Be Afraid?
Militant Islamist group al-Shabbab (”youth”) have outlined their international intentions to be executed once they’ve completed the conquest of Somalia. They begin reasonably enough:
We are fighting to lift the burden of oppression and colonialism from our country … We are defending ourselves against enemies who attacked us…Once we are successful with that we will fight on and finish oppression elsewhere on earth,
So far, so standard.
We wish to tell Bush and our opponents our real intentions.
Well, mention him all you can while he’s still there, I suppose.
Then they get ambitious:
We will establish Islamic rule from Alaska and Chile to South Africa, Japan, Russia, the Solomon Islands and all the way to Iceland, be warned, we are coming.
My immediate thought is that if they pooled their resources together and cut down on the kalashnikovs for a week or two they could probably afford Iceland. A fitting outcome for a nation seemingly entirely dependent upon the kuffah economics of usury.
Also, one has to wonder what the darling Solomon Islands have done to come to al-Shabbab’s attention. Still, it was nice to give such an unlikely target plenty of forewarning. Its perhaps the only one on the list (save perhaps the sparse sub-Arctic tundra of Alaska) that is near to managable for the Islamic guerrilas.