Stop The Presses! (this time) Newsweek doesn't blame the Joooos pissing off Muslims causing the terror alert in Europe but all the muslim bashing!

And "It’s been years since the clash of civilizations seemed so real and so imminent."

Oh Really? I reckon Islam didn't get that memo.

Fucking babbling drooling incohate idiots nitwits and pissants pissin' in their pants who will never realize, until their heads are rolling like a coconut in the dust, that their necks are under The Sword too.

Newsweek:

Turn on the Red Light
The State Department has issued a "travel alert" for Europe—underscoring the effect Muslim-bashing politicians have had on the terror threat on the continent.
by Christopher Dickey and Sami Yousafzai
October 04, 2010

The most popular film in France for the past three weeks has been Of Gods and Men. It’s based on the true story of seven French monks in Algeria who were kidnapped in 1996 by terrorists from the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) and subsequently beheaded. Very little of the movie is devoted to the French brothers’ captivity, and none of it to their gruesome deaths. Instead the focus is on the months leading up to the kidnapping, and the stoic bravery of Christians and Muslims in the face of the GIA’s murderous fanaticism and the Algerian government’s brutal cynicism. The pious Cistercians know something horrible is going to happen to them as war closes in on their monastery, and they are afraid, but they find strength to stay on, working among the people, until the end.

The story has an eerie relevance to the current mood all across Europe. People are afraid, caught between terrorists who are plotting attacks against them and politicians who are not only exploiting the public’s fears but, in some cases, openly taunting the terrorists.

As if to underscore these tensions, the U.S. State Department issued a "travel alert" for all of Europe. "U.S. citizens are reminded of the potential for terrorists to attack public transportation systems and other tourist infrastructure," says the announcement. "Terrorists have targeted and attacked subway and rail systems, as well as aviation and maritime services. U.S. citizens should take every precaution to be aware of their surroundings and to adopt appropriate safety measures to protect themselves when traveling."

Last week intelligence officials in Europe and America confirmed reports that Al Qaeda's core leadership was plotting spectacular simultaneous attacks in Germany, France and Great Britain. Plans were said to be in the early stages, not operational, but the implications were ominous. The reports cited the precedent of the November 2008 Mumbai slaughter, in which 10 terrorists from the Qaeda-affiliated group Lashkar-e-Taiba, armed with nothing but assault rifles and a few grenades, killed 164 people and held the world's horrified attention for two full days.

The atmosphere has been made more sinister still, and more dangerous, because throughout the continent (from Sweden and Denmark to Italy, Holland and Hungary) extremist parties, fueled on a hostility toward immigrants, especially to Muslims, have emerged as powerful and sometimes decisive political forces.

It’s been years since the clash of civilizations seemed so real and so imminent.

The threatened attacks in Europe appear to be a desperate effort by Osama bin Laden and those around him to show they still have global reach, even though they’re under a steady onslaught from American drones. For months, embattled Qaeda operatives in Pakistan’s North Waziristan area have kept their spirits up by telling each other they would soon get revenge. “It’s like they’ve just been waiting for news, as if they were all excited about something big about to happen in the West,” says an Afghan Taliban intelligence officer who liaises between his organization and Al Qaeda. (For security reasons, he declines to let his name be published.)

As soon as Western intelligence agencies learned of the plot, American drone strikes intensified in Waziristan, with more than 20 hits in September alone, and security in Europe grew more intense and conspicuous. Last month the Eiffel Tower was evacuated twice because of bomb threats. The St. Lazare train station and St. Michel underground hub were emptied, too, but police found no explosives. French soldiers in combat gear now patrol the Champs-Élysées. British forces have deployed around Buckingham Palace, and Germany is on alert.

But the new terrorist threat doesn’t begin or end in Waziristan, and troops in the streets of European capitals are only a last-ditch defense. Qaeda acolytes and affiliates—in North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Somalia, and scattered through disaffected Muslim populations in Europe and the United States—seem determined to bring their war to the West. They all have their own agendas and vendettas, and some have long histories. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb grew out of the same GIA that kidnapped the monks in 1996, and it is currently holding seven more hostages, five of them French, somewhere in the Sahara. But all have a common goal: to gain publicity and support by hitting out at targets that symbolize, to them, the oppression of Muslims.

For years jihadists have exploited a few persistent issues: NATO’s presence in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. What’s new is the rising power and influence of xenophobic, anti-Muslim parties that are making Europe an ever-more target-rich environment for the terrorists. “The far right and the jihadis need one another,” says anthropologist Scott Atran, who is frequently consulted by U.S. government agencies about the social and organizational characteristics of terrorist organizations. In Europe especially there’s a growing impression that Muslims with immigrant backgrounds are “being thrown to the wolves,” says Atran. That fear plays directly into the jihadists’ propaganda. “This is politics,” says an architect of French counterterrorist strategy, declining to be named talking about his bosses. “But it does not help stop terrorists.”

The most conspicuous provocateur at present is Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders. His anti-Islam, anti-immigrant Freedom Party is expected to have a pivotal role in the conservative coalition government still taking shape nearly four months after elections. Wilders first came to international attention in 2008 as producer of a film called Fitna, attacking Islam as a repressive ideology. “I think he hoped there would be riots, and nothing like that happened,” says Edwin Bakker of the Clingendael, Netherlands Institute of International Relations. Holland may have stayed quiet, but rage is still rising in Pakistan’s tribal areas. Wali ur-Rehman, a Pakistani Taliban leader linked to the attempted May 1 Times Square bombing, has been watching Wilders’s rise in the Netherlands. “The path that the Dutch government is following is very dangerous,” Rehman told a TV interviewer this August, as drones circled overhead in Waziristan. “They will have to pay the price for putting a ban on Islamic values and ridiculing them.”

Yet the anti-Islamic wave keeps growing. Recently Bernard Squarcini, head of France’s Central Directorate for Internal Intelligence, told the weekly Journal du Dimanche that the terrorist threat against France “has never been so high.” The country’s military commitments and hardline foreign policy are part of the explanation, but Squarcini also blamed efforts to stop women from wearing full-face veils in public.

The anti-burqa law, passed last month, seems practically gratuitous. Among France’s roughly 5 million Muslims, only a couple thousand wear full-face veils, compared with the multitudes of Muslim women who can be found on the country’s beaches in bikinis. In fact, this new law is no more than a transparent ploy by President Nicolas Sarkozy to win far-right support before he runs for reelection in 2012. And because the law is aimed against a specifically Islamic custom, jihadists denounce it as an insult to Muslims everywhere, making France an even more tempting target for terrorists. “All the warning lights are flashing red,” said Squarcini.

In some respects, the public is cooler than the politicians. “Things are very hot right now,” says former antiterror judge Jean-Louis Bruguière, “but the French have a lot of sangfroid.” Maybe that’s why the lines stretch around the block for Of Gods and Men, and its story of faith and forbearance.