There has been general shock at the attempted downing of Northwest Airlines flight 253 over Detroit. It isn\u2019t just that yet another aeroplane terrorist atrocity was averted only by luck and courage after US and British intelligence were caught with their pants down once again. Nor is it just the lax airport security.<\/p>\n
No, the real amazement has been that the perpetrator, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is a Nigerian who apparently got his orders from al-Qa\u2019eda in Yemen; that the genesis of the pants bomber\u2019s radical journey lies not in Iraq or Afghanistan, nor in Israel\/Palestine, but in Africa.<\/p>\n
It was while at school in Togo that Abdulmutallab reportedly adopted the most belligerent version of Islam. As a fully fledged Islamic extremist, he was naturally received with open arms in Londonistan, where he was further radicalised to terrorism before being kitted out in Yemen with the latest accessories of mass murder.<\/p>\n
He is first and foremost a religious fanatic \u201d\u201d and the crucial context for his extremism is Africa.<\/p>\n