September 5, 2006

Nine Suspected Islamic Terrorists Arrested in Denmark

It wasn't too long ago that Denmark was ground zero for jihadist fury, after a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed last Fall. Now the Danes are finding that--like the rest of Western Europe--they're besieged by an Islamist enemy that dwells within. Here's more, from Reuters:

Nine men have been arrested in Denmark suspected of planning terrorist attacks, the Danish intelligence service PET said in what the second major anti-terrorism raid in less than a year.

Danish Justice Minister Lene Espersen told Danish television TV2 the terrorist case was "the most serious in the country."

Authorities provided no details on the target of the attacks, but said the police raid overnight had uncovered "materials" for the production of explosives.

The sting comes a month after British police uncovered a plot to blow up several US-bound airliners using liquid explosives.

In October 2005, another Danish anti-terrorism operation led to the arrest of seven young Muslims in Copenhagen.

The identity of the new detainees was not revealed, but authorities said they were aged 18 to 33 and arrested during a police raid overnight in the heavily immigrant-populated neighbourhood of Vollsmose in the town of Odense.

PET chief Lars Findsen said in a statement that the arrests took place without incident after a lengthy period of surveillance.

This sounds like a piece of excellent and thorough anti-terror police work by the Danes. But what of the local Danish Muslism reaction? According to the Reuters piece:

"Abu Bashar, an imam in the Vollsmose neighbourhood who knows several of the suspects personally, said the arrests did not come as a surprise, and that he felt the alleged terrorist attacks were linked to Denmark's participation in the war in Iraq.

'I'm afraid that there will be a terrorist attack in Denmark because there are Danish soldiers deployed in Iraq, and I'm afraid of what (terrorist organisation) Al-Qaeda may do if Denmark doesn't withdraw its troops,' he told Danish news agency Ritzau."

So basically, what Mr. Bashar is saying is that if Denmark would just withdraw from Iraq everything would be fine and the country would no longer be a target. Sure.

Unfortunately, the Western Left is probably nodding its collective head in agreement with Bashar as I write this. Little do they grasp that the ongoing Islamic jihad against the West isn't about Iraq. It's about a brutal totalitarian ideology that seeks to dominate every nation of the world, no matter what their involvement is in Iraq. Memorize it and commit it to memory, please.

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