Cognitive Dissonance
Suicide Rafters?!?
ONE MONTH BEFORE MURDER The London bombers Shehzad Tanweer, 22, circled front, and Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, circled making a V sign, are photographed on a team-building exercise in Wales on June 4, a month before their suicide attacks. Also in the raft is Naveed Fiaz, 29, who is being questioned by bombing investigators, and a 32-year-old volunteer at an Islamic bookshop in Leeds (MIRRORPIX)
London bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, boasted ...to his cousin his ambition to become a “holy warrior”. At his father’s home village 30 miles from Faisalabad, Mohammad Saleem described yesterday how Tanweer, 22, hero-worshipped Osama bin Laden.
Mr Saleem supported his cousin’s bombing at Aldgate station which killed seven people, saying: “Whatever he has done, if he has done it, then he has done right.” He recalled how Tanweer argued with family and friends about the need for violent retaliation over US abuse of Muslim prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
Senator Diick Durbin? Here’s your sign.
THE mother of [London terrorist bomber] Jermaine Lindsay [19] ...Maryam McCleod Ismaiyl, 39 ...Dressed in a burka, through which only her bespectacled eyes could be seen, she said: “I don’t know whether that was my son. Neither I nor his wife have been able to identify him.”
...He had adopted the name Jamal when he converted to Islam. He later married Samantha Lewthwaite, who also converted to Islam, and the couple had a child. Mrs Ismaiyl added that her son converted to Islam shortly after she joined the faith four years ago. She said she had seen him last year: “I respected and admired him so very much because he was so responsible when I last saw him.
Four years? He got that psycho in four years?!?!? yikes.
..."The religion that I love and practised with Jamal is a religion of peace and justice, it is a balanced religion that does not condone or entertain extremism. Extremism is a newly invented matter and all newly invented matters lead to the hell’s fire."
Are you talking about Islam or the Amish?
And yet, there’s hope.
London - The British government is drawing up a list of Muslim extremists to be deported from this country or kept from entering it in the first place. ...include radical clerics who engage in behavior such as preaching or running a website that is “intended to foment or provoke terrorism."
Sound good, eh? ...wait.
...[Home Secretary Charles] Clarke also announced that the government of Jordan has tentatively agreed not to torture any such returnees to that country. In the past, following the European Convention of Human Rights, British courts have refused to deport people back to countries whose governments engaged in torture.
..."I am not personally in favor of deportation,” [Prince Hassan of Jordan] said. “I think they [the deportees] should be tried in Britain and restraining orders would evolve into due processes of law.”
Hassan, King Abdullah II’s uncle, suggested that an international commission should oversee the process.
Heh—they don’t want ‘em either. So, Tony Blair—you wanna be a popu-dumping ground? Y’all got the room?
Omar Bakri Mohammed last night admitted he hates Britain — after learning he will escape deportation under tough new curbs on Muslim extremists.
The Government’s own Human Rights Act means the cleric cannot be sent back to his Syrian homeland in case he faces torture or execution there.
...Bakri even likened non-Muslim religions to devil worship ...Bakri said: “I would call the Muslim community ... I believe co-operation with the British police would never, ever prevent an action like these.”
...[Bakri] will NOT be thrown out even though his right to live here will be revoked.
He hates everything British. He thinks Christians are devil worshipers. He would hide terrorist bombers from police. He wants more death and destruction, bombing and maiming upon the British peoples—and they’re keeping him saaaafe from torture in his own home country. Codependent much?
PM Tony Blair? Here’s your sign.
And it’s not just the Brits:
...mostly shrapnel wounds...exposed tendons and bones ...hearing damage ...two chunks of my leg that were missing quite a bit of skin, and then my hand was sliced open.”
...And how do they feel about those responsible for the attack?
“I feel horrible for them,” Katie Benton said. “I feel so much pity for them, that ... anybody could be that lost to think that kind of violence actually has any kind of productive effect."
Ladies? Sentaor Gore? Here’s your sign.
Nobody writes like you! This was great cognitive dissonance all right. Left my head ringing.
And those loonies from Tennessee. Do you think it’s something in the water over there?
Posted by dymphna on 07/27/05 at 06:54 PMThank you, Dymphna.
As they say, “It’s the water… and a lot more.”
Posted by Claire on 07/29/05 at 07:03 PM
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