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Spain: Jihadists Threaten Catalonia over Burqa Ban
Gatestone Institute. ^ | September 13, 2013 | Soeren Kern

Posted on 09/14/2013 9:41:50 AM PDT by george76

A jihadist group affiliated with Al Qaeda has threatened to carry out terrorist attacks in Catalonia, an autonomous region in northeastern Spain that is home to the largest concentration of radical Islamists in Europe.

The threats were issued by a group called "Africamuslima" in response to efforts by Catalonian lawmakers to increase surveillance of radical Salafists seeking to impose Islamic Sharia law in Spain and other parts of Europe.

Catalonia -- a region of 7.5 million people centered on the Mediterranean city of Barcelona -- is home to the largest Muslim population in Spain. Most of the estimated 450,000 Muslims in Catalonia are from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.

Many of the Muslims living in Catalonia are shiftless single males who are unemployed and "susceptible to jihadist recruitment," according to diplomatic cables obtained by Wikileaks and published by the Madrid-based El País newspaper.

Spanish authorities are especially concerned about the threat posed by Salafism, a radical strain of Islam that seeks to re-establish an Islamic empire [Caliphate] across the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, which Salafists view as a Muslim state that must be reconquered for Islam.

Spain's National Intelligence Center [CNI] says Catalonia is home to hundreds and possibly thousands of Salafists who, according to intelligence experts, pose the greatest threat to Spain's national security.

(Excerpt) Read more at gatestoneinstitute.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; ban; banning; basques; burkas; burqa; burqaban; caliphate; catalonia; europe; europeanunion; islam; islamists; jihadists; koranimals; muslim; nato; radicalislamists; religionofpeace; salafism; salafists; spain; veil

1 posted on 09/14/2013 9:41:50 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Ah, the ‘religion of peace’...


2 posted on 09/14/2013 9:43:51 AM PDT by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: george76

How would they feel about a new Inquisition?


3 posted on 09/14/2013 9:47:01 AM PDT by Defiant (A rainbow curtain has descended upon the west, from Munich to San Francisco.)
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To: george76

“Don’t you dare call us ‘violent’, or else we keel you.”


4 posted on 09/14/2013 9:50:57 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: george76

Where’s El Cid when you need him?


5 posted on 09/14/2013 9:50:58 AM PDT by 'smith
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To: george76

Hey Spain, you acted wisely in 1492 when you kicked out that vermin but you were stupid to let them in again.


6 posted on 09/14/2013 9:54:55 AM PDT by 353FMG ( I refuse to say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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To: george76

Import a bunch of radical Islamist thugs into your country and this is what you get.

Utterly amazing how the West continues to destroy itself.


7 posted on 09/14/2013 9:55:36 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks george76.
A jihadist group affiliated with Al Qaeda has threatened to carry out terrorist attacks in Catalonia, an autonomous region in northeastern Spain that is home to the largest concentration of radical Islamists in Europe. The threats were issued by a group called "Africamuslima" in response to efforts by Catalonian lawmakers to increase surveillance of radical Salafists seeking to impose Islamic Sharia law in Spain and other parts of Europe.

8 posted on 09/14/2013 9:56:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: SunkenCiv

moozlum degenerates on the move again.


9 posted on 09/14/2013 10:00:37 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: george76

Apparently, single, unemployed Muslim males blow things up. But NSA isn’t worried.


10 posted on 09/14/2013 10:19:11 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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To: george76

Muslims are just itching to get their asses kicked.


11 posted on 09/14/2013 11:33:18 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: george76

This sadly typical response from the Koranimals is why civilized nations are banning the burkas.


12 posted on 09/14/2013 11:35:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: DJ Frisat

Also shows the perils of inefficient, anti-capitalist, high-unemployment, socialism....which results in a lot of shiftless single males who are unemployed and “susceptible to jihadist recruitment,” (or anything else, for that matter...).

Work is good for a people—and denying people that through a centralized command economy—which guarantees unemployment and general (relative) poverty—makes a people vulnerable to all kinds of destructive ideologies. See Germany in the 1930s...


13 posted on 09/14/2013 2:23:18 PM PDT by AnalogReigns (because the real world is not digital...)
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