Incendiary Spots
Those places of the world where new recruits to global jihad are most likely to gravitate to and out of to infect and infest others parts of the world clearly now are Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. The original Saudi Arabian investment in Wahhabi-tinctured madrasses in Pakistan bred an army of committed jihadists eager to martyr themselves in the great cause of Islamism. But since then, no country has been overlooked in the gradual infestation of fundamentalist madrasses, from the countries of the East to Europe, to North America.Once Pakistan served its primary purpose, leading to its current situation of life-and-death existential response by the government and its military against a renascent Taliban, the Magreb offered up its auspices as ready breeding grounds. Stateless, lawless Somalia, with its wavering, weak, hardly-there government has been supplanted by Al Shabab in its southern extremes. And the allure of dedicated war and fascinating death-dealing has attracted recruits from near and wide.
Somalian refugees in dire need of rescue from their country's collapse fled to countries that in their great compassion, absorbed them. American authorities have been well alerted to the gradual sieving out of some of their young immigrants, travelling for excitement and adventure - and the opportunity to ascend to Paradise - to Somalia, land of their birth. Canada too can boast of having one of the largest Somalian diaspora communities in the West.
"Radicalization within the U.S. Somali community may be an indicator of similar processes at work in Canada", helpfully informed Canada's commissioner of the RCMP. "...The potential follow-on threat, from a Canadian and RCMP perspective, is Somali-Canadians who travel to Somalia to fight and then return, imbued with both extremist ideology and the skills necessary to translate it into direct action."
Direct action? What a quaint and rather opaque descriptive. Might he possibly mean that newly-inspired, enthused and empowered Somali-Canadian youth, bringing their newfound expertise in violent jihad may be inspired to demonstrate to Canada and Canadians their gratitude to the country for absorbing their parents and themselves, rescuing them from their desperate flight from a war-torn country?
Their embrace of the arrival of an Islamic state in the country of their birth, inspiring them to heed the call for global jihad among the ummah, the faithful diaspora, wherever they live, to expand and expansively create a universal Islamic empire. So that, like Mogadishu, new sharia-led laws inimical to human happiness and freedom may be installed. And where malefactors, those who refuse to surrender to the faith, may be summarily executed.
Perhaps not 'summarily', perhaps slowly, agonizingly painfully. Think stoned to death. think beheaded before a large and appreciative crowd of enthusiastic onlookers. Think garroted, dismembere, as a reward for recalcitrance.
Think we better pay more attention?
Labels: Religion, Terrorism, Traditions, World Crises
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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