Just four lads who blew themselves up

Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, 09 April 2006 08:26.

The official inquiry into the 7 July London bombings will say the attack was planned on a shoestring budget from information on the internet, that there was no ‘fifth-bomber’ and no direct support from al-Qaeda, although two of the bombers had visited Pakistan.

The first forensic account of the atrocity that claimed the lives of 52 people, which will be published in the next few weeks, will say that attacks were the product of a ‘simple and inexpensive’ plot hatched by four British suicide bombers bent on martyrdom.

Far from being the work of an international terror network, as originally suspected, the attack was carried out by four men who had scoured terror sites on the internet. Their knapsack bombs cost only a few hundred pounds, according to the first completed draft of the government’s definitive report into the blasts.

Mark Towsnend, writing in The Observer today.

So these well-adjusted, Westernised young men, all born in Britain and led by a married thirty-year old special-needs teacher, were entirely self-motivated and self-trained. There was no AQ hand at work. There was no international flow of funds. There was no connection to the wider world of Islamic terror at all other than via a few “How To” websites and a rant by Ayman al-Zawahiri, which someone tacked on to Mohammad Sidique Khan’s video broadcast by Al-Jazeera.

However, on that video Khan helpfully explains:-

Your democratically elected governments continually perpetrate atrocities against my people all over the world. Your support makes you directly responsible. We are at war and I am a soldier. Now you too will taste the reality of this situation.

Taken together with the spontaneous nature of the London bombings and the appearance of al-Zawahiri on the video, this statement tells us all we need to know:-

1. UBL’s strategy of kicking America into action, and thereby uniting the Ummah against both the West and its corrupt agents in Saudi, has worked in every regard. Were it not so, AQ’s hand would have been discovered in the London bombings. But no such direct involvement was necessary (nor in the failed, entirely independent follow-up of 21/7, conducted this time by four asylum-seekers).

2. The assimilated lifestyle of the four bombers did nothing to accomodate them to our way of life or our country. They were not, in fact, alienated in any resolvable way. They were Moslems. Khan’s sense of “my people all over the world” was Islamic. So was his understanding that we are kufs - perpetual, faithless, impure outsiders. No amount of Blairite inclusiveness, no Marxian pieties will shift the balance here from inclusion with the Ummah to inclusion with us, the kufs. Government efforts at persuasion are completely inappropriate to the task - and, indeed, classic dhimmi behaviour. In fact, the task is impossible anyway because it is unnatural for different peoples to live in contentment in the same space.

3. Islam, with its military beginnings, is essentially militant. We know it now. We know it is not “a religion of peace” but a product of an unpacific people. Its prodigious capacity to take offence and react with violence, its bloody borders, its death fatwas, even its beguiling reward of continually refreshed, paradisiac virgins render it a fierce and careless master of the human heart. “I and thousands like me have forsaken everything for what we believe,” Khan said. This reality isn’t likely to be supplanted in the native British imagination by a Pee-Cee inspired bit of flim-flam about “mainstream” Islam. After 7/7 we are right to be suspicious. Suspicion is healthy, a protection against the unknown - and self-protection is a far higher and more human imperative than any Marxoid fantasy.

Tags: War on Terror

Comments:

Posted by Eurostatistician on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:20 | #

Guessedworker,
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Spot on, all three points.
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I hope this isn’t too off-topic, but quite apart from terror, there’s another (even more ghastly) dimension to Islam. Here’s an abstract I’ve already posted in Sammy’s Data and in Butterflies and Wheels, from a paper published in ‘The Mankind Quarterly’.

In an article entitled “The Fertility Paradox: Gender Roles, Fertility and Cultural Evolution” (full text not on the Net, unfortunately), Mackey and Immerman state:

“A sea-change in gender-roles occurred in Europe and North America during the latter half of the twentieth century. This resulted from increased options for women to direct their own life histories, including greater educational and employment opportunities and the ability to exercise reproductive choice. This new philosophy of gender egalitarianism is in direct contrast to the older tradition of gender complementarity that still survives in many other cultures despite technological modernization. The greater freedom of women in gender egalitarian societies has nevertheless created a paradox: gender egalitarian societies are likely to be replaced by gender complimentary societies. This is because the increased autonomy and freedom of women is accompanied by a declining birthrate, and societies that practice gender equality must therefore be inevitably replaced by the surplus population from societies that restrict the activities of women to childbearing, and maintain a competitively higher birthrate. The authors suggest that no current community has managed to solve this paradox.”

See here..

Islam = the ultimate Darwinian success story?

Any answers to that one, guys?

Posted by Eurostatistician on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:16 | #

I’ve just scanned in the text of the above-mentioned paper and put it online—minus footnotes, tables and references (too much bother, also for copyright reasons).

You’ll find it here.

Worth reading from start to finish.

Posted by Lurker on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 12:39 | #

Sounds like our dilemma in a nutshell.

Try posting that on firedoglake!

Posted by Mark Richardson on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 13:00 | #

The future for women in an Islamic West? From today’s Melbourne Herald Sun:

Muslims trawl web for wives

Excerpt: “A Sunday Herald Sun investigation has found Muslim men are using the internet to attract second wives with promises of financial security.”

Posted by Al Ross on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 14:17 | #

“Muslim men are using the internet to attract second wives”

Yes, and when it’s time to divorce them they can now do so by way of an impressively succinct SMS : ‘Talak, Talak, Talak’.

Posted by Snouck on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 16:22 | #

A week ago the Dutch internal security service (AIVD) <a href= “http://snouck.blogspot.com/2006/03/dutch-internal-intelligence-service.html”> released</a> a report publishing its findings on Jihadi terrorist activity in the Netherlands. Groups like the “Hofstad” terror cell are amongst other things responsible for murdering filmmaker van Gogh.

The AIVD conclusion of the was similar to the one of the British official inquiry into the bombings. The Jihadi groups are grown in The Netherlands and target Dutch society. The Dutch Jihadi groups are looking to connect to International groups.

Snouck

Posted by Alan on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 20:24 | #

......A Whitehall source said: ‘The London attacks were a modest, simple affair by four seemingly normal men using the internet….

Oh! Well that’s OK then. Just four perfectly normal British lads having a day out. Nothing to worry about. 52 people lose their lives and it’s a modest, simple affair. I’m pleased you cleared that one up.

Posted by Desmond Jones on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:37 | #

The BNP is solving the problem…just expand the definition of who is white.

An ethnic minority BNP candidate standing in local elections in Bradford, West Yorkshire, yesterday insisted he would continue to campaign, with the support of BNP members, despite angry reactions from right-wingers and anti-racist activists.

Mr Gawad, whose grandfather was a Muslim convert to Christianity, yesterday defended the BNP’s repatriation policies. “We don’t call for Asians and coloureds to get out, but an end to immigration, whether it’s black, white, green or purple,” he said.

In 2004, BNP leader Nick Griffin was forced to abandon plans to allow non-white people to join the party after members objected en bloc.

BNP spokesman Phil Edwards yesterday said members who refused to accept Mr Gawad’s candidacy had no place in the party.

He said Mr Gawad fulfilled the BNP criteria of being ‘a member of the white European race of people’.

Gawad is supposedly Greek/Armenian.

The BNP is almost as amusing as Fawlty Towers.

“No, no, no, no,” said the Major. “I won’t have it. These people aren’t niggers. These people are wogs.”

Posted by RDC on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:31 | #

Second, Japan seems to have got it completely solved—it’s called not having open borders

Closed borders are the default setting. Attributing agency to Japn is like saying a person completely solved his/her puncture wound problem by not puncturing himself/herself in the first place.

Posted by Guessedworker on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:01 | #

Correct, RDC. The opening of borders to aliens is the prizing open of genetic integrity by those who do not believe in it - or believe in it but mean to destroy it.

Posted by Guessedworker on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:10 | #

A long near-news item on the BNP website claims that a specialised fifth bomb was to be set-off on 7/7 in the tube system beneath the Thames. If the roof of the tunnel had been pierced the entire inner network would have been flooded, with far more loss of life than in 9/11.

The report claims that a complete AQ unit was in charge of this part of the operation, but by pure chance it was stopped by uniform police in patrol cars hours before it was due to strike, and arrests were made.

The report states, “Within minutes of their notifying their superiors they were ‘swamped’ by plain-clothes police, Special Branch and/or MI5 officers and the whole affair was taken out of their hands. They were ordered to tell no-one about the incident and several who have since tried to find out what happened to the small group of Islamics they arrested have been unable to do so. The men have vanished without trace.”

Certain facts do fit with this account. But unless the MSM pick up the task of investigating it - and they won’t - it will remained unconfirmed speculation.

Posted by Al Ross on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 02:32 | #

GW is right to express scepticism regarding the liklihood of the MSM’s investigating this matter. They can be sporadically assiduous,eg in their ‘investigations’ of the BNP or acts of so-called ‘racism’ but for the most part they are incorrigibly lazy and complacent, ignoring viewpoints which dont comport with their diversity-plagued and ‘equality in racial degradation’ - style agenda.