From Islamabad to Islamaworse

[JHE]

Bomb hits Pakistan Danish embassy

Clever Slamists: one of the people killed worked at the embassy, as a cleaner.

Down with cartoons!

 

[Detroit City]

bloody islamists....they're almost as bad as the american anti-abortionist who bomb family-planning clinics

 

[scifisam]

Haven't read the link, am not interested in it, but congratulations on a Sun-worthy headline! Very good pun.

(Except that they're not as anti-Muslim as you).

*awaits someone posting up a link where it's been used in a real newspaper*

 

[cesare]

Will anyone click on the link first and comment on it, bypassing/accepting JHE's headline/agenda?

 

[cesare]

If I were a fundamentalist Islam person with malicious designs I'd have recruited JHE by now for PR purposes

It's a bit like that car advert when the car obscures bits of what's said in a really obvious way so you end up concentrating on the car cos the message is meaningless.

 

[Aldebaran]

The "cartoon" link is quite dubious but it is the most easy thing to bring up, again. Don't think it is already known who or what is behind this.
For an other article see
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FBF7CF51-F736-4381-951C-2F04C7F8F604.htm

salaam.

 

[cesare]

The "cartoon" link is quite dubious but it is the most easy thing to bring up, again. Don't think it is already known who or what is behind this.
For an other article see
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8F4430EF-2700-44BC-A85F-B3388C70D438.htm

salaam.

That links to the appointment of Nonoo

 

[ViolentPanda]

The BBC link is an amorphous mass of tidbits and factoids, all thrown together. There's no clear link between the bomb and the cartoons, they refer to Baitullah Mehsud as "Pakistan's top Taleban warlord", which is (at the least) contentious, given his (and many of the other tribal "aristocracy"'s) established habit of following the money, and the fact that Mehsud was a Waziri separatist long before "Taliban" became the common tag for all anti-governmental or separatist forces in Pakistan. The tribal connections between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the political connections between Pakistani Pashtuns and the Taliban are more tangled than the BBC implies.

 

[Brainaddict]

The BBC link is an amorphous mass of tidbits and factoids, all thrown together. There's no clear link between the bomb and the cartoons, they refer to Baitullah Mehsud as "Pakistan's top Taleban warlord", which is (at the least) contentious, given his (and many of the other tribal "aristocracy"'s) established habit of following the money, and the fact that Mehsud was a Waziri separatist long before "Taliban" became the common tag for all anti-governmental or separatist forces in Pakistan. The tribal connections between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the political connections between Pakistani Pashtuns and the Taliban are more tangled than the BBC implies.

The BBC is usually hopeless on Afghan and Pakistani tribal area issues. I'm not sure why - because there are people who understand a lot about the situation in those regions. I was just reading Jason Burke's The Road to Kandahar for example. Why can't the BBC employ some of the journalists who actually know what they're talking about? Maybe they just don't give a toss

 

[Spion]

Clever Slamists: one of the people killed worked at the embassy, as a cleaner.

Down with cartoons!

I bet you never posted links and smart aleck comments every time an Afghan or Iraqi family copped it from a US or UK delivered bomb. But hey, our bombs tear people apart in a secular and democratic way I suppose

 

[Brainaddict]

That BBC article is also very weird in talking about Ayman al-Zawahiri as the al-qaeda network 'number two' - without any further explanation. It may be he's high-up among the particular set of militant organisations around bin Laden - but the implication that there is a centralised command network that encompasses global al-Qaeda is ridiculous.

 

[Aldebaran]

That links to the appointment of Nonoo

mm... must have clicked on something wrong.
Fixed

salaam.

 

[cesare]

mm... must have clicked on something wrong.
Fixed

salaam.

Cheers!

 

[d.a.s.h]

There's no clear link between the bomb and the cartoons

So why did they pick on the Danish embassy?

 

[tarannau]

Clearly it's about Danish supremacy in the bacon industry...

 

[d.a.s.h]

A protest at their brewing industry and porn mag output.

 

[Aldebaran]

I bet you never posted links and smart aleck comments every time an Afghan or Iraqi family copped it from a US or UK delivered bomb. But hey, our bombs tear people apart in a secular and democratic way I suppose

You don't understand JHE's insight in the dynamics of mass murder.
There is a world of difference between Muslims killing Muslims and The Western Good Forces killing Muslims.
The first is called terrorism.
The second is called collateral damage.

salaam.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

You don't understand JHE's insight in the dynamics of mass murder.
There is a world of difference between Muslims killing Muslims and The Western Good Forces killing Muslims.
The first is called terrorism.
The second is called collateral damage.

salaam.

Which is worse?

 

[Aldebaran]

Which is worse?

What do you think?

salaam.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

What do you think?

salaam.

Both. You?

 

[ViolentPanda]

So why did they pick on the Danish embassy?

I don't know.

Thing is, it's not reasonable to make a blithe assumption that the one is because of the other, hence me saying "there's no clear link".

Comprende?

 

[poului]

9h98j0-k-

If that bombing had nothing to do with the Danish cartoons controversy I'll eat my balaclava.

 

[danny la rouge]

It's a plea for more Halal pastries.

 

[Spion]

Which is worse?

They're both acts of political violence, which kill and maim. But to dignify one as 'collateral damage' and vilify the other as 'terrorism' is disgusting

 

[d.a.s.h]

I don't know.

Thing is, it's not reasonable to make a blithe assumption that the one is because of the other, hence me saying "there's no clear link".

Comprende?

What are you suggesting, they shut their eyes and stuck a pin in the Islamabad A-Z Street Atlas?

It's bloody obvious why Islamic nutters would pick the Danish embassy. A combination of security being not as shit-hot as at the Yank or Brit embassies, and Denmark's infamous reputation among the Muslim world as They Who Mock Allah With Cartoons.

 

[poului]

8u98u0i09

I see some music stores have been hit now.

Just about the only "reasonable" explanation I can think of is that Tania Zaetta scandal, but even that's a long shot.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

They're both acts of political violence, which kill and maim. But to dignify one as 'collateral damage' and vilify the other as 'terrorism' is disgusting

As is dignifying one as the rage of the oppressed while vilifying the other as state sanctioned mass murder?

For my part I think you're right when you say they are both acts of political violence; I would add that neither politics (as far as they are clear) appeal.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[JHE]

If that bombing had nothing to do with the Danish cartoons controversy I'll eat my balaclava.

It's bloody obvious why Islamic nutters would pick the Danish embassy.

Don't be so Islamophobblewobble. You don't know that the killers weren't Cornish nationalists, of a militant Pagan persuasion.

 

[JHE]

I see some music stores have been hit now.

The all-music-is-haram Slamists are great, aren't they? They are the Islamonuts' Islamonuts. Even most of their fellow Slamists are not convinced that all music is against the will of God.

 

[cesare]

Don't be so Islamophobblewobble. You don't know that the killers weren't Cornish nationalists, of a militant Pagan persuasion.

You have to be clear about these things and take a stance.