A mosque is an Islamic fortress, a place meant not just for ceremonial prayers and Islamic rituals but for the storage and distribution of Islamic propaganda and weapons. Mosques, other than those temporary places rented out till a fortress can be built, are usually private property belonging to non-Muslims. A real mosque won't bun: it's made of re-enforced concrete. Things inside might burn but not the mosque. Burning someone else's place is easy. Burning a mosque is near impossible. The mosque itself isn't important. It's just a building. What happens inside the mosque is the problem, if it is a problem. Someone else's building is not a good target to begin ones struggle against jihadis.
Not all people who frequent a mosque are jihadis. Most are simply peasant immigrants, in the case below from Uzbekistan. Yes, Muslims. Not, not necessarily jihadis. Enemies of Swedish culture, probably, but not necessarily jihadis. It makes a difference. Peasants are peasants. They aren't worth anyone's trouble. Why bother with them when there are serious problems one might deal with?
Why would Swedes attack Uzbekis? They are primitive people, and they pose little threat to Sweden or even to the government of Uzbekistan itself. What benefit is there in attacking sheep and goats, acting like mad fools, like Ajax, whom the gods destroyed by first making him mad? A fool's victory. Someone is not thinking clearly.
But even were this mosque a flammable Sunni or Shi'ite mosque financed by Saudi Arabia or Iran, what is the gain? What is the profit in a pile of ashes? In a combat zone one looks for positive effect. Drama is not on the programme. But there is some benefit here, which we can look at below.
Sweden: Mosque attacked
A fire was set to a mosque in Strömsund (Jämtland) Thursday night. The mosque, which is located in the basement of an apartment block, serves the local Muslims, mostly immigrants and refugees from Uzbekistan.
The fire burned along the wall under the window. The police found burned cartons inside and did not find any natural causes for the fire, says Per Hanspik, police forensic investigator.
Police are taking the case very seriously and have given it top priority. Thomas Gutke, heading the investigation, doesn't rule out hate crime, but says that it's currently classified as attempted arson. It might be that the people who've done this can't even spell hate, according to Gutke.
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Anders Fabricius, the municipality refugee coordinator, says that the mosque has a great symbolic value and that the incident causes fear of being subjected to persecution after fleeing it in their homeland.
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In a separate story on the same subject we read the following:
On Friday evening several people tried breaking into the temporary mosque, set up after the fire. Several mosque members were inside at the time.
At 23:10pm police received a report that several people were involved in a fight in central Strömsund. When they arrived at the scene they found about 50 people outside the temporary mosque.
Anders Fabricius was called up and says that when he arrived there were many youth outside on the street and a gang of intoxicated youth tried to force the doors to the mosque.
According to police officer Magnus Hamstig the police had received reports of assault, illegal threats, vandalism and illegal entry. One 25 year old reported he was beaten, two windows were broken and two people had entered the mosque. They have identified four people as suspects. The fight had moved from another part of town to the mosque and it was there that the vandalism and illegal entry occurred.
Hamstig says that there is no connection between the fire in the mosque and the fight, and there is no indication that the same people are responsible for both. He says he thinks these are two separate incidents.
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"[T]the mosque has a great symbolic value and that the incident causes fear of being subjected to persecution ...."
It's a real stretch to see this as anything interesting. Scaring a bunch of illiterate peasants isn't anything one should brag about. In no way does this attack on a privately owned building rival the efforts of the jihadis on any significant level. One can be sure the mosque does not have any symbolic importance to the Muslims who used it. To them it's just a building. Causing fear among the peasants? Not significant. Who cares if some goat herders are nervous? The question is will such activities drive any of them into the arms of serious jihadis? If so, then one might claim some small success. To tighten the tensions between those who are jihadis and those who are passive but supportive is the key. Will this action move potential jihadis into radical arms? If so, then one knows. If not, then to the good, they are not a threat.
"[A]t the scene they found about 50 people outside the temporary mosque."
There are now about 50 people who have a direct and conscious opinion about Islam in Sweden. Some of those are Muslims. Regardless, about 50 people have entered the Combat Zone.
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