Spencer: Why Sweden?

In today's Front Page, I ask the burning question: why Sweden?

Why did Islamic jihadist Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly, the suicide bomber who killed himself on a major street in Stockholm on Saturday, decide to target Sweden, of all places -- one of the most benign multiculturalist welfare states on a continent full of them?

For even though no one was killed, that was apparently only because al-Abdaly didn't set off his bomb at the intended time or place. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said the bombing was a "most worrying attempt at terrorist attack in crowded part of central Stockholm," and noted that it "failed -- but could have been truly catastrophic."

And certainly that seems to have been the intent. In an audio file in Arabic and Swedish that was sent to TT, the Swedish news agency, about ten minutes before Al-Abdaly detonated his bomb, the unidentified speaker exhorted "all Mujahadeen in Europe and Sweden" to act: "Now is the time to strike, don't wait any longer. Step up with whatever you have, even if it is a knife, and I know you have more than a knife. Fear no one, fear not prison, fear not death."

Why would an Islamic jihadist want to unleash catastrophic mass-murder upon mild, sclerotic, socialist old Stockholm? Reuters [1] had a ready answer: the same audio file, it reported, "threatened retaliation for Sweden's military presence in Afghanistan."

Ah. So if Sweden withdrew its military personnel from Afghanistan, no more jihad would be waged against it, right? That is certainly an assumption often taken for granted by Western analysts on both the Left and the Right: Islamic jihadists are provoked by our presence in their countries, and if we just left them alone, they'd leave us alone.

It is a comforting notion, at least to those who are so supine and addicted to their comfort that they'll sacrifice their freedom for it, but unfortunately for them, there was more in that audio file.

"Our acts will speak for themselves," said the message, "as long as you do not end your war against Islam and humiliation of the Prophet and your stupid support for the pig Vilks."

"The pig Vilks" is the Swedish cartoonist who drew the dog Muhammad: taking umbrage at the threats and murders of innocent people that followed the publication of cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper, Lars Vilks published his own cartoon of Muhammad as a dog with a human head. Islamic supremacists have put Vilks high on their hit list; last spring, he was attacked while he was giving a talk in Uppsala, and jihadists also tried to burn his house down....

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On our TV the bomber was mentioned with the email about Afghanistan. No mention of Vilks, the real motivation for the bombing.
Swedes and Europe and the rest of the non-Muslim world why should we go around with the fear of bombing? Simple solution, no muslims, no bombing. Let the extremists bomb each other in their own lands.

I hope that Vilks makes a derisive cartoon about the bomber.

And the inevitable connection with the UK.. Bomber had links with Lutonistan.

Where else?

The Lars Vilks cartoon of moha-mutt was published in 2007. Three Swedish newspapers re-published it in March this year, but only after the "Jihad Jane" murder plot against Vilks.

I should have added
...and the March 9th 2010 arrests in Ireland of seven muder conspiracy suspects.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8558022.stm

For information and images, there's loads on the Tundra Tabloids site http://tundratabloids.com/

P Condell only a couple of weeks ago to any uninformed
states on youtube, muslims in Sweden, are getting so blatant, so arrogant, so secure, so empowered, by establishment cowardice, that they feel they are justified in doing anything, against the country that gives them...home, benefits, security etc.
and thus...here we are.
today, here in the UK, the bbc, news, is so so minimal, on this(less than a minute/this er "terrorist" attack, must be the "bombing buddhists" again eh!..on live news at the time danish cartoons/even jihadi mentioned....but ever since... all of that info is airbrushed away)
& then... surprise surprise, then spends
10 minutes, discussing whether that old koran guy terry jones, should be allowed to enter the uk,( must be "parity" ?? obviously :-D,
the ins & outs of how the uk gov should be bar him, racism, incitement, the perceived offence minimalisation,(can hardly believe it)
this nonsense has continued still even this morning same thing, even when its found this muslim (would be) mass-murderers family home was...drum roll!
luton uk, from where he was advertising for a second wife,("for sound economic reasons" apparently)
what next i suppose next sufferance from some pseudo-scholar, on er..islamaphobia to set off everyones bullsh-t detector
.....can t type any more...
"when ignorance again allows it to happen here,(it IS only a matter of time)"

As No-moh says Muslims are becoming 'so arrogant, so secure, so empowered, by establishment cowardice, that they feel they are justified in doing anything, against the country that gives them a home, benefits, security etc.'

Europe also gives Muslims the opportunity to travel widely, settle where they will, attend university in one town while leaving their family in another all carefully calculated to extort maximum benefits from the state. Shifting addresses also enables terrorists to stay under the police radar until they are ready to attack.

The BBC Swedish correspondent was questioned at length on the suicide attack and the fact that a Muslim was involved had to be wrenched out of him. According to Pat Condell this type of dumbing down and political correctness is rife in Sweden to the extent that the many rapes that take place there are not attributed to immigrants which, as everyone knows, gives Sweden the title of 'rape capital of Europe'.

It is only with the grace of God that we have survived all these numerous attempt..the sad thing is they are hell bent on trying and they are bound to score one and needless death and agony will be inflicted upon us. God help us convert these peaople to your path and save us from our fellow clueless "tolerance romantic" countrymen/women.

Mr Spencer:

In answer to the headline, Why not Sweden?

It's the next to check off from their list of targets of jihad/Islamization.

True but I think it should be Lutonabad. His wife and 2 children live there and he was looking for a second wife. Now he has 72.
What gets me is the way they say he was a "Swede" adding "of Iraqi origin" when he was an Iraqi - probably a "refugee" - who hardly ever lived there. Now I suppose the UK taxpayer will have to support his family.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=news&cd=1&ved=0CCUQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-1337930%2FSweden-bomb-probe-Stockholm-blast-suicide-bomber-radicalised-Luton.html%3FITO%3D1490&ei=2_QFTemgNcLDswagw4SICg&usg=AFQjCNG3WfVxwLDkMNyPxXaN3HtizPNfJQ&sig2=q6Bpm3SivCM2FrNmCCXUxw

BBC are slow starters. TV broadcast news at 10:00 GMT does have reasonable coverage of Stockholm bomber with interview in Luton of neioghbours and in studio of security correspondent Frank Gardner. The Pastor Terry Jones has by contrast far too much coverage. I think it's because a cabinet minister (Home Secretary) has given them access and they've rolled oveer to have their tummy tickled. Terry Jones may well be refused entry to the UK, not because he has said or done anything to merit such treatment, but because the government wants to exude an air of impartiality after having excluded Islamofascists such as Omar Bakri Mohammed and Zakir Naik. False equivalence.

Why Sweden?

Predators go after the herbivores that seem sick or fragile. That's how it's been since Adam and Eve got kicked out of the garden. Something tells me that if Westerners learned how to say "no" once again, a lot of this wouldn't be happening.

I agree that Pastor Terry Jones is getting too much coverage but the establishment and the BBC are lining up the EDL for "the treatment". There are regular reports about the "extreme right wing EDL" and attempts to stop non-muslim minorities joining it. This weekend an early Sunday morning broadcast featured a Jewish speaker warning of its dangers.

The truth is they are terrified of a broad-based non-political multicultural movement resisting islam and need to confine its membership to the lower end of the working class. It is interesting that the mouthpiece the BBC use is the "Hope not Hate" outfit whereas the state and union funded anti-BNP organisation "Searchlight" stays out of sight.


OT but appropriate for the season http://tundratabloids.com/2010/12/the-first-day-of-winter.html

It was waddling like a duck, it quacked like a duck and it looked like a duck, het the Swedish official still said that one should not jump to the conclusion that it WAS a duck.

This official literally said, even after they had found the muslim terrorist blown apart by his own explosives fortunately, that we should not conclude it was a "terrorist" attack.

Lets stop the spread of the cancer now, even if it means some amputations have to be made.

I am sooooooooooo fed up!

BBC broadcast an interview with Hype-and-Hate director Nick Lowles.

Nick Lowles is also editor of Searchlight, a British "anti-fascist" magazine. The magazine is published by Gerry Gable and was founded by the late Maurice Ludmer a lifelong communist.

I have a shrewd suspicion that if every muslim in the world was a catholic they would run around beating people to death with crucifixes including each other.Who agrees with me?

BBC coverage of EDL always implies that EDL cause the problem and they quote number of arrests at each incident, never breaking the number down to reveal that the majority of those arrested are from UAF (soi disant anti fascists).

Catholics perpetually feel guilt, whereas Muslims never feel guilt.

Why Sweden? Simple two fold answer...Jihad and close proximity...The rest is details, where the Devil is...

In an Islamic country, Vilks would not have been published, but if his drawing was ever discovered, he'd be executed. Under Sharia, it's blasphemy to mock Mohammad. a capital crime.
The fact that Sweden protects his freedom of mockery is a provocation which results in a declaration of war against all Swedes.
The tenets of Sharia form the cultural barriers to true democracy in Islamic countries, not the absence of opposition parties or democratic infrastructures. That was Bush's basic misunderstanding.

Why Sweden? Well the muslims originally came as settlers and now as conquerers and they see that the indigenous peoples are civilized (weak) and ready for the taking! So they stay and drain the coffers of the host nation until it crumbles.

Two years ago, I wrote "Amsterdam 2012" about the murder of an avant-garde theater group murdered in Amsterdam by Islamists, which sparks riots, then civil war throughout Europe, leading to a Eurabian War. It is distressing to see what I wrote as fiction becoming fact. I see the situation is reaching a breaking point. I stand in fear and awe, helpless.

http://www.amazon.com/Amsterdam-2012-ebook/dp/B0034KYZWW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1292244899&sr=1-1

If as you state, the tenets of Sharia form the cultural barriers to true democracy in islamic [my lower case i] countries, what is the point of western nations even bothering to try to develop trading and cultural ties with the likes of Pakistan, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, etc ad infinitum? There can be neither trust nor mutual respect. Despite Louis Armstrong singing 'it's a wonderful world' the future is actually catastrophic. Happy Christmas ...

Why Sweden? Forgive my parochial approach, but it is in Sweden that the Jews of Malmo are fleeing for safety from the violence of the Muslims, while the police look on and do nothing.

My advice to Sweden, and all Western countries is this. If you want to be protected from the Muslims, start by doing what you could/would not do in the '40's. Protect your Jews.

Why did Islamic jihadist Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly, the suicide bomber who killed himself on a major street in Stockholm on Saturday, decide to target Sweden...

1) He was there for the welfare.

2) Joyous religions really irk Moslems, a joyless folk who take umbrage at Infidel happiness (much like Joy Behar does).

Mass murder is the natural option for these multicultural people, these Moslems, appointed by the EU ruling elites to be an anchor in the diversity spectrum shining and glittering in the hoiday rainbow there.

@meekee - Good point. I would say that there should be limits to our commitments to Muslim countries, that the sort of expensive nation-building efforts we've undertaken in Iraq and Afghanistan are vain, but that having ties beneficial to us are useful.
Subverting Islam is the most useful activity we can undertake.

if these islamists want us out of their countries, why not get out of our countrys! you know the door is open for them to leave. the EU could do this with welfare reform, and a steady plane load of parasitic islamists going to Mecca!

"Sweden's prime minister on Sunday urged the country to "stand up for tolerance" after a botched terrorist attack "

Typical dhimmi reaction - never any criticism of the ideas that inspire Islamic terrorism. Is there anyone in Western governments anywhere asking Muslims to be tolerant? Tolerance is not part of the Islamic ethos, intolerance is. The Swedes have been about the most tolerant toward Muslim immigrants of any European country and now they got a thank you. I think the Swedes ought to be very embarrassed: Pat Condell explains:

http://www.youtube.com/patcondell#p/a/u/0/zZtc2ma2GEQ

if these islamists want us out of their countries, why not get out of our countrys!

Excellent point, Ike. Why are they here? The reason we are there is because they attacked, so we retaliated. But why are they here? We don't need them, nor do we need their welfare fraud drain on our resources; and after all their murderous mischief mayhem, we don't want them. We'll 'get out of their countries' as soon as they get out of ours. Insh'Allah, they leave soon, not soon enough. Then, once they're gone, true multiculturalism tolerance can once again be reinstated for a true future World Peace.
God Bless.

Bob, you have yet to understand the minds of those who follow Islam as their life philosophy ! If the so called Prophet himself acted treacherously to achieve his goal then what do you expect his followers to do ? They are bound to take citizenship of soft democracies like Sweden , England , France , Netherland ! However , when it comes to "Jihad" they are Muslims first and Swedes , if at all , thereafter ! Such treachery by Muslims has happened time and again in India , England , Spain , Russia , France, USA and many other countries. If History does not teach anything to us then , Bob , it is our fault ! Just come to India and study the havoc caused my the Muslims in India for the last 1000 years ! In spite of this Islamic history of thousands of years our 80-years old ruling political party Congress has been treating them with love for the sake of the Muslim vote-bank ! What a tragedy !

Muslims have minds? You jest, surely? All 'thinking' is done by the mullahs, if you can call it thinking.The zombies do as they are told.

He was anxious to push the global jihad into high speed to impose Sharia law and guarantee Muslim privilege and the "right" (under Sharia law) to plunder and rape and murder non-Muslims.

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