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THE UNREPENTANT LIBERTARIAN on Friday, February 27, 2009 11:30:44 AM
While Obama's new secretary of homeland security refuses to use the word "terrorism" about "incidents" around the world, the left in Europe has not stopped being anti-American just because Obama is in the White House. The most recent example of this is a series of firebombing attacks on the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden.
Writes the local newspaper:
Since the first firebombing at Coop [supermarket] just before Christmas there have been seven other firebombings in Sodertalje [south west of Stockholm]. About the same time as the firebombings started leaflets appeared around town that encouraged firebomb attacks on shops and department stores that sell American products, with reference to the super power's invasion of Iraq. The leaflets also contain images on how to make a time-delayed firebomb.
Just this week there were three firebomb attacks on one night. The police is unable or unwilling to stop the attacks, either because - due to perpetual budget cuts - they lack the resources, or because they suspect that the attackers are non-European immigrants. Tensions around immigration policy are very high in Sweden and the anti-Western sentiments among radical Muslims are stronger than perhaps ever since 9/11.
This terrorism with openly anti-American motives should not go un-noticed. While Obama ostensibly is lowering the American guard against terrorism, the terrorists are raising their aims. Europe is a perfect long-term base for many anti-American movements, and Sweden, with its ever weaker law enforcement and ever growing political radicalization, is becoming the most fertile ground for radical terrorism in the West.