Screams in the smoke as Moscow rush hour turned to horror

Times Online ^ | 3/29/10 | Catherine Philp

[LibWhacker]

Amid the jostling crowds squeezing their way on to the packed train at Lubyanka, no one gave the silent, bulkily dressed woman a second glance. It was minutes before 8 o’clock and she was just one of the seven million passengers due on the Moscow Metro that day.

Seconds later, before the train had left the station platform, she detonated her explosives, sending glass and twisted metal ripping through the carriage and filling the air with screams and smoke.

[. . . snip . . .]

One man, the boyfriend of a woman seriously injured in the blast, swore vengeance against all Muslims and showed off blood on his hands that he claimed had come from punching a Muslim passer-by in the face.

“I am going to kill one of them. A Tajik, an Azerbajani, it does not matter, they are all the same,” he spat at journalists gathering in Lubyanka Square. “War is going to begin.”

[patriot08]

Obama's brethren

Subway victims

[wideminded]

Was Beslan Putin’s “Reichstag Fire” that he used to consolidate power?

The thing that seems more like it was Putin's equivalent of the Reichstag Fire was the 1999 apartment bombings. That was also the theory of Alexander Litvinenko, the guy that was killed by polonium.

[Terry Mross]

Are you saying Soviet tanks went into a muslim’s hometown so the muslim immigrated to the home of the tanks?

[patriot08]

MALMO, Sweden

Marcus Eilenberg is a Swedish Jew whose family roots in Malmo run deep. His paternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors who found shelter in this southern Swedish city in 1945. His wife’s parents fled to Sweden from communist Poland in the 1960s.

Now the 32-year-old law firm associate feels the welcome for Jews is running out, and he is moving to Israel with his wife and two children in May. He says he knows at least 15 other Jews who are leaving for a similar reason.

That reason, he says, is a rise in hate crimes against Jews in Malmo, and a sense that local authorities have little desire to deal with a problem that has exposed a crack in Sweden’s image as a bastion of tolerance and a haven for distressed ethnic groups.

Anti-Semitic crimes in Europe have usually been associated with the far right, but Shneur Kesselman, an Orthodox rabbi, says the threat now comes from Muslims.

“In the past five years I’ve been here, I think you can count on your hand how many incidents there have been from the extreme right,” he said. “In my personal experience, it’s 99 percent Muslims.”

Sweden prides itself on having taken in tens of thousands of the world’s war refugees. About 7 percent of Malmo’s 285,000 people were born in the Middle East, according to city statistics, and the city has large numbers from the Balkans, including the Macedonian who heads the city’s largest mosque. After the Holocaust, it took in many Jews who survived the World War II Nazi genocide.

Malmo police say that of 115 hate crimes reported in 2009, 52 were anti-Semitic. Bejzat Becirov, the mosque head, estimated there are about 60,000 Muslims in Malmo. But the number of Jews is about 700 and shrinking - it was twice as big two decades ago, according to Fredrik Sieradzki, a spokesman for the Jewish community.

Last year at least 10 of the hate-crime complaints were filed by Mr. Kesselman, from the Brooklyn-based Chabad-Lubavitch movement, whose black fedora and long beard single him out as he moves around the city.

Walking home from the Jewish community center on Malmo’s snow-flecked streets, the 31-year-old rabbi recalls some of the worst incidents: a young man who shouted “Heil Hitler” and chased him off a city bus; a car that suddenly reversed and almost hit him on the crosswalk by the opera house.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/29/hate-crimes-force-jews-out-of-malmo/

Welcome to Sweden
Coming soon to America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JBpVAj4ILM

[Vigilanteman]

Hey, even a backwater sh*thole like Russia is better than the sh*thole countries which they create where they are the majority.

The only exceptions are the oil producing countries where they are swimming in money, and those are growing fewer.

[skimbell]

"...I can't get emotionally or intellectually involved in a fight between communists and Islamic radicals..."

Me neither. But it sure is cool to watch them knock each other off. Lots of them!

[Republic of Texas]

Say what you want about the Russians, but if you plan on f*cking with them, pack a lunch.

[allmendream]

No, I am saying that many Muslims became “immigrants” of the USSR when Soviet tanks rolled into town and made where they were living part of the USSR.

Similarly many Latvians and Estonians didn't so much “immigrate” to the USSR, as the USSR “immigrated”, via tanks, over them.

[Tailgunner Joe]

"The self-confessed mastermind of the siege, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, was killed in July. He had claimed that the Russian security services bore responsibility for the carnage. Basayev said a security service agent had been sent to the rebels to persuade them to carry out an attack in North Ossetia's capital, Vladikavkaz. According to Basayev, the agent then tipped off the rebels about a plan to ambush them, allowing them to switch their attack to Beslan. He said the gunmen were allowed to enter the region with ease because the security services were planning to capture them in Vladikavkaz." - BBC