Other Bombings Examined

U.K. authorities look into other bombings against Western democratic targets after suspected bombers show links to Saudi Arabia.

Spain's transit attack is the logical first step but Alberto Saiz, the country's intelligence director, reported from Associated Press says:

Alberto Saiz, the director of the National Intelligence Center, said in an interview published Sunday in the Madrid daily El Pais that similarities between the attacks were limited to "their outward appearance" and targeting of transport networks.

"At that point, the differences start," Saiz was quoted as saying. The July 7 group of London bombers was "small, just four people — less visible than the Madrid one."

"Two weeks later, they try a second episode of the same attack — obviously, the perpetrators are not the same," Saiz said.

"In contrast to Madrid, this gives us the sensation that they are coordinated with other groups or have direction from above — and that there is a plan," he added. "This is not an isolated group that decides to act on its own account."

Yeah right. And when Spain's bombings occurred, they immediately blamed it on ETA, the Basque separatist organization. So why should this statement be credible?

If anyone does a search on Basque separatism they'll find at least one that identifies Basques as Muslims from the height of the Islamic Empire in Spain, circa 700 - 1492 C.E. Islamists will also identify themselves with native north Americans as well, using linguistics to link Arabic native dialect to back their claims. Anything to tap into demoralized, oppressed and repressed groups to make their cause worth believing in.

While it's important for oppressed groups to take a stand for their rights to achieve a voice in democracies that becomes written in law, many Islamists have no trouble exploiting feelings of indignity to their advantage. That rage and sense of inequity becomes fodder for militancy.

There are many dawists (Islamic missionaries) in Ontario's Islamic communities that head off to jails to reach the afflicted. This is a great place to increase Islamic adherents who may already have a sense of mistrust of the system, especially if that corrections system consistently abuses inmates with cruel and unusual treatment.

If this is true, as I have only heard stories of beatings and threats of murder by corrections officers here in Hamilton, this will only be a catalyst for more violence and crime outside of the prison system (if inmates don't choose religion or some other form of change), and possibly facilitating indirectly, future adherents into a prime psychological state for militancy.