Stockholm suicide bomber trained for jihad for 4 years

While this seemed painfully obvious the day of the attack, it now appears certain that Taimour Abdulwahab, the Stockholm man who attempted to detonate the car bomb and then a vest in the city, died from that most horrible affliction known to suicide bombers: premature detonation. And via The New York Times, we learn that he had been preparing to carry out mass murder in Stockholm for four years:

Then, with the sound of the turn of a page, he addressed his wife and children. The man confessed that trips he had made to the Middle East were not for business, but for "jihad."

"I love you all. Please forgive me if I lied to you. It wasn't very easy to live the last four years with the secret of being mujahid," he said, using an Arabic word for holy warrior, "or, as you call it, terrorist." After a pause, he continued. "Please do know one thing," he said. "You and the children are the best of what happened to me in this life."

The final words were directed at "all hidden mujahideen in Europe and especially in Sweden." Now, the speaker said, is "the time to strike even if you only have a knife to strike with, and I do know that you have more than that."

Abdulwahab's final statement indicates he carried out the attack for the Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda's front. "The Islamic State of Iraq has kept its promise," according to statements released on several jihadist forums. The Telegraph informs us that Abdulwahab was kicked out of a mosque in Luton three years ago for trying to recruit others to wage jihad against the West:

Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, 28, tried to recruit other Muslims to share his fanatical views when he was given a chance to preach at the Luton Islamic Centre.

Sources there said he then turned his attention to trying to recruit students by giving sermons at the Islamic Society of the University of Bedfordshire, of which he was a graduate….

Qadeer Baksh, chairman of the Luton Islamic Centre, also known as the Al Ghurabaa mosque, said the bomber believed Western governments had no right to involve themselves in Iraq or Afghanistan and urged others to "take matters into their own hands" because traditional mosques were not proactive enough.

Mr Baksh said: "He arrived at the mosque at the start of Ramadan [the Muslim holy month of fasting] in 2007.

"We hadn't seen him before but he was very nice, a gentle, bubbly character. People liked him and he was very helpful to them.

"He was like that for a couple of weeks and he was given the opportunity to preach.

"Some of the members brought it to my attention that his views were extreme so I challenged him.

"It was all about Iraq and Afghanistan. He was saying that Western governments had no right to be there and how too many Muslims remained silent.

"He said we should be more proactive and take matters into our own hands but he never directly advocated violence.

"He said the leaders of Muslim nations had to take more action and said scholars here were working for the government.

"It was quite serious because some of the worshippers were starting to really listen to him.

"I talked to him and went through his arguments and countered all of them theologically and he accepted it. I thought that was the end of it but he carried on.

"So one day, before the end of Ramadan, when the mosque was full I directly challenged all his misinterpretations of Islam.

"He just stood up and stormed out. We never saw him again - but I heard he'd gone to the Islamic Society at the university and continued to preach his extremist views.

Yet somehow Abdulwahab wasn't flagged as a threat back in 2007, and was able to leave the United Kingdom and travel to the Middle East, then Sweden? Or would identifying as a threat a Muslim who was preaching jihad in mosques brand any European intelligence agency or police association that did so "a Stasi organization"?

Exactly, and I can prove to you, here and now, that Islamic law in the UK EXPLICITLY supports, word for word, everything you just said.

You can read the fatwa here:

http://www.livingislam.org/maa/dcmm_e.html

It’s the westernized, liberalized Muslims who don’t mind the odd drink and congregate in little clubs and university fringe meetings well away from the mosque, that we have to worry about most in the UK. Reason being, they are the ones most likely to dispute ANY fatwa.

This guy in particular, was kicked out of the Luton Islamic Centre for advocating a vein of extremism which supposes that even non-combatants outside of conflict zones are fair game... and he stormed out when he had the riot act read to him over his views. The more orthodox a mosque is, the LESS likely it is to tolerate such dissent.

As much as that may sound counterintuitive, think of it this way: Whether individual Muslims agree personally with the fatwa against the killing of noncombatants or not, declaring it to be wrong from inside a mosque would be rather akin to a Catholic standing up during a service and declaring the Virgin Mary to be a false idol.

I suspect that Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly was a member of Al-Muhajiroun, a particularly nutty band of Islamists over here that are so extreme that even the mosques shun them.

So much so, that the orthodox mosques here have signed up to a fatwa “censuring the reckless against the killing of civilians” which was SPECIFICALLY drawn up to marginalise Al-Muhajiroun.

If you dispute that fatwa openly in any orthodox mosque in Britain, then you’re out of the door.

Al-Muhajiroun used to hold rallies in a town I used to live, until the BNP rallies and the local Sikhs AND the local mosques banded together and sent them packing.

According to the press here, his family didn’t know that he was planning an attack. He’d told them he was going away on business. At best they would’ve suspected he was an extremist, but if he was Al-Muhajiroun the last thing he would’ve done is shame his family in front of the whole mosque.

So it’s entirely plausible that his family had no idea whatsoever, that he was a member of an outcast apostate fringe, never mind that he was planning a terror attack.

Having said that, the mosque covered up their suspicions about the guy so if anyone is to blame, it’s them - they knew he was spouting hatred down at the university and could’ve alerted the police.

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