Sudden Jihad Syndrome in Vienna
Austrian authorities announced on October 2 that they arrested a second Bosnian-Muslim suspect in the plot to attack the American Embassy in Vienna. Mehmed D. (34) was apprehended following the arrest of Asim C. (42) last Monday, after the latter tried to enter the Embassy carrying a backpack packed with grenades, plastic explosives, nails, screws and other metal fragments. This was a classic case of Sudden Jihad Syndrome; and the Austrian authorities’ reaction to it is depressingly familiar to those of us who have been following the ongoing SJS epidemic here in America.
That reaction has four key elements:
1. Denial that the attack is motivated by Islam;
2. Strong hint that the attacker is insane;
3. Assurance that the attacker(s) acted alone, and that there is no al-Qaeda link;
4. Prominent publicity to the Muslim “community’s” expressions of shock & horror.
Claim that—if the attacker is a Bosnian Muslim—his behavior was caused by the trauma of the 1990s war in which his people were supposedly the victims.
Like in a predictable soap opera, all five elements are at work in Vienna. This confirms what I have been saying for years: that the same Jihad-enabling pathology is at work on both sides of the Atlantic.
As for (1), Austrian police said that, in addition to his deadly load, Asim C. was carrying a book that “contained references to Islam”—but when the Kurier newspaper published a photo of the book, it turned out to be a Muslim prayer book. Nevertheless, Doris Edelbacher, chief spokeswoman for Austria’s federal counterterrorism office, played down “speculation” that the intended attack was motivated by Islamic ideology. For his part Erik Buxbaum, chief of Austria’s public security, declared that it is “too early to speak of an Islamist background.” The authorities are unclear about the would-be attacker’s motive.
As for (2), Ms. Edelbacher said Asim C. was “incoherent” and “rambled” to police in an interrogation that lasted until late at night. Herr Buxbaum further indicated that the suspect may have received psychiatric care in recent years.
As for (3), “no link had been established between the two men and any Islamic movement.” In addition, the would-be attacker is already portrayed as a bungling loner who did not really intend to detonate his device: “Although investigators had found half a kilo of plastic explosives in his apartment, they doubt that Asim C. had really intended to carry out a terrorist attack on US embassy along with another Bosnian Mehmed D., who was also arrested.
As for (4), Guenther Ahmed Rusznak, a spokesman for Vienna’s Islamic community, condemned the incident and “rejected radical Islam.” The media in Austria carried statements by the leaders and members of the country’s large Bosnian-Muslim community expressing indignation at any suggestion that the incident reflected its views or aspirations.
As for (5) press reports on Wednesday revealed that Acim C. “had been injured and traumatized during the war in his country.”
This is déjà vu all over again. Let us recall that, nine months after the shooting spree by a 19-year old Bosnian Muslim, Sulejman Talovic, left five people dead and four wounded in a Salt Lake City shopping mall, the authorities claim to be clueless about his motives. The mainstream media were quick to blame the Serbs for Talovic’s alleged early-childhood traumas that supposedly caused him to crack. (They even interviewed a Bosnian jihadi veteran to make that point.) In fact, the rampage in Utah was yet another outbreak of the SJS that is erupting across America with increasing regularity.
Talovic’s family and a “shocked” Bosnian-Muslim community were unsurprisingly quick to reject any possibility of the jihadist connection. “We are Muslims, but we are not terrorists,” the killer’s aunt, Ajka Omerovic, told the media. But Talovic’s Bosnian-born girlfriend revealed that his favorite film was Malcolm X—the same movie that triggered off John Walker Lindh’s path to jihad. Contrary to the family’s assurances, she also revealed that he had a contact at the local mosque—the same mosque attended by U.S. Marine Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun, the deserter now safely back in his native Lebanon.
The SJS pattern, both in America and in Europe, is boringly predictable: a Muslim commits an act of violence, or is caught plotting to commit one. The authorities are either quick to deny the suspect’s links with Islamic terrorism, or, if such a link is nevertheless suspected, adamant that he is acting alone. The local Muslim community responds with a mix of indignation and denial. Non-Muslim civic leaders then respond by reassuring the Muslim community that it is loved and appreciated. The media report heart rendering stories of the Muslim sense of sadness, rejection, alienation, or else dwell on the perpetrator’s history of woe—in a “Bosnian” case by evoking alleged wartime traumas and blaming the Serbs.
Over the past couple of years there have been several SJS incidents directed against Americans. It is remarkable that even when the perpetrator explicitly linked his motives to jihad, the authorities refused to accept his word:
—Last January 31, 22-year-old Ismail Yassin Mohamed stole a car in Minneapolis, rammed it into other cars, then stole a van and continued to ram other cars, injuring one person. All along, Mohamed repeatedly yelled, “Die, die, die, kill, kill, kill”; when asked why he did all this, he replied, “Allah made me do it.”
—In August 2006 Omeed Aziz Popal, an Afghan immigrant, killed one person and injured 14 during a murderous drive through the streets of San Francisco, during which he targeted people on crosswalks and sidewalks. He identified himself as a terrorist but the authorities ascribed the incident to Popal’s mental problems and stress caused by his forthcoming arranged marriage.
—On July 28, 2006, Naveed Afzal Haq forced his way into the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. Once inside, Haq announced, “I’m a Muslim American; I’m angry at Israel,” and then began shooting, killing one woman and injuring five more; yet an FBI agent stated: “We believe . . . it’s a lone individual acting out his antagonism. There’s nothing to indicate that it’s terrorism-related.”
—In March 2006, a 22-year-old Iranian student named Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar drove an SUV onto the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, deliberately trying to kill people and succeeding in injuring nine. At a court appearance he explained that he was “thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah.” Officials again dismissed terrorism as a motive, even after Taheri-Azar wrote a series of letters to the UNC campus newspaper detailing the Qur’anic justification for attacks on unbelievers.
The list of SJS-related incidents, and official denials of the syndrome’s existence, is growing longer each year, starting with the killing of Meir Kahane in New York in November 1990 by El Sayyid Nosair. The authorities ascribed the killing not to jihad but to Nosair’s “depression.”
In March 1994, Rashid Baz, a Lebanese immigrant, opened fire on a van carrying members of a Jewish congregation on Brooklyn Bridge, killing one boy. The authorities claimed it was a case of “road rage.”
In February 1997 Ali Abu Kamal, a Palestinian immigrant, opened fire on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, killing one tourist and injuring six others before committing suicide. The authorities attributed the incident to Kamal’s “mental instability” caused by a failed business venture, and that version remained officially accepted until a month ago. Last month, however, his daughter admitted that a letter had been found on her father’s body justifying his act by his religiously inspired hatred for America, Britain, France, and Israel.
In 2002 two cases of SJS occurred at airports. In July Hesham Mohammed Hadayet opened fire at the Israeli Airlines counter at LAX, killing two people and injuring four. The FBI initially claimed that “there’s nothing to indicate terrorism,” but reclassified the attack as a terrorist act when it was revealed that Hadayet may have been involved with Al-Qaeda. In September Patrick Gott, a Muslim convert, killed one person and wounded another at New Orleans airport. He was armed with a shotgun and his Kuran, but the authorities claimed he was insane.
In October of that same year two converts to Islam, John Mohammed and Lee Malvo, killed 13 people in a spree that terrorized Washington and its suburbs for weeks; and yet again the media and the authorities denied the obvious connection. It was subsequently revealed that Malvo’s prolific religiously-inspired “artwork” included a self-portrait in the cross hairs of a gun scope shouting, ALLAH AKBAR! with the word SALAAM scrawled vertically, and a drawing of the Twin Towers burning and captions JIHAD ISLAM UNITE RISE! along with “America did this” and “You were warned.”
In March 2003 U.S. Army Sergeant Asan Akbar threw a grenade into a tent with fellow soldiers in Kuwait, killing an officer and wounding 13. He declared at the time of his arrest, “You guys are coming into our countries, and you’re going to rape our women and kill our children.” He gave his home address as the Masjid Bilal Islamic Center in South Central Los Angeles, to which he belonged and where he worshiped. In spite of this, George Heath, a public affairs officer for Fort Campbell, Ky., where the suspect was based, explained the incident by asserting that Akbar faced “a leadership challenge.” Another U.S. Army spokesman said the motive for the attack was most likely “resentment” rooted in Akbar’s “attitude problem.” Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld blandly called the attack “the kind of an incident that occurs in cities and towns from time to time, and it’s always unfortunate, always tragic, and one has to go through a process of investigation to try to determine what in fact happened and why it happened.”
Five months later Mohammed Ali Alayed slashed the throat of his erstwhile Jewish friend, Ariel Sellouk, following Alayed’s rediscovery of his Islamic identity. After the murder he went to a mosque. The authorities nevertheless “could not find any evidence that Sellouk . . . was killed because of his race or religion,” enabling Alayed’s defense attorney to claim that “there was no evidence to substantiate the hate element.”
In May 2005 firefighters conducting a routine inspection in a Brooklyn supermarket found 200 automobile airbags—which contain components that can be used to make bombs—and a room lined with posters of Osama bin Laden and beheadings in Iraq. Yet officials were again adamant: This has nothing to do with terrorism.
In June 2006 Michael Julius Ford, a Muslim convert, shot to death one fellow worker at a Denver Safeway and injured five before being killed by the police. And yes, his friends and family, and the Denver Post, were all baffled.
The list will continue for many years to come, and the victims’ blood is on the hands of the Western elite class, in Vienna, Denver, London, and any other place that is blessed and enriched with the presence of a Muslim “community.” The ongoing refusal of the elite class to protect the people they rule from Islamic terrorism is the biggest betrayal in history. It is rooted in the mindset that breeds the claim that “force is not an answer” to terrorism, that profiling is bad and open borders are good, that Islam is peaceful and the West is wicked. The upholders of such claims belong to the culture that has lost its bond with nature, history, and the supporting community. In the meantime, thanks to them, the quiet onslaught continues unabated, across the Mediterranean and through every major airport in Western Europe and North America.
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The reason for the reaction in Vienna is obvious from Dr Trifkovic's article: "Bosnian"! Bosnia is part of Europe. Bosnians are ethnic Europeans. They are neither immigrants nor the descendants of immigrants. Through them and other ethnic European Muslim peoples, Islam is an integral part of European civilisation, a distinction it shares only with Christianity.
In other words, the ethnic European Muslims are not going anywhere, so we have no choice but to live with them. There is thus no point in demonising "Muslims" in general for exactly the same reason as there is no point in demonising "Serbs" in general. That merely pushes people into the arms of the extremists and the lesson of Northern Ireland is there to show what that leads to. Since Islam is part of European civilisation no matter what, why not just live with the immigrants and their European descendants?
That's just Europe's common sense way of dealing with problems!
Was Sirhan Sirhan's assassination of Robert Kennedy caused by trauma inflicted on him as a Palestinian by Israelis?
First, an excellent piece of reportage, Dr. T. I wish this site made it easier to email its articles to others.
Second, the comments from Mr. Kenny in post #1 above are simply asinine. There is no reputable work of history in existence showing that "Islam is an integral part of European history". It waged war on Europe for centuries, until our race proved superior, and we conquered them (but, alas, characteristically did nothing to wipe them out, or at least re-convert them back to Christianity). Judaism, despite the immense problems its people have inflicted on whites and Christians since their legal emancipation or de-ghettoization, has a far better claim than Islam to having been 'integral' to European history, and therefore to a place within Europe.
Moreover, the ignorant Mr. Kenny fails to realise that all "European Muslims" outside of the formerly Ottoman-occupied Balkans (except a miniscule handful of converts) are precisely "immigrants or the descendants of such" - and of very recent vintage, allowed in by the same type of self-hating whites who, in our own country, marched for civil rights and always plead for more (non-white) immigration.
Finally, we very much have a choice other than simply to tolerate Muslims (or any other racial aliens, of whatever skin color) in our midst: we can awaken culturally and racially, rediscover our manhood, and then tell these filthy "demographic warriors" to GET OUT of the West immediately - or be treated as enemy combatants, and liquidated on sight.
Third, reportage is one thing, but prescription is another (and more necessary). In other words, what do we do, Dr. T., about the Islamic cancer(s) is the Western body politic? Now that they have established themselves throughout the West, must we simply tolerate the cancer - or can we excise it?
Michael Kenny:
"Since Islam is part of European civilisation..."
Samuel Huntington shows clearly in The Clash of Civilisations (writing in 1995) that Bosnia may be 'in Europe' but is certainly not part of Western civilisation, the boundary of the West basically is Croatia's eastern border (at least since they ethnically cleansed the Serbs out of Krajina). Most of the Balkans belong to the Orthodox world, with an Islamic world incursion due to the centuries of Ottoman rule. Of course the Orthodox world shares many commonalities with Western civilisation; the same cannot be said of the Islamic world.
"That merely pushes people into the arms of the extremists and the lesson of Northern Ireland is there to show what that leads to"
The actual history of NI shows no such thing. The IRA only gained wide Catholic support after the British govt adopted a policy of appeasement in the 1990s.
"There is thus no point in demonising “Muslims” in general for exactly the same reason as there is no point in demonising “Serbs” in general."
Of course this highlights an oddity.
How many incidents of Serb terrorism -- in response to the Clinton administration's bombings -- have there been?
While the American media have been demonizing Serbs and stoutly defending Muslims, no Serbian-affiliated organization has ever done anything to Americans -- or at least nothing to compare with the events Dr. T mentions, much less the World Trade Center & Pentagon.
I've always found this peculiar. Serbs are monsters and Muslims are misunderstood, yet for some reason the monsters haven't sought revenge upon us for having dropped bombs on them, while the misunderstood have the habit of executing people who convert to Christianity (as in Afghanistan).
Orwellian Homeland Security: "profiling is bad and open borders are good" . . . add to that: for protection, law-abiding Americans should carry a "National ID card" instead of a concealed weapon.
Not to be forgotten that West's attempts at such low-cost appeasements of Muslims in Europe are on behest of the perennial would-be world rulers by proxy... In desperate "hope" of somehow placating the Muslim countries that surround that inviable implant (that cannot stand even for a moment without being propped around the clock by the U.S. military) forced into the midst of a Muslim sea, would they not eventually "return the favor" and "let Israel live". (Of course, the chance of _that_ happening is fat, slim, or none
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(Re. comment #2)
"... Was Sirhan Sirhan’s assassination of Robert Kennedy caused by trauma inflicted on him as a Palestinian by Israelis? ..."
Good question.
Sirhan Sirhan was a Maronite Christian from Palestine, and I do remember reading in the press at the time how his family's priest was praising him as an exceptionally decent person, a true Christian raised in the finest tradition of his religion.
Wikipedia, which indeed is not a reliable source by any stretch, claims various strange things about him, but it does admit that his motives were likely related to his anger about the Israeli oppression of Palestinians and Robert Kennedy's support for Israel (though the writer, of who knows which ethnic persuasion, then puts a spin on that too).
Would be interesting to know the facts.
I have been following the Interpol activities in all European countries for quite some time (over 6 months for sure). Austria always ranked very high in the group of most wanted Albanians, but their "geboren" field always indicated Jugoslawien. Not too long ago the Austrian Interpol had as many as 90% of the most wanted composed of the Albanians.
Right now they are doing "a great deal better": from the 19 most wanted there are "only" 7 Albanians which is obviously under 50%. I suppose it is not in the interest of the Austrian authorities to make a public declaration that they are loosing the battle against Albanian criminals on their own soil. Not that there is anything wrong with a little bit of truth, but the political pressures are predominant. Austrian most wanted URL:
http://www.bmi.gv.at/kriminalpolizei/
After the entrance to Bundespolizei click on
wanted persons (Verdächtige)
(Re. #10&11)
Of course, "... it is not in the interest of the Austrian authorities to make a public declaration that they are loosing the battle against Albanian criminals on their own soil. ..."
Would be very interesting to know how they fare in Italy. The last I heard the police in Bari was _overwhelmed_ by Albanian criminals.
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http://www.bmi.gv.at/kriminalpolizei/ --> Fahndungen (searches) --> Verdächtige (suspects)
Italy traditionally had about 40% to 60% Albanian representation in the "most wanted", Bari as a town in its own right has (had) around 80% Albanians on the most wanted. It takes town, but I targeted only the known countries (Italy, Austria, Sweden, France, UK, Switzerland, Greece). The Greeks and Macedonians are in the upper 90%+
Re: #1, in moderate defense of Michael Kenny, it is true that Islam is an integral part of the fabric of the geographic continent of Europe. Also, in his defense, terrorism may well be an unfortunate and ineradicable (albeit mitigable) facet of modern life.
THAT SAID, as others have pointed out, the presence of Islam has been little more than destructive for the fabric of European civilization. Further, the so-called ethnic European Muslims (Bosniaks, Macedonians and Albanians) are descendants of Christians, many of whom resisted conversion for quite some time before they capitulated to financial pressures to convert.
FINALLY, the fact that terror is omnipresent in an era of mass weapons and modern technology only bolsters the point that Bush misses the problem with "War on Terror" rhetoric. This is a continuation of the eternal jihad that began with the Prophet's "revelation."
Re: #5, I have never lived in Ireland, but I have heard differently. Not that it matters much: in any case, the progression of the Troubles gets more complicated with every story I read/hear about it.
A small correction in regards to Macedonia: During the times of tzar Dushan Silni (mighty), his kingdom was ruled from today's Macedonia and Maceodnians considered themselves Serbs. Dushan's official title was the tzar of Serbs and Greeks.
Today's demographics show that the there are only about 64% native born Macedonians but 65% Christian Eastern Orhodox, while the Albania escapees (Muslims) along with Turks comprise 33.3% of the population.
Greece was very decidedly against Macedonia using the name Macedonia so they official had to use Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
The United States began referring to Macedonia by its constitutional name, Republic of Macedonia, in 2004 and negotiations continue between Greece and Macedonia to resolve the name issue.
Sourced from CIA's word factbook:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/mk.html
Now we know that over hundert years that Muslims in Bosnia had to endure living in non-islamic states, have hardly changed them. In less than 20 years they are back to Jihad path, despite all the love and immense money transfers from the West. Thousands of mosques have been built in Bosnia over the last 15 years.
The same applies to Albanians in Kosovo - fast and dramatic Islamisation is the strongest in those areas of Kosovo where UCK had and has its strongholds.
"Nations" of "Bosnians" and "Kosovars" (how about "Macovars" in Macedonia?) are just a prelude to establishing Sharia order , an expansion base, a clever tactical step to squeeze as much support from the West as possible.
Now that the core Europe is full of arrogant and agressive Moslems and nevertheless continues to support the Muslims at the expence of the Ortodox neighbours, mostly against the Serbs , continues to denigrate the Ortodox world and its century long heroic fight for liberty, its achievements, the Ortodox world needs to admit that there is, indeed, a deeper affinity between Islam and the West. Free from a dangerous illusion that the West and the Ortodox world are branches of the same tree, brothers, the Ortodox world will be able to mobilize its potentials to defend itself against the agressions, both from Islam and from the West.
Sad but true: Mr Kenny is right: Islam is part of the West. His words "No matter what" describe this tellingly. Sharia mentality is fully compatible with the EU mentality of cowardness, maliciousness and stupid arrogance.
Thank you, Dr. Pavlovich, for the correction; I was under the mistaken impression that Muslims in Macedonia were ethnic Macedonians.
@15,17; some ethnic Macedonians are Muslim, many having converted in the latter stages of Ottoman occupation. The Torbesh and Gorani, amidst constant attacks from Albanian brigands, took the step in order to secure protection from the Turks. The Torbesh still observe Christian holidays such as Gjurgov Den (St George's Day) and others.
Many Roma too, are (at least, nominal) Muslims.