Global threats? What threats?

The world is a dangerous place, and it appears that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper just woke up to this news. He recently announced a call for tenders to 'assess potential threats' to Canada's foreign embassies around the world.:

The Canadian Press

Posted: Dec 18, 2011

Haitians wait outside the Canadian Embassy in Port-au-Prince on Jan. 20, 2010. The Foreign Affairs Department plans to commission an intelligence study of potential threats to Canada's foreign embassies and missions. (MINUSTAH/Marco Dormino/Reuters)

The Foreign Affairs Department plans to spend up to $5 million next year for a sweeping intelligence study of potential threats to Canada's foreign embassies and missions.

The department is soliciting bids from seasoned security intelligence firms to tell them about the possible threats to its diplomatic corps from terrorism, instability and natural disasters in 174 countries, including 46 major cities...

More from the CBC here.

Really? Hello? I always thought that it was the ongoing mandate of DFAIT and our embassies to know about local and global malcontents and terrorists, and that was what taxes paid for. Apparently not, and yet, even if that is not the case, I find it hard to believe that somebody within the government hasn't been aware of the ongoing - very visible - attacks on embassies. I find it incomprehensible that the Canadian government hasn't connected the dots as the daily news has blared headlines from Libya, Egypt, Syria, Africa, Turkey, etc etc etc... The list is long of countries where terrorism - whose face IS Islam - stalks and murders innocent citizens. (Just one example from Christmas Day in Nigeria, or in Iran.)

Maybe the recent blatant attack on the British embassy in Tehran gave Harper a clue.

The Canadian contract may be worth up to $5 million, but some of us who HAVE been paying attention can tell any global leader, for free, about the who and the what of ongoing threats around the world.

War On Terror News is one who watches closely, and understands what PM Harper seemingly needs to pay big bucks to understand:

12/26/2011

The Growing Power & Threat of Islamism

A while back, I created a map overlay demonstrating the worldwide threats, with a focus on Islamism but also including secular and Communist regimes that ideologically or violently oppose us. The world has changed since then. Reluctant allies have distanced themselves in the last 3 years. Lasting allies have fallen. Old enemies have fallen to new enemies. And my current picture editor isn't as good as the one I had then.

There is one small speck of good change in the world. The Sudan split into two nations, helping to decrease the mass genocide of Islamists killing Christians and Animists in the newest Nation of South Sudan. The South Sudanese have an uphill battle to establish their new government and this success began its path years ago. North Sudan remains Islamist, in greater concentration.

Unfortunately, Islamism has spread dramatically in the last year, both in its violent attacks and in its takeovers of governments. Tunisia was the first to fall, followed by Egypt, while the Islamist party of Turkey retained its power. Some have hailed these as successes for democracy, but it is a failure of US Foreign Policy and a blow to Freedom.

The Obama Administration's response to seeing mass protests against an old ally was precisely as was the Carter Administration's. Both in Tehran 1978 and Cairo 2011, the Administration urged a Military Coup against an allied leader. The difference is that the Egyptian Generals were actually able to hold the reins of power for a short period of time, while the Iranian Generals had never really taken the concept as reasonable. In both cases, the protestors were a mix of those supporting Freedom and Democracy and those supporting Islamism. Forces for Democracy outnumbered forces for Islamism, but the Islamists were better organized...

Much more here.

Yes, the Islamists are better organised and opportunitistic. As has been proven over the years, Islamists always exploit civil unrest to further their oft-stated goal of domination of local citizenry, either through the mass murder of nay-sayers, or at the ballot box - and often both in concert. Nobody needs a PoliSci degree to see the growing threat of Islam around the world.

By the time any embassy is under attack from terrorists masquerading as students, it is already far too late to be asking about global threats.

This is really no time to be asleep at the wheel. Mr Harper? Pay attention.