onsdag, oktober 12, 2005

Naturkatastrofer og terrorisme

Orkanen Katrina ramte for godt halvanden måned siden USA, og kostede lidt over tusinde amerikanere livet. Dengang kunne de islamiske fundamentalister ikke lade være med at hovere:

Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged the U.S. Gulf coast this week, has incited a storm of enthusiasm among Islamist bloggers who claim the destruction was sent by God to torment the American empire. "Katrina, a soldier sent by God to fight on our side ... the soldier Katrina joins us to fight against America," said one Islamist Web site.

Another said: "Allahu akbar [God is greatest]. Soldiers of God, Hurricane Katrina demolishes America. Don't think that God doesn't care about the injustices of tyrants."

Fair nok, det er Allah der sender naturkatastrofer. Så kom jeg til at se BBCs liste over alvorlige jordskælv. Det, der slog mig, var at hvis man ser bort fra et enkelt jordskælv i italien, der kun er taget med fordi en hel skoleklasse omkom, så er hvert evigt eneste af dem, der har fundet sted siden 11. September 2001 er gået ud over muslimske lande. Se selv:

28 March 2005:
About 1,300 people are killed in an 8.7 magnitude quake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Nias, west of Sumatra.

22 February 2005:
Hundreds die in a 6.4 magnitude quake centred in a remote area near Zarand in Iran's Kerman province.

26 December 2004:
Hundreds of thousands are killed across Asia when an earthquake measuring 8.9 triggers sea surges that spread across the region.


24 February 2004:
At least 500 people die in an earthquake which strikes towns on Morocco's Mediterranean coast.


26 December 2003:
More than 26,000 people are killed when an earthquake destroys the historic city of Bam in southern Iran.

21 May 2003:
Algeria suffers its worst earthquake in more than two decades. More than 2,000 people die and more than 8,000 are injured in a quake felt across the sea in Spain.

1 May 2003:
More than 160 people are killed, including 83 children in a collapsed dormitory, in south-eastern Turkey.

24 February 2003:
More than 260 people die and almost 10,000 homes are destroyed in Xinjiang region, in western China.

31 October 2002:
Italy is traumatised by the loss of an entire class of children, killed in the southern village of San Giuliano di Puglia when their school building collapses on them.


Hvad angår Tsunamien sidste år i December, var langt hovedparten af ofrene i Aceh-provinsen i Indonesien, hvor en fundamentalistisk islamist oprørsbevægelse har kæmpet for selvstændighed siden 1970erne. Tilsvarende var hovedparten af ofrene i Sri Lanka i de vestlige provinser, hvor hovedparten af Sri Lankas muslimske indbyggere bor.

Det sidste store jordskælv var så i Pakistan, hvor op mod 40.000 mennesker menes at være omkommet. Naturnødvendigt er jordskælvet også gået ud over terroristerne, der havde deres baser netop i det område, der er værst ramt (via JihadWatch):

From The Statesman:

For all the years of jihad in Kashmir, the capital of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, was the hub of terrorist activity. It had a number of terrorist training camps, far beyond the reach of Indian security agencies. But they have been badly hit by nature.

The fury unleashed by the killer quake, at least, has achieved one thing that both Pakistan and Indian administrations failed to do — that is to clamp down on terror camps and in particular, the terror infrastructure.

The killer quake has crippled militant training camps in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and the North-west frontier province of Pakistan.

As a result of which the Jihad Council, an umbrella organisation of several militant outfits, has also suspended its activities.

This report contradicts the Jihad Council's directive.

A local Kashmiri newspaper has reported that scores of activists from an Islamic charity linked to a banned Pakistani militant organisation died in the devastating earthquake. Even, the militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiyaba’s offshoot, the Jamat-ud-Dawa’s spokesman said that the charity’s mosques, hospitals, schools and Islamic seminaries were obliterated.

“We have lost many of our members. Several have died, many others are buried under the rubble,” he said.

The Lashkar-e-Taiyaba runs a hospital and a madrasa near Muzaffarabad, which have borne the brunt of the quake’s fury. Twenty kilometres from Muzaffarabad, the Lashkar-e-Taiyaba had three training camps — Kura, Aksa and Abdullah bin Masood. This was the seat of the Lashkar commander, Zaki ur Rehman.

The militant organisation had also set up three new camps in the hills in the north-west of Manshera, called Umar, Abu Bakr and Umar Bin Auf. Each camp had more than 100 militants, many of whom have been badly reportedly affected by the quake that transcended all artificial boundaries while unleashing its own variant of terror. Even Balakot near Muzaffarabad that had the dubious distinction of being the epicentre of cross-border terrorism and was regarded as the nerve-centre of terror by counter-terrorism experts, has also been hit.

Hvis naturkatastroferne som jihadierne siger er Allahs redskaber til at straffe tyranner, hvornår mon terroristerne så selv fatter budskabet?

Henrik