From Newsweek, with thanks to Ali Dashti and RB:
The most fanciful park in Paris, and one of the least known, set among the city's poorest immigrant neighborhoods, is the Buttes Chaumont. A craggy mountain rises out of a taciturn lake, and a narrow path leads across what's called the "Bridge of Suicides." Muslim boys trained there last year for holy war in Iraq. Several were in their teens, born and raised in France, and many knew nothing more about guns and bombs than what they'd seen in movies. Some spoke no Arabic. But they heard the call to jihad that was raised by radical Islamist preachers, and they answered it. One died in Fallujah. Three are known to be imprisoned in Iraq, at least one of them in Abu Ghraib. Three others are jailed in France. One blew himself up in an attack on the road to Baghdad airport.The boys had little impact on the Iraq war. But they represent a growing threat to Europe-and, some studies suggest, to the United States. Over the last three years, starting even before the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the Jordanian terrorist Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi and groups close to him developed a sort of underground railroad to smuggle zealous fighters from Europe through Turkey and Syria into Iraq-and home again, if they survived. Now those recruits have been joined by a stream of young Islamists from Western Europe who are making their own way to the battlefield. Some are looking for Paradise as "martyrs," some just for street cred back home and some for serious combat experience in urban warfare. "Those who don't die and come back will be the future chiefs of Al Qaeda or Zarqawi [groups] in Europe," says French terrorism authority Roland Jacquard.
"We're watching very closely," says Gijs de Vries, the European Union's counterterrorism coordinator. "It only takes one or two dedicated individuals to create serious damage." All over Europe, in fact, investigators now face the threat of terrorists who are virtually self-taught, organized in groups with little or no central command and united by their obsession with the jihad against Americans in Iraq. "It has become a battle cry for Islamists around the world," says Michael Taarnby, author of a report on terrorist recruiting for the Danish Justice Ministry. Their most devastating blow to date was not inside Iraq but in Madrid last year, when a gruesome bombing spree killed 191 people in retaliation for Spain's presence in Iraq.
At a conference marking the anniversary of the Madrid atrocity last week, Robert Leiken of Washington's Nixon Center presented a provocative study of 373 radical Muslim terrorists arrested or killed in Europe and the United States from 1993 through 2004. His conclusion: some 87 percent are from immigrant backgrounds, but 41 percent are Western nationals, either naturalized, second generation or converts to Islam. "More French nationals were arrested than nationals of Pakistan and Yemen combined," says Leiken. While homegrown Muslim terrorists have so far been rare in the United States, in Europe they virtually recruit themselves, and Leiken points out that those who have European passports have almost open access to American territory through an ongoing visa-waiver program....
Because American immigration officials are afraid to face the realities of the global jihad. So they continue to pretend that this is a problem confined to certain nationalities, not to a religion, thus making it easier for a French Muslim to get into the United States than a Lebanese Christian. But which one of those is more likely to be part of a jihad group? (For those of you ready to tell me about Hilarion Capucci, note that I said "more likely.")
'Because American immigration officials are afraid to face the realities of the global jihad. So they continue to pretend that this is a problem confined to certain nationalities, not to a religion, thus making it easier for a French Muslim to get into the United States than a Lebanese Christian.' ~ JW
I would say this was even worse in Canada, Quebec in particular, but for multi-culti reasons. And while I don't know, I am willing to bet a Lebanese Christian would have a harder time getting into Canada than a French muslim.
CGW said I should post this in a few places??
so here it is?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/005303.php#comments
Posted by: nippon at March 12, 2005 12:51 PM
You get the Gold Star for the Day!!
Gary see what you started ??
Some people are blind for their nose??
As I told CGW I would rather have an enemy in front then on my 6??
If we look at history we will find that without Russia we would not have won WW2 we had let Germany advance to far before we got in the WAR??
Now ask yourself did we like what Russia did to their own people? No and I would go as far as to say HELL No?
But we got them to see the threat was against them too!! and did Fight with them and when the war was over and we had won we both went to our corners?
Now spiting in Peoples faces will only make them your enemys and prove what they think of you??
If a KKK member or Neo Nazi falls and say breaks his neck does he ask who the surgen is or will he deal with it??
Does the Doctor not treat the person before he knows what tribe he comes from??
So sad that geiff likes to shoot his wad early??
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength, Wisdom, Sight, and Courage to Stay the course to Destroy ALL islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Amen
Posted by: Catherine at March 14, 2005 07:14 PM
you ask what Nipon said??
Kelley,
Although I cannot speak for Catherine, she's not Antisemitic.
Look at her statements:
1."makes you wonder why none of them talked about the Black mulsums??"
Well, my interpretation:
It's an ironic statement concerning the irrational logic of white supremacists that they only blame the jews.
2."It would be smart to educate these people on the Threat and when the fighting starts fight together when we win then go back to our own corners and figure what to do as we have been for years???"
My interpretation she wants to say: What silly morons they are that they don't recognize that there's no Zionist plot but rather a jihad front in every part of the world.
I think shangalla is right. Catherine often spoke about judeo-christian values she's just a bit confusing.
Posted by: nippon at March 12, 2005 12:51 PM
Below is a link to a article in which CAIR
insults Canadians just because Shariah-Law is being debated in public and now showing resistance
for it based on world application in Muslim Countries.
http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=2addbee5-8515-4c99-8fec-c81941cd5ffa
Quebec was also attacked by CAIR for their policy of wanting immigrants accept the Laws of Canada and not expect to live by the Laws in the Country they left.
One main reason for this well founded fear of
Islamic extremism that's showing up on Universities campus and ay many anti-American protests.
Below is the story of a Quebec Muslim male that went on a Jihad to slaughter 14 females trying to get a higher education at a school mainly male
students.
The media avoided exposing the truth about Gamil Gharbi until a reporter did so 10 years after the event.
Note how he changed his name to blend in and earn the trust of the students he would later kill for Allah through Jihad and suicide.
Click TAB "Did you know" and click Page 2.
and see his history and violent Algerian Father
that was a Muslim.
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-70-398-2237/disasters_tragedies/montreal_massacre/clip3
CAIR demands Shariah-Law for female Muslims in Canada and now CAIR is resorting to namecalling
for anyone opposed to it in Canada.
NO, Catherine, no alliance with Nazis. Sorry.
Learn grammar and punctuation.
Geoff
Hands up who hates Muslims?
Timbo, my hand's down if you mean Muslims in general. If you ask, who hates Islam, both hands are up. I hate all falsehood, but since God was merciful to me when I was sunk in falsehood, I owe it to Him to try to be as merciful as I can be to others.
Geoff, I'm with you on no alliance with the Nazis. It'd be leaving the frying pan for the fire.
Western Europe not only has radical Islamicist preachers, but also a large and influential intellectual class that has never forgiven the USA for denying it the honor of working under the progressive, enlightened supervision of Stalin after World War II. Had those kids been born a generation earlier, they'd have been Bader-Meinhof or Red Brigades or Fighting Communist Cells. And as for North America, we've got plenty of our own nihilists in places of influence, too, and gullible minds both young and old ready to follow them.