As if 2020 wasn’t “interesting” enough, now there’s word that the Islamic State is plotting jihad massacres in Europe during Christmastime. So warns a former MI6 spy, who says that the malevolent acts are intended as revenge for Westerners’ republication of Muhammad cartoons.
That man, Aimen Dean, a former al-Qaeda bomb-maker who later became an MI6 operative, says that various European countries will be targeted. As inews.co.uk reports, Dean, who spent eight years spying on the Islamic State
before his cover was blown by a US intelligence leak, said plots were being hatched in ungoverned areas of northern Syria and Libya to launch attacks in revenge for the re-publication in France of cartoons of Mohamed.
The alleged plan to try to send attackers via Turkey and across the Mediterranean from North Africa is being masterminded by Abu Omar al-Shishani, a Georgian Isis commander who was believed to have been killed in an American air strike in 2016 but is now believed to have survived his injuries.
Mr Dean said it was his understanding that extremists had decided to try and use the lifting of lockdown restrictions during the Christmas period to launch attacks in Europe, in particular against the UK, France and Germany.
… Speaking to a policing and security audience at the online International Security Week conference in London, Mr Dean said Shishani, who is thought to be based in northern Syria, was planning to infiltrate attackers from the remaining outposts of Islamic State activity following the recent re-publication of Charlie Hebdo cartoons of Mohamed. A French teacher, Samuel Paty, was murdered in October after showing the cartoons to his class.
If the lockdowns really were an impediment to jihad terrorism, then, well, that’s at least one “disease” they prevented. Yet while the suspicious may think this claim could be used as a pretext for perpetuating China virus regulations, what’s plain (and enraging) is that the terrorism could be largely prevented if authorities were willing to lock down the West to (im)migrants the way they lock down Westerners from each other.
Note that the alleged plan is “to try to send attackers via Turkey and across the Mediterranean from North Africa” — ergo, no migration=no plan=no terrorism.
But that’s too simple, perhaps, and no doubt awfully “racist” according to the immigrationists, who’ll die with their multicultural boots on (then again, the hapless citizenry will likely do the dying).
What’s far more likely, if the Islamic State succeeds, is that “there will be a renewed initiative to compel the West into adopting Sharia blasphemy laws,” writes Jihad Watch proprietor Robert Spencer, issuing his own warning.
“That’s close to happening in a de facto way already, as evidenced by the massive number of publications that fear to republish the Muhammad cartoons, the police actions in Sweden and France against people who burned the Qur’an, and the many Western groups that say that it’s wrong to exercise one’s freedom of speech by criticizing Islam or Muhammad,” he continues.
Returning to warnings about terrorists migrating to the West, know that such messages are nothing new. Five years ago, for example, a similar alarm was sounded by Dr. Mudar Zahran, a practicing Muslim and a leader of the Jordanian Opposition Coalition living as an asylee in Britain.
During a 2015 Glazov Gang interview, Zahran said while discussing the 2015 Muslim wave migrations, “I can authoritively [sic] confirm — I have photos, I have images, I have pictures, I have names of terrorists who actually are already in Europe posting their photos in Europe on Facebook.”
Moreover, Zahran had this shocking news about the “invasion”: “I have to be honest,” he said, “you read Arab magazines and Arab newspapers; they are talking about, ‘Good job! Now we’re going to conquest [sic] Europe.’ So it’s not even a secret” (video below).
Ironically, this situation and the pandemic have in common that they both involve ineffective cures worse than the disease. With the China virus, it was destructive lockdowns; in the case of the Muslim migrations, they themselves were meant as “remedies” for people plagued by Mideast strife. Yet as Zahran pointed out, most of the migrants weren’t fleeing danger but were economic opportunists — and sometimes worse.
Something else COVID ritual and immigrationism share, interestingly, is that they both serve to atomize the West. Migration of unassimilable peoples does this by dividing us demographically, while lockdowns do so by dividing Westerners from each other. Both reduce national cohesion.
It’s germaphobia and xenophilia — two misguided passions and a deadly combination.
