Islamic Fundamentalists Feel At Home in Romania
The arrest of two Israeli-Arab traitors who conspired with Hamas to conduct terrorism is raising uncomfortable questions about the many years that the two spent studying dentistry in Romania:
Ynet, in cooperation with popular Romanian daily Evenimentul Zilei, has launched an investigation in an attempt to elicit additional information on the two Arab-Israeli dentists arrested on charges of Hamas activity as well as their school environment in Romania... According to information elicited by the Romanian newspaper, during winter Muslim students would gather at a building in the school’s dorms and apparently turned the place into a mosque. A veteran counter-terrorism officer said two imams would run the religious ceremonies and confirmed that many of the participants were either backers or members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Authorities have said in the past several foreign radical cells were active in the country, including some belonging to Hamas, Hizbullah, and the Muslim Brotherhood...
However, the latest affair is only one example of terror connections discovered in Romania. Earlier this month, it was revealed that authorities in Romania deported five students, led by a Saudi national, accused of having ties to al-Qaeda, with intelligence officials saying the suspected terror cell was attempting to recruit and "brainwash" Muslims in the country.
What is it about Romania that makes it such an ideal breeding ground for Islamist terrorism? The article has one explanation...
Romania has stepped up its efforts to counter extremists following the September 11 attacks and later ratified the international convention on halting the financing of radical groups. "However, due to widespread poverty and political instability, the country remains an ideal breeding ground for terrorism, "military analyst Radu Tudor told the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) back in 2002.
... but we think it would be an oversight to neglect the ideological predispositions that Romania historically shares with radical Muslims:
The tragedy of the Romanian Jewry remains one of the most neglected chapters in the history of the Holocaust... No country, with the exception of Germany, was involved in massacres of Jews on such a large scale...
"There were also instances when the Germans actually had to step in to restrain and slow down the pace of the Romanian measures. At such times the Romanians were moving too fast for the German bureaucracy." (The Destruction of the European Jews, pg. 759)
Methods used to wipe out large number of Jews did not include gas camps or other methods use in Nazi Germany, but more primitive practices such as suffocation, starvation, and hanging.
Ynet, in cooperation with popular Romanian daily Evenimentul Zilei, has launched an investigation in an attempt to elicit additional information on the two Arab-Israeli dentists arrested on charges of Hamas activity as well as their school environment in Romania... According to information elicited by the Romanian newspaper, during winter Muslim students would gather at a building in the school’s dorms and apparently turned the place into a mosque. A veteran counter-terrorism officer said two imams would run the religious ceremonies and confirmed that many of the participants were either backers or members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Authorities have said in the past several foreign radical cells were active in the country, including some belonging to Hamas, Hizbullah, and the Muslim Brotherhood...
However, the latest affair is only one example of terror connections discovered in Romania. Earlier this month, it was revealed that authorities in Romania deported five students, led by a Saudi national, accused of having ties to al-Qaeda, with intelligence officials saying the suspected terror cell was attempting to recruit and "brainwash" Muslims in the country.
What is it about Romania that makes it such an ideal breeding ground for Islamist terrorism? The article has one explanation...
Romania has stepped up its efforts to counter extremists following the September 11 attacks and later ratified the international convention on halting the financing of radical groups. "However, due to widespread poverty and political instability, the country remains an ideal breeding ground for terrorism, "military analyst Radu Tudor told the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) back in 2002.
... but we think it would be an oversight to neglect the ideological predispositions that Romania historically shares with radical Muslims:
The tragedy of the Romanian Jewry remains one of the most neglected chapters in the history of the Holocaust... No country, with the exception of Germany, was involved in massacres of Jews on such a large scale...
"There were also instances when the Germans actually had to step in to restrain and slow down the pace of the Romanian measures. At such times the Romanians were moving too fast for the German bureaucracy." (The Destruction of the European Jews, pg. 759)
Methods used to wipe out large number of Jews did not include gas camps or other methods use in Nazi Germany, but more primitive practices such as suffocation, starvation, and hanging.
