Hello, Mullah, Hello, Faddah...
An AP story about summer camp for the Islam-inspired killers festering in Britain:
Clad in mud-smeared combat fatigues, the young Muslims trained on picturesque British farmland, hurling imaginary grenades, wielding sticks as mock rifles and chopping watermelons in simulated beheadings.A four-year inquiry, which came to a close Tuesday with guilty pleas from the last two of seven gang members, has exposed a network of alleged British terrorism training camps meant to prepare recruits for mass murder.
Security officials believe hundreds of men — including a gang that made a failed attempt to bomb London's transit network — passed through camps set up across the English countryside.
..."The exposure to that ideology — that radicalism, that extremism, that 'them-and-us' mind set — starts here on our streets in Britain," a former extremist, Ed Husain, told Britain's first police counterterrorism conference in Brighton.
Husain said British officials had been too tolerant of Islamic radicalism taught in universities and mosques during the 1980s and '90s.
Whoopsy!
Sigh.
We're right numpties at times. I blame it on guilt, we feel so bad for all the evil things we did. We deserve to be punished or something like that.
Bleh. Well I know were I stand in the upcoming war. Problem is I think it's going to be up against a wall....
Simon Proctor at February 29, 2008 2:34 AM
I'm confused. I thought there was no such thing as Islamic extremism in the U.K.? Weren't we told that the problem was actually due to ANTI-Islamic extremists who were perverting and distorting the true nature of Islam?
Gosh, it's a comlicated world. Maybe if we just act really, really, really nice they'll stop trying to kill us.
Snoop Diggity-DANG-Dawg at February 29, 2008 5:51 AM
Maybe we are afflicted with a kind of public insanity. The Brits have made it illegal for a subject to possess a gun, apparently on the premise that killing and other crime isn't possible without them. Consequently, crime has increased, and the general public must depend on police, conspicuous, increasingly militarized and becoming more distant culturally from the people they are supposed to defend every day. When Muslims burn and kill, the police will be held harmless as their people die.
Radwaste at February 29, 2008 6:03 AM
The Brits need to hire Amy as their religious/international policies director. None of this "Islamic smnmer camp" bullshit for her!
And how freakin sad is it that the powers that be seek to deprive United States citizens from their right to bear arms? All so we can have a mess like this one? They can have my guns when they pry my cold dead fingers from them. But I want to be buried with my sword and long bow. o_O
Flynne at February 29, 2008 7:47 AM
It seems alarming, yet if that is the only training they do, I am not too concerned. Sounds like stuff my friends and I would do (playing army) when we were boys. They (radicals) will always find a spot to squat for awhile. There are militia's in America "training". We have our own version of radical here, so while we continue to allow anyone to be able to call America home - on it goes. Looking into my crystal ball, I can foresee their attempts will ultimately backfire, because if they continue (successfully for awhile) on their terror training and missions, Americans will bring out their true aggression just as covertly. We are the biggest bullies on the block and every Muslim will fear the consequences brought about by their radical counterparts. I'm being factual not threatening, just take a look back at what we did to the Japanese that were citizens here during the conflict with Japan. If they think they are being discriminated against now...better ask Allah.
kbling at February 29, 2008 7:59 AM
kbling makes a good point. If you have a choice over where your terrorist is trained always pick the UK (preferably the mainland) because chances are they won't have ever been near a real weapon in their lives.
Heck the last lot of 'terrorists' we had managed to pass out due to petrol fumes or set themselves on fire.
Much less terrifying than when the US was funding terrorist attacks on us...
Simon Proctor at February 29, 2008 8:17 AM
"...US was funding terrorist attacks on us..."
Payback for burning down the Whitehouse.
winston at February 29, 2008 9:35 AM
But I want to be buried with my sword and long bow.
I heart Flynne.
Also, for style purposes alone, I'd like to live in a compound defended by a team of hot armed women in catsuits and cat-eye masks.
I'll leave the pussy joke here to Treacher, in case he's around.
Amy Alkon at February 29, 2008 9:39 AM
In other news, ,,,,,
PARIS, France (AP) -- The body of Katoucha Niane, one of the first African women to attain international stardom as a model and a vocal opponent of female genital mutilation, was found in the Seine River, police said Friday.
Crid at February 29, 2008 9:59 AM
I just read that on CNN. Excuse me if I doubt that this woman, who is a beautiful and healthy-looking and just a few years older than I am, took a fall and ended up in the Seine.
Amy Alkon at February 29, 2008 10:04 AM
A photo:
http://tinyurl.com/25jlae
Amy Alkon at February 29, 2008 10:06 AM
Wikipedia says: "She lived in a houseboat on the Seine, near the Alexander III bridge in Paris."
Can you imagine how fucking cool that would be? I didn't even know people could do that. It's like being about to through birthday parties in the spire of the Chrysler building or something
Crid at February 29, 2008 10:06 AM
Sounds like stuff my friends and I would do (playing army) when we were boys.
Yes, kbling, you and my brothers and their friends, too. The difference being, you didn't have older men impressing upon you visualization techniques: "Yes! You are maiming the infidel, praise Allah!" "Now stick him in the eye, may Allah guide your hand so your aim is true!" "Go! Go! Thwart the pig dog infidel, may Allah bless you with a strength beyond that of your enemies!"
Big difference there, my friend, may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your crotch, Allah be willing! o_O
Flynne at February 29, 2008 10:12 AM
Katoucha Niane
Nice photo; damn, she's hot for a woman only a few years younger than me. I've got to make more time to get my sorry ass to the gym!
Flynne at February 29, 2008 10:16 AM
Please Flynne, I was making light of them practicing with sticks and watermelons - sounded childish to me. I have been trained by the military. Of course they are going to use the hate mongering to get their "troops" motivated. The Army does it.
kbling at February 29, 2008 10:46 AM
Kbling, I was teasing, I knew you knew that! o_O
Flynne at February 29, 2008 10:55 AM
"Also, for style purposes alone, I'd like to live in a compound defended by a team of hot armed women in catsuits and cat-eye masks."
Nah. Just Elektra.
Radwaste at February 29, 2008 6:25 PM
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