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Sunday, August 28, 2011
'Why I Loathe the Arab Spring'
Sure Enough, AQ-Linked Islamists in Tripoli
Ikea Founder Was Nazi During and After War
A new book makes a convincing case that Ikea's billionaire founder supported the Nazis during and after WWII. Click here for the story.
Sunday, 28 August 2011
The moment has come to admit that I loathe the Arab Spring and almost everything about it.
It looks to me pretty much like a football crowd armed with AK-47s and bazookas, with the added ingredient of Islamic militancy. Why am I expected to like it?
For we are all supposed to approve of it. Every media outlet, every politician, every church pulpit, treats it as an unmixed Good Thing.
Not me. I look at these wild characters in baseball caps and tracksuit bottoms blasting ammunition into the sky (often killing or injuring innocents far away, but they don’t care) and I am mainly thankful that they are a long way off.
Read more here.
No surprise: Al Qaeda-connected Islamists are controlling the Tripoli strongholds of Libya's ousted dictator. Clickhere for the report.
The 85-year-old Swede still controls Ikea from his home in Switzerland, as reported here.
Given his staggering wealth, it would be interesting to know if he has been a financial backer of neo-Nazi, neo-fascist--and Islamist--organizations.
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