In FrontPage today I discuss the NYPD's plan to give mosques special protection during Ramadan (news links in the original):
The New York Police Department on Tuesday announced plans to beef up security around New York City mosques for Ramadan.This is an understandable step. After all, it has long been known that the Saudis control 80% of the mosques in the United States. As long ago as January 1999, the Naqshbandi Sufi leader Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani declared in a State Department Open Forum that Islamic supremacists controlled most mosques in America: “The most dangerous thing that is going on now in these mosques,” he said, “that has been sent upon these mosques around the United States – like churches they were established by different organizations and that is ok – but the problem with our communities is the extremist ideology. Because they are very active they took over the mosques; and we can say that they took over more than 80% of the mosques that have been established in the US. And there are more than 3000 mosques in the US. So it means that the methodology or ideology of extremist has been spread to 80% of the Muslim population, but not all of them agree with it.”
Terrorism expert Yehudit Barsky affirmed the same thing in 2005. She said that 80% of the mosques in this country “have been radicalized by Saudi money and influence.” The Saudis would build large mosques for immigrant Muslim communities in the United States, and send a Saudi imam to staff the new facility. The Saudis, said Barsky, have spent as much as $80 billion on such efforts over the last thirty years.
Note also that hate propaganda of just this kind has been found in American mosques -- which should not be surprising not only because of the Saudi connection but because much of this is mainstream Islamic teaching. The Center for Religious Freedom found in 2005 that hate propaganda against Jews and Christians fills Saudi textbooks used in Islamic schools in America, and in June 2008 federal investigators found that the Islamic Saudi Academy in Virginia, despite promises to stop teaching such material, was still using books that advocated that apostates from Islam be executed and that it was permissible for Muslims to kill and seize the property of “polytheists.”Incidentally, the 1999 valedictorian of the Islamic Saudi Academy was Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who is now serving thirty years in prison for joining an Al-Qaeda plot to kill Bush.
And finally, note that jihadist activity tends to increase during Ramadan. According to Professor Nizar Hamzeh, a specialist on political Islam at the American University of Beirut, “Ramadan is a month of commitment and renewal to their faith and also to their cause, whether by military or nonmilitary jihad. It is a month of martyrdom and commitment to one’s Islamic ideology.”
In light of all that, it’s easy to see why it would be altogether fitting and proper for the NYPD to heighten security around city mosques during Ramadan. However, that is not what is happening. The New York Daily News ran a story with the headline “NYPD beefs up security for Ramadan,” and readers might have been forgiven for thinking that New York cops would be on alert against terror attacks possibly coming during the month in which Muslims redouble their efforts to serve Allah -- right? Wrong. In reality, the NYPD is beefing up its protection of the mosques themselves. Apparently they are under threat from venomous Islamophobes, and that threat heightens during Ramadan. “Local precincts,” said the report, “will dispatch more officers on foot patrol and in squad cars to patrol the areas surrounding the mosques during the month-long religious observance that begins on Monday.” New York police officers “will also be briefed on the religious guidelines specific to Ramadan in anticipation of the observances,” and “community leaders” were “warned to be mindful of the mosque’s donation boxes, some of which were robbed last year.”
Any vigilante attack against any mosque in the U.S. is wrong and stupid, and to be condemned. But this is just another indication of how CAIR’s hate crimes propaganda, trumped-up as it is, rules the day: the mosques are well protected, but how well protected are the potential victims of the jihadists who may be inside those mosques? Unfortunately, it is increasingly too politically incorrect to worry much about them. Polls show that fewer Americans believe that terrorism is a serious threat now than at any time since before 9/11. “Islamophobia” is the problem, not Islamic terrorism. But as we march bravely into this grand new future, we may suffer a rude awakening or two, courtesy of people who were duly grateful that their mosques were so ably guarded during Ramadan.
i just can't believe that people think that terrorism goes away. i mean its flashed on the news like everyday. right?
/sarc
I wonder if there is an intrepid news organization in the US that has the cojones to do what was done in Great Britain and to make an undercover documentary on what really goes on behind the closed doors in mosques when unbelievers are not in attendance? What a revelation that would be.
"I wonder if there is an intrepid news organization in the US that has the cojones to do what was done in Great Britain and to make an undercover documentary on what really goes on behind the closed doors in mosques when unbelievers are not in attendance?"
-- from a posting above
But there is another, more immediately obvious question: is there an American television channel that will re-broadcast, for American viewers, the British "undercover documentary" about mosques in London? That needn't wait. That's not hard to do.
And, while that is being shown, others can get to work on secret tapings of khutbas in American mosques, or for that matter, even tapings of the sly attempts at Taqiyya-and-Tu-Quoque that are a staple of those presentations of Mosque Outreach Nights. A compilation of such tapes would make for useful viewing, not only by those likely to be otherwise taken in by those Outreach affairs but for the wider public.
At the very least, such efforts will no doubt lead to more circumspect sermons. And if there are outraged cries about the "chilling effect" of such taping, one can point out the absurdity of claiming that we are not entitled to find out when blood-curdling statements about Infidels are made behind our backs.
And if this makes the conduct of good old Muslim mosque life -- as conducted everywhere in Dar al-Islam -- more difficult in the United States? So what? We are not here to make the conduct of Muslim life, including the dissemination of views dangerous to our physical and civilizational health, easier. We are here to preserve ourselves against those who do not wish us well, wish us -- by our lights, not Muslim lights -0 ill and, given the immutable texts and tenets of Islam, can't really help themselves from so doing. But we can help them.
"Any vigilante attack against any mosque in the U.S. is wrong and stupid, and to be condemned."
Agreed. But, has that happened, in New York? Has it happened anywhere in America?
If it has, it's not exactly a fad, or I'd remember it.
The surreality of life in America has gone beyond the Orwellian.
I'll bet it's frustrating to jihadis to kill thousands of people in one day's work, without provocation of any kind, and on their home turf--Then have the victim country and her people refuse to riot, bomb, shoot, and destroy, as Muslims would.
It's very like the provocative "art" using Christ as an object to profane, and the way Christians don't riot, bomb, shoot and destroy, as Muslims would...
Another example of draining "infidel" resources by and for Muslims.
New York isn't the only place where infidel tax dollars are being spent for mosque security. Last year the Council on American-Islamic Relations (note the compound modifier denoting two separate and distinct entities) posted this "action alert" calling upon "American mosques and other Islamic institutions" to apply for Department of Homeland Security grants "to receive training and to purchase equipment such as video cameras, alarm systems and other security enhancements," with an eye toward "target-hardening."
www.cair-net.org/default.asp?Page=articleView&id=502&theType=AA
It is a grotesque irony that this $24 million DHS program was intended to protect "organizations who are deemed high-risk for a potential international terrorist attack."
A few more thoughts on this:
http://greenspiece.blogspot.com/2008/09/securing-whom-from-what.html
I dunno, Robert. I kinda like the idea of the NYPD keeping an eye on mosques during Ramadan, even if it's under the guise of protecting the mosques. 9/11 is coming up. We all know that there is more danger from the mosques than to the mosques. So does the NYPD. Let them do their job.
(I kinda wonder if the cops will set up one of those hyrdolic watchtowers in front of the Albanian mosque here on Staten Island. I'll have to take a look next time I ride Bus 52.)
I live in New York and I had to laugh at the idea that people are taken in by this pretense. It's beautiful, we all know why the NYPD's presence is elevated, but the Muslims cannot say anything because it's "for their protection". We need more clever schemes like this throughout the US.
It's a great use of taxpayers money... If Obama gets elected he'll probably make them dress like Muslims - you know, to fit in better.
"Last year the Council on American-Islamic Relations (note the compound modifier denoting two separate and distinct entities)..."
Papa Whiskey,
This was one of the first things I noticed, about the organization. It's an "us versus them" kind of thing, isn't it?
Had they used the more common type of compound modifier (thanks for reminding me of proper English grammar, by the way), "Muslim-American", as in African-American, Native-American, etc., it would have greatly softened the impact. But I think this hardness is intentional.
After all, only Muslims and their so-called heretics are Islamic.
I'm glad New York's Finest are guarding New Yorkers from the products of Ramadan. I'm sure they had to listen to a lot of baloney about the Un-holiday of Skipped Lunch, before they hit the streets. I hope it went in one ear, and out the other, leaving them cops, and nothing but cops.
I'm sure it did. I wish my own County Sheriff's office would be a visible presence, in my neighborhood, during Un-holiday of Skipped Lunch.
Like Mick_n_NYC, I also live in NY and I also laughed at this contrived yanking of the NYPD's chain by NYC Muslims. This is just another way for Muslims to place themselves on equal footing with the Jewish residents of New York, who also request added police presence during the Jewish High Holy Days. Muslims in general hate to see Jews get something that they don't receive themselves. This perceived inequality makes them feel inferior, which is one of the driving forces behind why Islam is historically littered with examples of compensating supremacist behavior.
The irony is that NYC Jews receive threats from Muslim groups during the Jewish High Holy Days while NYC Muslims receive threats from ghosts, goblins, gremlins and other fabricated concepts that materialize from within their basement offices where most of their public relations ideas are conceived.
Update: I ventured to Manhattan yesterday, and witnessed a surge of 20 cop cars in a row on East 14th Street, where there are no mosques, no way, no how. (Not even the Saudis can afford those rents!)
Skevin,
Good to see there's actually another SI'er who is not enamored of that Albanian mosque.
Or six of the seven others that, mysteriously, no longer come up quickly on a Google search of SI mosques. Despite the fact that Staten Island's "voting demographics", according to both the NY Times and the local paper, are becoming more Muslim:
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/07/13/nyregion/13votermap.ready.html
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/new_wave_of_ethnic_voters_will.html
(Actually, I see from the comments section of the local paper that there are more who are aware of the problem of Islam than I'd have thought, given casual conversations I've had here.)