Why was Abdullah Muhammad al-Ahdal Killed in 1989?
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Submitted by M.D. Anthony (Canada), Mar 10, 2008 at 00:54

In 1989 one could have made the following comments and not been ridiculed, or attacked, or even accused of fear mongering.

In pre-World War II Germany many who became disillusioned with the radicalism of the stiffled truth of the Berlin Version of National Socialism departed Germany. Most of those so affected moved to other parts of Europe - even to Belgium! Some to Great Britain and some even the United States. Most left Germany to their deaths at the hands of the Nazi zealots who were dispatched to deal with such traitors. A naive and disinterested world did not put the truth together until sometime well past "too late".

True or not about Salmon Rushdi's Fatwah or weather certain deceased persons were witnesses to a Saudi Embassy fraud - What is being missed even by the the Belgian Police (they should know better) Those that fall afoul of the "State Religion" will be dealt with by the assassins(police) of the same state religion. Just as the Nazi's recovered while blaming percieved mistreatment on World War One so today are the Islamists recovering and blaming mistreatment on Wetern history. As did the Nazis have wealth, money and boldness so do todays Islamists. And as did the Nazis have a slumbering world on which to prey so do todays Islamists.

The serious difference is todays State Religion (that of the Islamists) has access to Nuclear Weapons - the lack of which is why the Nazi's lost. The biggest difference though is that todays Islamists know that the lack of Nuclear Weapons is why the Nazis lost.

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