What’s the U.S. Olympic Team Doing at Jihad U?
I really did think it was an April Fools joke. The American 2012 Olympics contingent — a group estimated at one thousand people and clearly a terror target — will be lodged at the jihadi-friendly University of East London.
Before putting pen to paper, I decided to check my facts regarding the university and to see if my knee-jerk reaction was a needless form of hysteria, the kind of over-the-top terrorist fear of which Americans are accused by liberal Europeans and Britons. In fact, Britons who express fear about the proliferation of extremist Muslim groups handing out incendiary leaflets on our streets are more often than not branded Islamophobes by the media, by employers, by their local politicians, and even by shop assistants.
So I went into research mode and was able to acquire valuable background information from the excellent Center for Social Cohesion headed by the brave Douglas Murray.
In October 2002, at an “Islamic Fair” at the University of East London, Omar Khyam — mastermind of the terrifying fertilizer bomb plot in which several large British targets were to be blown to smithereens with mass casualties — met Anthony Garcia, a fellow member of the cell. Garcia, according to Center for Social Cohesion member Robin Simcox, had participated in a screening by the university’s Islamic Society of radical videos showing alleged atrocities in Kashmir.
Uthman Lateef, also known as Abu Mujahid, was recorded at a December 12, 2007, event telling his enthusiastic followers:
When you accept something from an alien or foreign tradition that is not from the core religion, down the line, decades, centuries, millennia after that, you’re going to get a very rotten apple.
This may seem harmless enough, but the agenda is as follows: go to a Western country, impose your religious beliefs on the majority, and if they do not accept your beliefs use any means necessary to enforce conversion.
The above-mentioned Douglas Murray tried to stage an intelligent debate with Anjam Choudary, former head of the now-banned al-Muhajiroun, only to have the proceedings canceled because Choudary’s supporters tried to separate men and women attending the event in the historic Conway Hall. Choudary then went outside and declared that Sharia law would one day prevail in Britain. It is in this tradition that Abu Mujahid addressed his followers at the University of East London.
So who is on the Olympic Committee? The ‘top seeds’ of the US Olympic bureaucrat ladder of course. But who are they? The output of the Great American Suburban Country Club set. And who are they?
The usual rations of Liberals and Conservatives who each claim Independent to show they don’t just knee-jerk.
But they all really knee-jerk to the “white guilt”, Political Correctness and Multiculturalsim in which they got steeped in the last half century — all had the same sotto voce WG/PC/MC programming by teachers who had got taught little more than John Dewey, Rousseau and Audio/Visuals.
So where will they bed down the teams? Same place as the VientNam-shocked incompetent US Military bedded down their troops in Beirut — ground zero for terrorists, of course.
Lay what happens at East London and at the S.A. Rustenburg World Cup directly at the feet of the Olympic Elites and the White House. The former are just elitist boobs.
The latter, however, desperately needs a run up to the 2010 long hot summer which will give them “special powers”, stated or unstated, with which to win the elections. They fear money, union and Black Panther goons aren’t enough.
“So where will they bed down the teams? Same place as the VientNam-shocked incompetent US Military bedded down their troops in Beirut — ground zero for terrorists, of course. ”
Olympic athletes should be focused on their sport, not on defending
themselves. So the athletes shouldn’t bed down next to the Islamics. The tragic Munich Olympics should remind you of some of this.
The U.S. Military can and most assuredly WILL be able to defend themselves. So they won’t worry too much about bedding down in Beirut. Did you ever hear the proverbial expression: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer?
And the U.S. Military is most certainly NOT incompetent. All of our French, British, and for that matter all our European neighbors would be speaking in German and / or Japanese and not of their own free will, had it not been for the U.S. military you so incorrectly call incompetent.
We (The US) fought on two major fronts in World War II, and won on both fronts. If you studied History, you will find that this is a feat almost never accomplished before the US (supposedly incompetent) military did it. Remember please, Napoleon Bonaparte couldn’t do it…
For that matter, we Americans and our military managed to kick the British out of America back in the early days of our Great Republic. And at that time, Britain’s military was arguably the finest army and navy in the world. We kicked their butts, to put it colloquially. The British are still a damn fine fighting force!
It’s hard to take you seriously when you can’t spell “VientNam-shocked” correctly either. And we pulled out from Vietnam, we didn’t lose. We have won decisively every engagement since then other than the skirmish in Somalia. And we kicked the crap out of a bunch of Somali pirates since then. And we are still shocked after 35 years? We learned from Vietnam and moved on. Come now, let’s join the 21St century, OK?
Carol,
I love to read your work, (even if we disagree over your hometown Phillies) and normally agree with your fears, BUT…… this one is not a major concern. They are just bunking there. I don’t think they are going to walk out of there as a bunch of jihadist Zombies. No minds are seriously going to be changed. I’m not much of an athlete, but I don’t think our team will have anything on their minds but competition and sex.
If I were a non-dhimmi Brit (and how many of those are left), I’d be more concerned about the image presented when that huge megamosque is opened right near the Olympic site.
Jeez Eric, you missed the whole point. She’s not worried our athletes will convert, she’s worried they’ll be blown up.
I’d rather not move in next to a serious threat. Would you rent a room in a motel next to a den of rattlesnakes? Especially rattlesnakes that had their tails removed so they could sneak up on you and bite you?
No point in renting a room in a den of wolves for the same reason.
This article scares the heck out of me for our Olympic team’s safety!
It continually amazes me that these hate-filled Islamists spewing their death threats in public venues are not charged with hate crimes. Anyway, I thought that comment about Jews going back to their home countries was interesting. I have another group in mind to whom to recommend that course of action but THAT would probably be hate speech.
Eric R. – I don’t come away from Carol’s article with the impression that what principly worries her is the prospect of American athletes converting en-masse to Islam. I think what concerns her is something more violent happening. I live in the East of London, and my flat overlooks the Olympic site (it’s looking pretty good, by he way), and believe me, the east of London is becoming more and more radicalised and islamised by the year. I am surrounded by people too cowed and too timid to discuss this in a grown-up way. I think the US team should take great care of their security in this city. Carol is right to be concerned. UK universities and their islamic societies have an awful track record of radicalism and extremism.
I did see Carol’s point in that; perhaps my rebuttal was not well focused. American athletes will have security concerns, but I think they will occur outside the Olympic “village”.
It’s for the same reason the police department doesn’t give out the phone number and address of their officers. If people are going to try to harm you, they KNOW you’re going to go home at night.
Having the Olympic team bed down at night next to this threat is plainly, rather ignorant, inept, and naive.
Does no one remember Munich?
Eric R.
I didn’t get the impression that the author was concerned about conversions – the statements concerning islamisation were simply offered to show that the muslims in question derive from the standard school of political, islamofascist islam. Rather, the concern is that committed jihadis with an extendsive network on the campus and equipped with knowledge of and access to the facility in the period leading up to the events might pose a significant risk.
Jihad is an Olympic Sport now?
Why not stand up comedy?
So much of what Carol says about the environment in East London is true, especially the fact that complaints of violent/threatening behaviour by Islamists are NEVER taken seriously by the Police, whereas they act on even the most innocuous complaints of Islamophobia made by Muslims. Take a look at the article below about what were effectively written death threats by the Jihadists. These being handed out outside a Mosque in the Mile End Road. I can also tell you that my friend wrote to the THREE different Police stations in the area and did not get a single response from one of them.
http://edgar1981.blogspot.com/2010/01/muslim-threats-in-east-london.html
Are the American rifle,shotgun, bow and pistol team going? Also are the American wrestling, boxing and judo teams going? There are also other teams that could possibly be useful such as the baseball, fencing and lacrosse team. If this is done right, there should be no problem.
Carol doesn’t have to ‘suggest’ it, but I surely will. This anti-American, jihadi centered, anti-western university is the PRECISE targeting ground for Islamofascists on their missions from Allah, all in order to hunt down kuffars.
In fact, I would also ‘suggest’ that this is a gift wrapped venue for jihadi hunters, courtesy of the clueless idiots arranging this debacle-in-waiting.
It seems to me that instead of making it easy as spit to arrange such a ‘golden’, jihadist’s wet dream, those tasked with protecting the athletes must urgently change course.
The point being, while westerners overall hallucinate on PC muticultural outreach, the other side is seeking EVERY opportunity for jihad. After all, who would have expected that army bases !-Ft Hood anyone?-would NOT be safe from Islamic jihadists?
Mme. la baronne de Gould is already in the dossiers, Dr. Bones, but what do you have on “the excellent Center for Social Cohesion headed by the brave Douglas Murray”?
Very like a hydra is _jihád_ careerism!
Healthy days.
“one assumes the university will make every effort to provide excellent security”.
Please do not assume this! Don’t assume, don’t trust, always verify, and in detail.
Even if the Conservatives manage to win the up-coming general election, Dave ‘soft cushions’ Cameron’s handling of security will need to be watched very carefully in the run-up to 2012.
According to the UK press, Muslims can now legally throw shoes at us without being considered to have committed assault. In 2012, they will not stop at shoes.
At least the unspeakable Ken Livingstone is no longer mayor, but if we don’t see something bloodier than Munich then I will hold it to be a miracle.
OK, Al_Batross remembers the Munich Olymoics. Anyone else?
And yes, Mood is really my last name…
For anyone here still living on planet earth:
1) The university accomodation will be throughly searched several times before the United States team arrive.
2) The university accomodation will be closed to students and pretty much anyone else while the games are in place.
3) There will be tight security not just for the United States team, but for all the teams and officals during the whole period leading up to and after the two week Olympic games.
4) The University of East London is very close to the Olympic venue itself. This cuts down travel times and journey length, which makes United States athletes that much safer, than if they were housed at a venue further away.
5) Gould is (typically) telling an outright lie when she claims the British Olympic team will be in Aldershot barracks. Aldershot barracks was one of the locations considered, but rejected and the team will now be doing pre-Olympic training and accomodation at the University of Loughborough.
roGER,
I think you mean that Carol Gould is “mistaken” ?
Locating the British Olympic team at the University of Loughborough, which I think is over 100 miles from London, seems to me to be spreading the security problem around somewhat. No Olympic-associated location in the UK is going to be “safe”, but Aldershot barracks would have made more sense to me.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
Does no one remember Munich?
roGER, the article was posted on April 10, 2010 eleven days ago. This might have been before the location was finalized.
As well, the location may have been deliberately given to her incorrectly. It’s called dis-information, and is used often to effectively shield people from harm. It’s used all over the world by governments, intelligence communities, police departments (i.e. witness protection), and the like.
These are but two reasons why Ms. Gould might have written something that wasn’t as accurate as a writer of her caliber would have wanted.
So I am thinking that Ms. Gould, being a responsible journalist, would have checked her facts, and wrote what was to the best of her knowledge the correct information at the time of publication.
Anyone who writes for the public forum has to have a little thicker skin than most people. Even still, it does not give any of us license to call the writer a liar. Ms. Gould is a human being with feelings and, hopes, aspirations, and dreams. I don’t think she aspired to be called a liar.
If you have nailed down facts that go to say that she has not been truthful, that’s one thing. But to call her a liar without such facts is ungentlemanly and worthy of an apology, in my opinion.
And to be open and above board about this, I do not know Ms. Gould. I do not have any correspondence with Ms. Gould, nor do I hope to. I am not related to her and I think I even live on a different continent. Nor has she asked me to come to her defense.
Remember the Munich Olympics?
John Mood
Lexington, SC USA
Interesting that no sooner did my piece come out than the UK decided not to be at Aldershot. I think a bad move. Perhaps a new Prime Miniser/new government will re-think this …