Here is my column in FrontPage this morning, discussing the denial and obfuscation coming from Muslims in Dallas in the wake of Hosam Smadi's jihad plot:
Late in September, a Muslim named Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, was arrested after placing an inert car bomb at a 60-story office tower in downtown Dallas. In March 2009, according to his indictment in U.S. District Court, Smadi declared his intention to wage war in the name of Islam. Yet characteristically, if dispiritingly, Muslims in the Dallas area are now expressing fears of a "backlash," rather than taking the hard steps necessary to make sure there are no more jihad plotters who are inspired by Islamic teachings, as was Hosam Smadi.Smadi was very clear about the Islamic motivation for his plot: "I truly say it that [sic] my dream is to be among God's soldiers, first for the support of Islam and my beloved Sheik Usama, may God give him long life." He decried the "world plan to destroy Islam, Muslims, and to seize their lands for the benefit of the Jews and for the love of infidelity." He swore: "In the name of God, the Gracious and Merciful, this is my vow to you, my brother, that I am ready. And if you were a lover of Jihad as I am, then, by God, I am ready for the Jihadi life." And he affirmed: "The reign is only for the living and powerful God."
Smadi also said that "with the permission of the Almighty Lord of the Worlds, we will have victory and allies from God Almighty. He is the powerful and helpful. Victory is coming, is coming to defeat the Romans [i.e., Christians] and for the destruction of the Jews. God is Most Great. We shall attack them in their very homes."
Yet despite the strong Islamic content of Smadi's statements, Islamic spokesmen have - instead of honestly acknowledging Smadi's Islamic motivation and offering steps toward reform of the elements of Islam that incited Smadi to violence - disingenuously pretended that Smadi's Islam was incidental to his terror plot. Chief among those practicing this deception was Salam al-Marayati of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). Al-Marayati complained, according to the Dallas Morning News, that "when non-Muslims commit extreme acts, they are quickly dismissed as being crazy or weird or having some deep-seated emotional problem, and are not viewed as representative of an entire group of people. But Muslim bad actors, he said, don't get the same treatment. 'When a Christian does something ... that's how it's reported, that they happen to be a Christian,' Al-Marayati said. 'But if it's a Muslim, it's as if it's the [Muslim] religion that's driving it."
Of course, it was manifestly the Muslim religion that was driving Smadi, but Al-Marayati said nothing about that. He pretended not to notice the elephant in the living room - the fact that people see the Muslim religion as driving terrorist acts not because of some inveterate "Islamphobia," but because Islamic jihadists say that that's what drives them. Just days ago the American-born jihadist Anwar al-Awlaki exhorted Muslims: "Whenever you see the word terrorism, replace it with the word jihad." Jihad, of course, is a concept of Islamic theology. And al-Awlaki was not alone.
Yes, the same old song. Muslims do something that they know Infidels won't take kindly to, and then they simper about "backlash".
It's just their way of saying "roll over and take it without complaining, Infidel".
It's about time the backlash started happening.
This is obviously Islamic supremacism, but if and when you name it you put Muslims under siege anad paint them with a broad brush, these poor innocent and peaceful lads.
This is slightly OT, but we need the help of all JihadWatchers regardless where they're from
http://meideu.de/jetzt-eintragen
This is a petition in behalf of free speech, it's for Thilo Sarrazin, a banker in Berlin who got himself into trouble because he told the truth about Muslim migrants who are unwilling to integrate. Please, sign this petition, it's anonymous, your names won't be published, only the number of undersigned. Thanks for your help.
From the 'whine, cry, and sob' department...
'But if it's a Muslim, it's as if it's the [Muslim] religion that's driving it."
HMM Sherlock, I wonder why 'that' is?
This is simply Muslim projection. We see all sorts of "backlash" in Muslim countries. Infidels are always accused of "insulting" Islam. Then, of course, all infidels in the area are fair game to mobs of Islamic "scholars" attempting to kill them.
Muslims think that something of this sort will happen. In reality, it won't, but if you haven't noticed, Islam forces Muslims to behave irrationally.
Yes, and they are condemned, admonished and punished openly, publically, for their extreme acts by "an entire group of people", the law and the vast majority of the citizens in this land.
Yes, we've noticed that.
Yes, and they are condemned, admonished and punished openly, publically, for their extreme acts by "an entire group of people", the law and the vast majority of the citizens in this land.
Yes, we've noticed that.
People, the "Dallas Morning News" is Dhimmified as-all-get-out. The publishers and reporters are ignorant as-all-get-out. Their articles made all sorts of excuses for Smadi, instead of putting the blame where it belongs - on the Jihad ideology of Islam.
Hi epistemology,
I was going to ask you if you had heard of Thilo Sarrazin. For other JW readers, here's a good article from Diana West's blog about his plight:
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1082/Fighting-the-Reign-of-Islamic-Correctness.aspx
Diana West writes:
"Who would have thought that a 64-year-old Bundesbank director from Berlin would emerge as a free-thinking, clear-thinking iconoclast striking out at the Reign of Islamic Correctness in Germany? His take on Germany's Islamic immigration woes includes the proposition that Berlin never recovered intellectually or artistically from having murdered its Jewish population during the Nazi regime, with the resulting vaccuum having been filled by left-wing activists, drop-outs and a Turkish-Arab underclass."
epistemology, about the online petition, my German is a little rusty, and I don't know whether to click "JA" or "NEIN"! Can you help? Thanks.
Ja = Yes, Nein = No
Enjoy :)
'Backlash'. It's one of many tactics of moslem victimhood.
Pay no attention.
Clean house and there will no longer be a fear of backlash in the future. Perhaps Islam is incapable of maintaining a clean house.
Future headline: "Moslem clerics predict anti-islamicic backlash after tomorrow's suicide bombing."