Category: Europe

Liberal Sweden joins the club!

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That is, the club of Nations that have opened their borders to Muslim immigrants only to be attacked from within.

Sweden’s first Islamic terror attack

Sorry I didn’t get around to posting this sooner, I’ve been away.  But, I did read some early reports and noted that the Swedish press was dancing around the issue of whether this was a case of a Muslim immigrant attacking the country that had “welcomed the stranger.”

Here is an article from the Christian Science Monitor that actually makes the connection between an Islamic extremist and the issue of open borders by western countries to immigrants of all persuasions.   The CSM dares to mention the changing political landscape in heretofore Far Left Sweden.

Two explosions rocked central Stockholm Saturday evening in what Swedish police have called a terrorist attack.

One man, who appears to have been a suicide bomber, was killed, and two people were injured. The explosions occurred about ten minutes after a Swedish news agency and police received a threatening e-mail that referred to Sweden’s troops in Afghanistan and a Swedish cartoonist’s controversial 2007 depiction of the Prophet Muhammad.

The attacks bring the struggle with terrorism to Sweden, which until now has avoided the violent attacks that have taken place in other European nations.

[….]

Resentment toward Islam and Muslim immigrants is rising in Sweden, as in other European nations.

In September, the far-right Sweden Democrats won a surprising 20 seats in Parliament. The group is staunchly anti-immigration, and particularly against Muslim immigrants.

Here is our coverage from back in October about the Swedish elections.   I can always tell when something is happening in Sweden even before I see the news, because this old post, one of our most widely read posts, must be high on search engines.

Endnote! For the most thorough news on European radical Islamic activity visit Gates of Vienna (it is in our blogroll) regularly.  They were on top of the Swedish bomber story from the beginning (because they have contacts in Sweden).  I see they have posted this story from The Mail which has determined that the bomber, an Iraqi immigrant to Sweden, was educated in England.

And, be sure to read “Why Sweden?” by Robert Spencer at Frontpage Magazine, here.

Historic case in Virginia: Somali pirates found guilty

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Germany has a case too!

From  The Virginian Pilot:

In a historic decision Wednesday, a jury in federal court convicted five Somali nationals of piracy in the April 1 attack on the Norfolk-based frigate Nicholas.

They face mandatory terms of life in prison when they are sentenced March 14.

It’s the first time in nearly 200 years that a jury returned a guilty verdict in a piracy case in a U.S. court, a verdict that likely sets up years of appeals.

The Somalis – Mohammed Modin Hasan, Gabul Abdullahi Ali, Abdi Wali Dire, Abdi Mohammed Gurewardher and Abdi Mohammed Umar – all were found guilty of piracy under the law of nations and 13 related counts.

Germany’s modern-day piracy trial underway

From Reuters:

(Reuters) – Ten suspected Somali pirates captured during the hijacking of a German cargo ship in April went on trial in Hamburg Monday, in Germany’s first modern-day piracy trial.

We think we have compiled enough evidence,” said Wilhelm Moellers, spokesman for the Hamburg public prosecutor’s office. “We presented the court with 22 witnesses and a mass of material evidence, including the weapons used by the accused.”

He said the accused included seven adults and three young people who, once their exact age has been determined, could be tried under juvenile law and face lesser prison sentences of 10 years if convicted. The adults face 15-year sentences.

Boy, I guess if you are a Somali pirate and get caught you better hope the Germans catch you and not the Americans!

Bully busted in Belgium

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Well, he wasn’t busted for bullying, but for terrorist activity.   I told you back on March 9th that we had received a threatening e-mail—we being a whole bunch of American and European bloggers—from an Islamist who said:

i know you dislike that sharia is talking [he! he! he! guess he means taking!-ed] over the world, but that is a fact, so get used to it!

first great britain, now belgium, then the netherlands, and we will continue inshaallah until the rule of Allah swt is applied on the whole world!

We were honored to be included in the distinguished list of recipients of the e-mail.

Now comes word from the Jawa Report that the bully (oops alleged terrorist) who threatened us has been busted in Belgium.  Read all about it at the Jawa Report! and thanks for the tip!

Time magazine: Sweden deporting Iraqi Christians

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But, how many???

I saw the headline and read the story in Time entitled:  ‘Why Christian Iraqis are running scared—in Sweden.’  But I would like to know how many of those deported are Christians?  We know from many previous posts that Sweden is having a huge problem with Muslim immigrant populations in certain cities and that there is a growing ‘close the borders’ political movement in the former welfare mecca of Europe.  Just one recent story is here.

Here then is Time from Saturday:

With numerous attacks against Iraq’s Christians in recent weeks — including a Halloween day massacre in a Baghdad church, which left 52 dead — the country’s religious minority fears for its survival within the boundaries of the Middle Eastern nation. Yet, a long way from their native land, many Iraqi Christians are also living in terror in a far more serene place: Stockholm.

Swedish immigration officials have been deporting Iraqi refugees to Baghdad on flights about every three weeks, declaring that some of them have no legitimate claim to political asylum in Sweden. That includes Iraqi Christians — a category that does not automatically imply a risk of persecution, according to Swedish guidelines. Of the 80,000 or so Iraqi refugees in Sweden, about 6,000 of them are Christian, according to estimates by the Syriac Orthodox Church in Stockhold.

Read it all.

O.K. so there are 6,000 Iraqi Christians and 74,000 Iraqi Muslims in Sweden, but I cannot see where the article says how many of each batch of deportees are truly Christians.  I’m so cynical I think the Christians supposedly deported are used as a PR tool to stop all deportations.   Someone in Sweden, please give us the facts.

Off topic a little, but almost two years ago I reported that Time magazine wrote a politically correct version of the Rohingya illegal aliens story and completely ignored its own reporting from 2002 about Rohingya links to Islamic terrorism.  Bottomline, I don’t trust Time magazine’s reporting on immigration issues.

Comment worth noting: Britain gone wild with Somalis

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Readers, this is a comment from a reader to my previous post that is worth posting separately (prominently!) so you don’t miss it.

DP111 says:

Britain has allowed in over 300,000 Somalis, some 95% living on Welfare.

Even by East African standards, Somalis are “different”. Somali society is essentially a clan based nomadic society, with highway robbery playing a pivotal role in Somali economy – if one can call it that. Most travellers to that part of the world have written of the contempt and hostility of other East Africans, such as Kenyans and Ethiopians, for Somalis.

So we have, in the Great Multicultural Sweepstakes, imported hundreds of thousands of Somalis into Europe/West, without bothering to find out if they were even remotely capable of adjusting to civilisation?.

As Somalia deteriorated from nothing to below nothing, even highway robbers could not make a living in Somalia. So they have taken up piracy or fled to the West, which, in its unbounded idiocy has accepted these people. Look forward to violent robbery, and other cultural delights.

For Somalis, Britain is paradise – apart from free everything, they can practice their culture without being bothered by the police, as the police in Britain do not “do” robbery or burglary. They simply issue you with a crime number for insurance purposes.

Then we have this

Somali asylum seeker family given £2m house… after complaining 5-bed London home was ‘in poor area’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1293730/Somali-asylum-seeker-family-given-2m-house–complaining-5-bed-London-home-poor-area.html

In “All the trouble in the world”, 1994, P. J. O’Rourke, has a complete chapter on Somalia, and its well worth reading.

The general consensus of the marines deployed in Somalia at the time was to give Somalis more weapons and ammunition, and seal the borders.