As is so often the case with the Balkans, analysts are quick to attribute the problem of jihadist activity to the influence of "Wahhabism," though without accounting for why the Wahhabists' teachings resonate so readily with what we were told were peaceful, secularized, tolerant Muslims. To suppose otherwise, of course, raises the specter of there being something about Islam, even among our modern, moderate "friends and allies" that is not of the Wahhabists' invention, but nonetheless generates acts like the one described below.
In any event, however, the West in general, and NATO countries in particular, are dismally willing to stand idly by while Saudi petrodollars fund an Islamic revival, complete with its inherent problems of Sharia law and jihadist doctrine, in the Western pet project comprised by the Muslim components of the former Yugoslavia. At the root of that inaction are two issues: the economic blackmail of dependence on oil, and the politically correct article of faith that Islam must be a "Religion of Peace"... if people would just stop "misunderstanding" it.
"Bosnia: Suspected Islamist bombing 'the beginning' say experts," from AdnKronos International, June 28:
Sarajevo and Belgrade, 28 June (AKI) - Sunday's bloody bombing of a police station in Bosnia in a suspected radical Islamist attack is only the beginning of a wave of violence in Bosnia, terrorism experts said on Monday.
Police have arrested at least five people over the attack in the central town of Bugojno, in which one person was killed and six wounded.
Among those arrested was Haris Causevic, who admitted planting the explosive device near a police station in the town 75 kilometres northwest of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.
Causevic is believed to be a member of the fundamentalist Islamic Wahabi Islamist movement. Benevolence towards Wahabism by Bosnian authorities have allowed it to radicalise supporters and plot violence, according to Galijasevic and other terrorism experts.
Local politicians have for too long treated Wahabi groups propagating violent Islam with excessive tolerance, Bosnian terrorism expert Dzevad Galijasevic, told Adnkronos International (AKI).
"This (attack) was to be expected and it is just the beginning," Galijasevic, who is a Muslim, told AKI.
"Bosnia has a very stormy period ahead," he warned.
Galijasevic said about five percent of Bosnia's 1.5 million Muslims had been indoctrinated by Wahabi ideology, but the number of their supporters may be about 12 per cent of the population.
Though Wahabism is considered a radical religious movement in Bosnia, Wahabis are playing a central role in terrorist activities in the Musim-majority country, according to Galijasevic.
"Their activities have nothing to do with religion," he said.
There had been scores of murders and terrorist activities in Bosnia, but local authorities have played these down as "isolated incidents and ordinary crime," Galijasevic said.
"Bosnia-Herzegovina simply isn't ready to explicitly call it terrorism, although western intelligence agencies are pefectly aware of what's going on," he stated.
Galijasevic claimed radical Islam had a strong supporter in wartime Bosnian Muslim president Alija Izetbegovic and current Muslim member of the joint state presidency Haris Silajdzic, who condemned Sunday's bombing as an attack on the state.
Galijasevic heads a non-governmental southeast European counter-terrorist organisation with Serbian expert on terrorism Darko Trifunovic and a Croatian Domagoj Margetic.
They have frequently warned that Bosnia has become a European hotbed of radical Islam and Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist activities.
Trifunovic agreed that most of Bosnian Muslim leaders have ignored the activities of radical Islamists and played down their terrorist activities.
Not to mention playing down their having anything to do with "religion."
"We have been highlighting this problem for years, but no one paid attention," he told AKI.
Attacks such as the one in Bugojno were the "logical consequence" of ignoring the security threat posed by Wahabism, he said.
"I'm afraid this is not the end," Trifunovic said.
Willful ignorance by the non-muslims and sympathy by the infiltrated police force give free reign to the mainstream wahabist muslims who plan to terrorize any and all in their vicinity. Please don't call them extremists anymore. They are normal everyday, actively involved muslims who do their proscribed duty to promote islamic hegemony.
. . . "without accounting for why the Wahhabists' teachings resonate so readily with what we were told were peaceful, secularized, tolerant Muslims."
Yeah, well said.
Spencer does an excellent job in "Islam Unveiled" of showing how the reason Wahhabism goes down smooth for Muslims who haven't had much contact with it is not so much because of the heft of Saudi petrodollars as the fact that it constitutes a very convincing reading of the core texts.
"Their activities have nothing to do with religion," he said.
That IS true. After all, mahoundianism, just like nazism and communism, isn't a religion, but a murderous political ideology. The only difference between the aforementioned ideologies is that Hitler, Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao never claimed to be prophets.
I suggest that Bill Clinton be sent to reason with these guys. And, of course, we know how far reasoning gets with jihadists. Clinton's the guy who's primarily responsible for making this mess possible. His nose should be rubbed in it. Madeleine Albright should be forced to go with him and both should be told not to come back until the damage they caused is undone. If anything untoward happens to them while they're there I would send my heartfelt condolences, maybe even FTD some flowers.
I'm with "imamerican" on this.
Mohammadan ideology is political and effectively uses the religious cult side of it to creep into our societies, enjoy tax-free status and pound the hell out of our rights and freedoms using every trick in the Islamic Jihadists Guidebook. Then, when they don't get their way or feel offended by cartoons, or name-calling, they resort to their terrorist agenda, as Mohammad so aptly laid it out in his "Memoirs of a Madman"(Qur'an and Hadith).
Well suggested Eastview. Until some of the actors such as Clinton and Albright accept personal responsibility by admitting they were wrong and urging a reversal then the train will keep hurtling towards the chasm.
Well said Wowsher and Eastview...I can just picture Clinton, like Henry II, struggling his way down the Via Dolorosa in Kosovo, bearing on his shoulder the gold-plated statue of himself.
The West is now run by the Saudis via their Big Oil/Rockefeller partners. The Rockefellers have always wanted a ONE-WORLD system since they donated the land upon which the UN stands. They may not have wanted that ONE-WORLD to be Islamic originally, but "it works for them!"
[quote]Their activities have nothing to do with religion," he said.
That IS true. After all, mahoundianism, just like nazism and communism, isn't a religion, but a murderous political ideology. The only difference between the aforementioned ideologies is that Hitler, Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao never claimed to be prophets.[/quote]
Hmmmm! But didn't Marx actually claim to be a prophet in the style of Hegel via "dialectical materialism" and the related "inevitability" argument. . . secularization (scientification) of faith/religion.
On Julia Gorin's Blog there is a very informative article about a raid on a radical islamics Bosnian town back in February and other comments about the area, its history and its ties to radical islam.
Check it out.
http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/
Every schoolkid that's had to study History at any level/grade knows that WW1 was preciptated by the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. As a curio for anyone with an interest in that period and region, hugh may get some food for thought from this sepia-toned diary http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Serbia/Trajic_01.htm
Apolologies, last link should read
http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Serbia/Tragic_01.htm
And our United States of America and Europe murdered Serb Christians and destroyed their places of worship for those jihadis!
The Western democracies act exactly the way the Bible describes the acts of the Philistines, past, present and future. They are now ripping the harvest of the seeds of evil they had planted into the blood-soaked soil of Serbia.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.