Suspicions confirmed: Liverpool bomber was a Mohammedan

If followers of Jesus Christ are called "Christians", what do you call followers of othe Prophet of the "Religion of Peace"? Why, "Mohammedans", of course.

Mohammedan (also spelled Muhammadan, Mahommedan, Mahomedan or Mahometan) is a term for a follower of Mohammed, the Prophet of Islam. It is used as both a noun and an adjective, meaning belonging or relating to, either Muhammad or the religion, doctrines, institutions and practices that he established. For some reason, the term "Mohammedan" has fallen into disuse, replaced nowadaysa by "Muslims", and sometimes "Islamists", although the latter term has a whiff of the Islamophobic about it. 

We mention "Islamists", in the sense of "Islamic terrorists", just in case it's not clear who Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the Disunited Kingdom, had in mind when he urged Brits to "be vigilant", as he announced that the UK's terror threat level was raised to '"severe" following the unintended suicide of a man who was trapped in a Liverpool taxi when the IED he was holding went off prematurely.

Why the alarm? Well, as Walt predicted (lifetime pct .990), the "man" turned out to be one Emad Jamil Al Swealmeen,a failed asylum seeker of Syrian and Iraqi heritage. He washed up on the shores of the UK several years ago, and in his bid to stay, changed his name to Enzo Almeni, in order to sound "more western". He also swore that he had converted to Christianity.

The late Mr Almeni (or Mr Al Swealmeen, whatever) was a pizza chef who police said had been living at a hostel for asylum seekers in Sutcliffe Street, Liverpool, for some time before renting what they called a "bomb factory" two miles away.

The sincerity of his conversion has no doubt already been tested in the next life, where, if the whole thing was a trick to gain entry to Europe for the purpose of killing infidels, he is doubtless being serviced by 72 virgins, even as we speak. 

But there will certainly be others. Inspector Knacker has advised Prime Minister Johnson that another attack on British soil is now "highly likely." This one came exactly a month after Conservative MP Sir David Amess was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Let's see what happens in the two weeks or so before Christmas.