Thursday, July 14, 2005

Burn London Like a Cross?

The Organisation of al-Qaeda Jihad in Europe claimed responsibility for the blasts. It stated:

"Heroic mujahideens carried out a sacred attack in London, and here is Britain burning in fear, terror and fright in the north, south, east and west."

This has led the media to suspect that those 4 suicide-bombers wanted to scar London with a burning cross a la the Ku Klux Klan's calling card. The four aimed to set off explosions in London’s north, south, east and west. They wanted to be revered as martyrs by fellow extremists.

As usual, those who encouraged them remains at large in the shadowy background like Osama bin Laden while sending those naïve, stupid and infamous 4, and well over 50 unsuspecting Londoners to their doom.

The CCTV in the subway system caught the four at London's King's Cross, boarding trains that headed off in different directions shortly before the three bombs went off near Aldgate, Edgware Road and Russell Square underground stations on Thursday. The fourth boarded a bus instead because the north-bound Northern Line was disrupted.

The bombers deliberately carried their personal documents to the scene of the blasts so that they could be identified and honoured as matyrs in the unmitigated slaughter. What f**king ego!

OK, they were primed by their outrage at the US attacks on Muslim countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the subsequent relevation of Muslim humiliation and torture at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and Bagram. As I have said before, these are real Muslim concerns, anger and simmering emotions. Unless the West (forget about the USA under Bush) deals with these issue objectively, then Islamist terrorism will continue.

But how in sh*t has the instigator or instigators (sh*t-stirrers) been able to convince these 4 to commit suicide? They weren’t from deprived backgrounds. In fact, if anything, they had a reasonably well balanced upbringing. Something for the psychologists!

3 comments:

  1. Because it isn't just what happens in the news, but a fundamental feeling of alienation, defensiveness and isolation from modern culture that many fundamentalists feel.

    For some that translates into rage and destructive ideology. Until modernity can resolve these issues, fundies will always find a reason to feel defensive, and strike back.

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  2. mate, you sound like Sigmund Freud ;-)

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  3. This sort of suicide bombings happens on a daily basis in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, but people worldwide are blinded by apathy to it.Its times like these, that in a relatively stable, peaceful environment a bomb goes off does everyone suddenly jolt up and take notice.

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