Bin Laden Threatens European Union
Filed under: Al Qaeda, Europe, Islam, Osama Bin Laden, Religion — Michael van der Galien on March 20, 2008 @ 4:00 pm CET
In his latest video, Al Qaeda Terrorist-in-Chief Osama Bin Laden threatens the European Union. He’s angry with Europe because European newspapers had the audacity to publish the so-called “Mohammed cartoons.”
A voice believed to be bin Laden’s described the attacks of the Europeans on women and children but said these “paled (in comparison) when you went overboard in your unbelief and freed yourselves of the etiquettes of dispute and fighting and went to the extent of publishing these insulting drawings, this is the greatest misfortune and the most dangerous.”
The tape was posted less than a week after the Danish intelligence service said the reprinting of a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad had brought “negative attention” to Denmark and may have increased the risk to Danes at home and abroad.
People like OBL are incapable of seeing and understanding irony, aren’t they? Sure, it’s perfectly fine to blow yourself up in the middle of a market, in an attempt to kill as many innocent ‘non-believers’ (and believers) as you can, but publishing a cartoon about the Prophet Muhammed is considered to be “uncivil” and in breach with “the etiquettes of dispute and fighting.”
Etiquettes like, o say, I don’t know, wearing uniforms? Not targeting civilians? That kind of etiquette, he means?
As an aside, how is it possible that Bin Laden is insulted by this cartoon? Doesn’t the cartoon depict the Prophet Mohammed in a way that Bin Laden could agree with? Isn’t he trying to convince Muslims that in order to be a good Muslim one has to be a terrorist? That Mohammed himself was, in essence, a terrorist?
1 Snorri Godhi
March 20, 2008 @ 4:40 pm CETMy guess is that bin Laden is trying to figure out a way to pick a fight that he can handle. The Great Satan turned out to be too much for him.
2 HiFly
March 20, 2008 @ 6:03 pm CETLets get real here, does anyone still believe Bin Laden is alive? How come he always comes out of the closet at a time when Bush is at his lowest poll ratings? I’m thinking psyops here, at least the CIA can still figuire out a way to fake Bin Laden is still alive to keep the false belief going….
3 A. A. B.
March 20, 2008 @ 9:26 pm CETEvery time such a thing happens, the cartoons should be reprinted.
4 Bob
March 20, 2008 @ 9:53 pm CETThis is ridiculous.. OBL is probably dead, and I would bet my life the recordings are all fake. Yet, as time goes on…OBL looks younger and healthier, and the authenticity of the recordings are almost never questioned. Sometimes.. a little disclosure at the end of his video may state so…but will the media follow up any time soon to tell us its a fake? Probably not.. Its all political fear mongering. Which ever government is responsible for this crap is more evil than al qaeda. Divide and conquer is the name of the game.
5 David
March 21, 2008 @ 11:31 am CETI tend to agree with Snorri on this one.
Clearly AQ are in big trouble in their war with the US. Quite a few of their highest ranking members have been killed or captured in the last few months. Osama attacked America because he thought that it was a weak society due to the precipitate US withdrawal from Somalia in the 1990s. He has found out that the US will defend itself if attacked.
This is why he wishes to change the focus to Europe. The European elites are almost always talking in appeasement/surrender mode. Just like 1990s America it seems to be an easy target.
This, to me, is one of the biggest problems with a "progressive" foreign policy. It makes tyrants and terrorists think that you are an easy touch. I believe that even the complacent states of western Europe would probably defend themselves if attacked. Unfortunately they give a contrary impression thereby increasing the liklihood that they will be attacked.
6 HiFly
March 22, 2008 @ 3:05 am CETYeah right and Bin Laden wasn’t funded by the CIA either. Let’s get real, every major leader near Afganistan has no problem stating they believe he has been dead for years now and that the videos that seem to surface are clearly an attempt by the psyops program to come out at just the right moment to prop up this propaganda.Especially when Bush needs a boost to his lowest ratings in presidential history. Fact is the last verified authintic videos of Bin Laden are many years ago and now is the time we find out just how many people are suckered into fake propaganda. Can’t fool all of the people all of the time.