Silly Little Country

Our Best Defence - They're Stupid

Another jihadist plan shut down in Massachusetts.
Meanwhile, here in Toronto, the government releases a swarm of video and audio evidence against members of the Toronto 18 (no longer 18, but they seem to be convicting a pretty good number of these murderous fools).
And man, it is a good thing they are so stupid! I doubt they'll get a lot smarter; they don't seem to school themselves much except in a brainless religion (OK they are all stupid but this one seems to cause people to become more murderous than many others do) and explosive tooling and they're full of a witless teenage boy arrogance that makes them very vulnerable. I hope I am right.
There is not a lot of genius in this:

Also released on Tuesday were messages the terrorists exchanged in thumb drives in an attempt to avoid police surveillance. In one of them, Amara tells his accomplice to conduct reconnaissance in Toronto using a camera.
"Don't do anything too suspicious. Just check out everywhere, you known downtown. Check different places just uh, oh yeah and also for the chemical set like I told you I need a filter, I need Pyrex, I need something to weigh, for weighing, you know."
Amara's rambling instructions on planning the attack are interspersed with religious tracts such as, "God all mighty says in the Koran...instructing the faithful that when they meet a group of non-believers or when they are battling they should remember God a lot and that will keep them, God willing, being steadfast."

The final line in that article:

A judge said the men were motivated by an extremist interpretation of Islam that portrayed Canada as a "near enemy."

Extremist? Maybe. I am not convinced. After all, we Canadians are mostly infidels, and so really rather deserve to be blown up.
The CBC report cites more carefully the inspirational advice sent to the team by their gutless leader, to read more Koran, in fact at least four pages per day, as that would surely help blow a whole bunch of Toronto infidels going about their own daily business off the map. Would that not be fun?!
Again kudos to the security services. When the arrests were initially made, needless to say there were apologists suggesting that the police, RCMP, and CSIS were just being hysterical. Instead they were spot on.
Now the question is, when do these pathetic creeps start coming out of prison? And can they find a way to actually get a life? Can they actually be taught to do anything useful in life?
BTW - I note one appalling subhead in this CBC article. The little fanatic who was the ringleader is described as 'determined and intelligent'! Like those oh so 'sophisticated' murderers in Mumbai? Mayhem is really easy to produce. I think terms like 'intelligent' and 'sophisticated' ought to be reserved for constructive behavior.
Reporters and editors think in funny ways, and I am inclined to guess that there is a lurking admiration for people who want to do such damage. Just a guess, though.
But bottom line - so far the would-be mass murderers are stupid, not intelligent, and not sophisticated.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 2:32 PM