This is a rather odd news item about several al-Qaida records which have recently been discovered released. Among the letters and other paraphernalia (including an exhortation to assassinate the President in order to profit from the asserted incompetence of the Vice President) is the speculation of one Adam Gadahn, “American al-Qaida spokesman” (I had not realized that there were national spokespeople for terrorist organizations), who said this about Catholicism in Ireland:
I noticed the sympathy of the Irish people to the Palestinian issue, and the soft treatment by the Irish Judicial system of Muslims accused of terrorism, and also not participating with its troops in [President George W.] Bush’s Crusade wars . . . . The other matter is the increasing anger in Ireland towards the Catholic Church after exposing a number of sex scandals . . . . The people there are moving towards secularism, after it was the most religious of atheist Europe, and why do not we face them with Islam?
“recently been discovered”? These were documents seized in the raid that killed Bin Laden. Are you intentionally not stating that fact? It is a kinda critical indicator of their origin…
No, DHM Carver, I am not “intentionally not stating that fact,” but thanks for the benefit of the doubt. The story is a new one because the documents were just released, and I’ve corrected the post to indicate that the documents were not discovered just now, but just released by the military. At least, that’s what the linked story seems to say.