Last week there was a repetition of the porcine vandalism. Our Swedish correspondent LN has kindly translated an article from Svenska Dagbladet about the incident:
- - - - - - - - -Mosque site in Gothenburg desecrated again
The mosque site at Ramberget in Gothenburg has been desecrated again. Someone has tossed several parts of pig heads on the site. Mohammad El-Altia, a director of the Foundation for the Mosque Construction, believes that this is only the beginning.
“What will happen when the mosque is completed?” he wonders.
It was 23-year-old Emil Janitzek who discovered pig parts on the property when he was on his way to school.
“I went past the spot about 9:30 in the morning and saw that there were split pig heads scattered all over the ground. I think it was four or five pieces,” he told SvD.se.
Emil Janitzek says there were also a pile of pig parts in the site.
“It appeared to be feet, among other things,” he said.
Mohammad El-Altia thinks that what happened is terrible. He said that Muslims are celebrating Eid Al Adha today, which is a sacrificial weekend.
“I think it is horrible that this is happening during our feast,” he said.
Mohammad El-Altia says that it is the second time that the mosque site has been violated.
According to Göteborgs-Posten someone had tossed two chopped pig heads on the site in February of this year.
“During that time we got a lot of support from people who live in the area,” says Mohammad El-Altia.
He says that this type of event shows that there is great ignorance about Islam, while he is concerned about what happened.
“I think this is just the beginning. What will happen when the mosque is completed?” he wonders.
Mohammad El-Altia says that the mosque is expected to be built in 2010.
Goran Larsson, Ph.D. in religion, also working as a researcher at Gothenburg University, says there are studies showing that many mosques in Sweden have experienced different types of violations and vandalism.
“This is a large dark area, and it is sometimes difficult to know what motives lie behind such things,” he said. Goran Larsson says that the protests against mosques tend to occur at an early stage and then die away when the building is completed. Johan Olsson, analyst at the Constitutional Unit of the Security Police, says that SAPO is following this type of event and assesses them in terms of the players behind them. Then one looks, among other things, at whether the perpetrators have any political beliefs which call for such acts and whether they have access to weapons.
Hat tip: Steen.
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"Goran Larsson says that the protests against mosques tend to occur at an early stage and then die away when the building is completed."
Because they lack the courage to burn them down. Like a thief who only has the "courage" to attack little old ladies in the dark of night rather than a grown man in the light of day.
If you're going to stand up against Islam then dammit...STAND UP!
He says that this type of event shows that there is great ignorance about Islam, while he is concerned about what happened. (says Mohammad El-Altia)
I suppose he's correct there. But the ignorance is on the part of those he speaks of who are supporting him. It's not ignorance that motivates those who recycle the abattoir leftovers.
In Nordic Countries this is in Christmas times certainly no 'abattoir leftover'.
PICTURE
"At the top of the table there it was, a decorated pig's head. It was actually two which were lieing neck to neck with the snouts in opposite directions, as if they would ceep complete track of all the people around the table. And the apples were decoratively placed around the heads on the dish instead of being put in the mouth."
The central issue of the day is Terrorism, or more precisely Islamic Terrorism.
We are told nations like Pakistan cannot control it, cannot stop it, are themselves partially against it and for it at the same time, and Muslims demand all sorts of concessions which never cease to merely tamp down terrorism by their own followers: restrictions on what Westerns can do and say in their own country, while Muslims do and say the most terrible things. All the while hiding behind the polite fiction that governments and people are not responsible.
As Glen Reynolds (Instapundit) is fond of saying, the violence veto (by Muslims against things they don't like such as cartoons or books) will beget other violence vetoes.
Muslim terror and the threat of Muslim terror will only beget counter-terror. This has been the experience of human history and nature in every turn of history's pages. No one likes it. No one wants it either. But it is indeed inevitable, and the more Muslims play the game of creating terror on the one hand and playing aggrieved victim on the other, the more this sort of thing is inevitable.
Frankly, I am surprised there has not been more reaction. Particularly as European and American police get weaker and more hamstrung by PC. Leaving a "security gap" filled by vigilantes, criminal networks, and what have you.
I predict with tragic certainty that somewhere, anti-Muslim violence will flare up in response to the constant Muslim violence. When discourse becomes a matter of body counts, people adapt.
Buried in this is the issue of polygamy. I'll note Joseph Smith was murdered precisely because of this issue in Illinois, and Lincoln briefly considered calling out the Army after Mormons before the Civil War occupied all his attention. Republicans thereafter also considered it, including Grant.
Yes men kill over women all the time. It happens every day. A group of polygamists move in and claim the public spaces and eventually, the young women of the area? That's like throwing lighter fluid on a bonfire.
“This is a large dark area, and it is sometimes difficult to know what motives lie behind such things,”
Yes I am, too, completely clueless here. Really, I have no idea.
"Goran Larsson, Ph.D. in religion, also working as a researcher at Gothenburg University, says there are studies showing that many mosques in Sweden have experienced different types of violations and vandalism."
Ahh. But Goran Larsson "forgets" to tell that several of those "attacks" have been conducted by rival muslim groups and, as in the most famous case with the arsoning of the mosque in Malmoe, by people from the mosque ITSELF.
The Malmoe mosque was arsoned a few years ago and up until the police investigation showed that the perpetrator obviously had a key(the founder´s key on top of it all) to the mosque and also used gasoline from the mosque´s lawn mower to start the fire the media was using "warsize" letters.
Once the investigation reached the "wrong" conclusions media got VERY quiet, to say the least.
When it also were known that the mosque had financial problems due to it´s founders spending of the mosque´s(taxpayer´s, most of it) money it got even more quiet and the size of the newspaper´s letters got very small indeed.
Until today, even in spite of overwhelming evidence proving the opposite,the founder, Bejzat Becirov, still claims the arson is a deed by racists.
His credibility among the average swedish Joe´s are, to say the least, low but even today the journalist obviously claims this to be a "racist deed". I guess they hope that ordinary people has forgotten the real story behind this. Fortunately there are still a great number among us with reasonably good memory and sharp tounges to tell what we know.
Firstly I am offended by the gratuitous waste of perfectly good pigs' heads.
Secondly, offending Muslims should take the form of something that exposes the nature of the Islamic belief system - otherwise one is just demonstrating vacuous hostility and makes opponents of Islam look like thugs with nothing to say. With the time and money it took to track down a pigs head one could make an effigy of Mohamed groping his 9 year old bride or create lawn posters of jihadi's cutting the heads off Kaffirs.
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