La Alianza de Civis, sin Manolo el del Bombo

«Han sido motivos personales los que le han impedido acudir» afirmaba la secretaria de organización de las jornadas sobre la Alianza de Civis de Zapatero superguay. Las otras ausencias son lógicas si tenemos en cuenta lo apretado de las agendas en estas fechas, todas juntitas para darse calor y evitar así encender las calefacciones emisoras de CO2, asesinas del planeta.

Bromas aparte: no ha venido ni «el Tato», como era de esperar. En política internacional, quijotadas las justas. Excepto si te llamas Zapatero o Moratinos. Pero ellos no cuentan, luego no importa. Leerán estos días sesudas editoriales en los medios nacionales, la mayoría defendiendo la pertinencia de la Alianza de Civilizaciones. Les recomiendo que las lean todas. Pero les ruego que impriman los dos artículos que les traigo y los lean con atención tras cada ración de aliancismo periodístico-opinativo.

Del primero les adelanto esto:

As many as 1,500 white Britons are believed to have converted to Islam for the purpose of funding, planning and carrying out surprise terror attacks inside the UK, according to one MI5 source.

Lord Carlile, the Government’s independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation, said many of the converts had been targeted by radical Muslims while serving prison terms.

Del segundo, esto otro:

The recruitment and organization of ideological extremists in prison systems and armed forces is a centuries-old problem, as is the difficulty that civil societies have had in understanding and confronting the matter. While in tsarist prisons, Stalin and Dzerzhinsky organized murderers and other hardened criminals who would lead the Bolsheviks and their Cheka secret police. Hitler credited his time in prison as an opportunity to reflect and write Mein Kampf. Terrorist inmates and others communicate and organize among themselves and with the outside world via the rather open nature of our correctional system, and are known to do so in secret with collaborative lawyers by abusing the attorney-client relationship.

Islamists terrorists view conversions of non-Muslims to Islamism as vital to their effort. Europeans and Americans from non-Muslim backgrounds do not fit the terrorist profile. They know their societies far better than immigrant terrorists, and they blend in seamlessly. They also have Western passports. Some analysts view the conversions as a new generation of political and social protest against the West and toward the «Third World.» According to a recent report:

«The young people in working-class urban areas are against the system, and converting to Islam is the ultimate way to challenge the system,» said Roy, a director of the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. «They convert to stick it to their parents, to their principal… They convert in the same way people in the 1970s went to Bolivia or Vietnam. I see a very European tradition of identifying with a Third World cause.»

The converts are useful to a new al Qaeda strategy of «training the trainers,» a method that the increasingly decentralized organization used to export terrorism to other countries.

Pues eso, que ustedes lo aliancen bien. Yo, desde luego, soy más exigente a la hora de escoger a mis amigos.