söndag 12 december 2010

Cherry popper - How will the aftermath of Sweden's first suicide bombing play out?

There is a first for everything, the first time you have sex, your first reefer, your first hangover. If you liked the sensation, you want to experience it again. If you didn't, you take precautions so as to not having to experience whatever it was that caused you discomfort again. For instance, if you like sex but not STDs, you put on a condom.

Speaking of firsts, as nation Sweden just had it's suicide bombing-cherry popped. Yesterday we experienced our first serious terrorist attack in many years and our first Islamist suicide attack ever. A suicide bomber targeting civilians blew himself up in central Stockholm. Fortunately the bomber only managed to set off one of the pipe bombs in his suicide vest and thus only managed to kill himself while slightly wounding two others.

A car filled with propane tanks was also set alight nearby. The Swedish right-wing blog Politiskt Inkorrekt identifies the car's owner as Taimour Abdulwahab from Tranås, Sweden. An email containing threats in Arabic and Swedish against Swedish civilians in general and Lars Vilks in particular was reportedly received by the Swedish Security Police ten minutes before the attack.

Based upon my previous experience (my suicide bombing cherry was popped quite some time ago) with the aftermath of Islamist terror attacks, I predict the following reaction within Sweden's Muslim community:

a) Outright support for the attack.

b) Denial, people will claim that the attack was carried out by the CIA or the Jews.

c) Condemnation.

Many Muslims will privately condemn the attack but will not be willing to do so openly since attacks such as these are considered as an act of Jihad by many Muslims, and Jihad is a basic tenet of Islam. Others will condemn the attacks in discussions with non-Muslims, or say that the CIA or Mossad were behind them, while privately supporting them.

Swedish politicians, who, with the exception of the Sweden Democrats, steadfastly refuse to see the increasing number of Muslims in Sweden as a problem, will try to trivialize the attack and quite possibly try to link the attack to "islamophobia". Or will our elected officials surprise me by taking the necessary precautions?







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