War as a relic distorting our thinking and his attenuated commitment to America’s exceptional role in the world — would spurn German chancellor Angela Merkel’s invitation to attend. Obama famously made a speech in Berlin during last year’s campaign, but at an event devoted to celebrating himself as the apotheosis of world hopefulness. He said of 1989, “a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.” The line was typical Obama verbal soufflé, soaring but vulnerable to collapse upon the slightest jostling from logic or historical fact. The wall came down only after the free world resolutely stood against the Communist bloc. Rather than a warm-and-fuzzy exercise in global understanding, the Cold War was another iteration of the 20th century’s long war between totalitarianism and Western liberalism. The West prevailed on the back of American strength. But Obama doesn’t think in such antiquated, triumphalist terms. Given to apologizing for his nation abroad, he resolutely downplays American leadership. “President Obama is, (...) the Washington Post notes, approaching “the world as a community of nations, more alike than different in outlook and interest.” To the extent that the Cold War doesn’t fit this unbelievably naïve worldview, it’s an intellectual inconvenience. (...) An American president will skip events marking the end of a struggle to which we, as a nation — under presidents of both parties — devoted blood and treasure for 50 years. For Barack Obama, 1989 is just another far-away year — and the Democratic party of such men as Harry S. Truman and JFK has never seemed more distant.»

Ver também: Qual muro?, Obama iguala Bush e O príncipe da paz?

Maravilhas do socialismo do sec. XXI

O presidente Chavez, tão apreciado pelas elites esquerdistas mundiais, sem excepção da portuguesa, exortou os venezuelanos a tomar duches não superiores a três minutos. Esta é uma das faces do socialismo, embora não a mais trágica:

« (...) President Hugo Chavez called on Venezuelans on Wednesday to stop singing in the shower and to wash in three minutes because the oil-exporting nation is having problems supplying water and electricity.

Venezuela has suffered several serious blackouts in the past year because of rapidly growing demand and under-investment, which has been aggravated by a drop in water levels in hydroelectric dams that provide most of its energy.

Chavez announced energy-saving measures and said he would create a ministry to deal with the electricity shortages, which have affected the image of his socialist revolution (...).

"Some people sing in the shower, in the shower half an hour. No kids, three minutes is more than enough. I've counted, three minutes, and I don't stink," he said during a televised Cabinet meeting.

(...)

He mentioned using airplanes to try to force rain from clouds and said the government would soon publish a decree prohibiting imports of low-efficiency electrical appliances. He called on ministries and state-run companies to cut energy consumption by 20 percent immediately.»

Uma palavra para a presunção de omnipotência expressa no último parágrafo, nomeadamente através da intenção de fazer chover através do uso de aviões, eventualmente através da dispersão de substâncias catalisadoras da condensação.

Political Islam: Boletim da opressão sobre as mulheres - Outubro 2009

Bulletin of the Oppression of Women November 2, 2009

Please spread this bulletin and send us events that you find. (Por favor, divulgue este boletim.) North America

October 15, 2009 USA Update on Rifqa Bary.

October 20, 2009 USA If making Islam a "greater and more authentic part" of Muslim's lives results in the implementation of sharia law, based not in mythology but in contemporary practice, the predictable outcome is the furtherance of backwardness, repression, intolerance, and inequality afflicting the Muslim world today.

October 21, 2009 USA A father ran down his "too Westernized" daughter in an attempted honor killing. October 30, 2009 Update. http://abcnews.go.com/WN/US/muslim-father-arrested-running-westernized-daughter/story?id=8956887 Comment on this crime. http://www.aina.org/news/20091030220142.htm October 22, 2009 USA With a few exceptions, the mainstream media continue to kill stories about honor killings and attempted honor killings in North America.

November 1, 2009 USA Honor killings are on the rise in the United States.

Asia October 11, 2009 Pakistan A Christian schoolgirl in Pakistan's Punjab province was recovering Sunday, October 11, after she was allegedly "ruthlessly beaten" with a bamboo stick by a Muslim headteacher for saying she is "a Pakistani" citizen. October 15, 2009 Indonesia A controversial bill that includes a provision for the stoning to death of adulterers is now officially law. October 17, 2009 Pakistan The Taliban threatens to kill more Christians and treat their women as sex slaves. October 27, 2009 Indonesia Women are banned from wearing trousers and jeans. October 27, 2009 Turkey Two British sisters and their friend endured a two-hour rape ordeal during a holiday trip to Turkey. October 29, 2009 Malaysia Malaysia's conservative Islamic party has urged Muslim men to marry single mothers as additional wives instead of "young virgin girls". October 30, 2009 Indonesia A photo of Islamic women at the Feast of the Sacrifice. November 1, 2009 Pakistan Jihadis blow up a girls' school, wounding four people. Europe October 17, 2009 UK A woman sexually assaulted by an immigrant yesterday won her six-and-a-half year battle to have her attacker deported. October 19, 2009 Finland Immigrant women in Finland are increasingly the victims of violence perpetrated in the name of family honor. October 19, 2009 UK British virgin girls as young as 12 are being sold to mega-rich Arabs for sex at up to £50,000 a time. October 20, 2009 UK Mother in Tulay Goren 'honour killing' tells of daughter's last day. October 22, 2009 Denmark A Palestinian father hits a primary school teacher and bites his ear after he had shaken the hand of the man's daughter. October 22, 2009 Switzerland Campaigners have welcomed government plans to impose tougher penalties on those found guilty of imposing forced marriage. October 22, 2009 UK An asylum seeker and his wife blackmailed a Muslim friend by threatening to show photographs of her wearing jeans and a T-shirt to her devout family. October 28, 2009 UK A teenager is accused of raping a young woman after locking her up for nine hours. October 29, 2009 UK A Muslim rapist used social networking site to find victim. October 30, 2009 UK Muslim women will be allowed to don burkas under their mortar boards at Cambridge University graduation ceremonies. Middle East October 18, 2009 Kuwait Man uses 'power of the ring' to sexually abuse 30 women. October 24, 2009 Saudi Arabia A Saudi lawyer says a female journalist has been sentenced to 60 lashes for her involvement in a TV show in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex. October 29, 3009 Afghanistan Afghan girls burn themselves to escape marriage.

Africa October 27, 2009 Somalia Christian woman in Somalia who refused to wear veil is killed. October 28, 2009 Somalia Somali women are being beaten for violating Sharia law. October 29, 2009 Somalia Hundreds of people have attended a wedding in central Somalia between a man who says he is 112 years old, and his teenage wife. Produced by www.politicalislam.com Publisher: Bill Warner; Editor: Asma Marwan