Striking a blow against the trade deficit. In Human Events today:
The five young northern Virginia Muslims arrested in Pakistan for trying to join jihadist groups offer an intriguing example of role reversal. Instead of jihad terrorists training in the Middle East to come to the United States, a la Muhammad Atta and co., this group started out in the U.S. and went over there. Nor are they the only examples of America's brisk new export trade in jihadists -- there are also the Somalis who have been streaming home from Minneapolis to join the jihad in their homeland.Both Somalia and Pakistan have so many jihadis that they have no need to import more, but in both countries right now jihad is a growth industry.
Among the many lingering questions about this case is that of how these five young men fell in with jihad groups in the first place. The local Muslim community professed anguish and puzzlement about how it could have happened. Ashraf Nubani, an attorney for the mosque the five attended, said of their relatives and fellow worshippers: "There's shock and disbelief in these families and in this mosque." Mahdi Bray of the Falls Church-based Muslim American Society, sounded a plaintive note: "We want to know: What did we miss? We saw these kids every day. In hindsight, what could we have done?"
The five frequented an Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) mosque in Alexandria, Virginia, where the youth leader, Mustafa Maryam, insisted: "Our group never talked about politics." Essan Talawi, an imam at the mosque, said that "the teachings of this mosque are the Koran, moderation, tolerance and peaceful interaction with our neighbors and other faiths."
They would have us believe that these young men turned to violent jihad at the same time and spontaneously. But there is every reason to think otherwise.
Talawi may have had in mind a very different idea of "moderation, tolerance and peaceful interaction" from the one that generally prevails in the U.S. According to Steven Emerson's Investigative Project, at ICNA's Annual Conference in 2001, ICNA president Zulfiqar Ali Shah led the crowd in a chant of "our way, our way, is jihad, jihad."...
Mahdi Bray of the Falls Church-based Muslim American Society, sounded a plaintive note: "We want to know: What did we miss? We saw these kids every day. In hindsight, what could we have done?"
I have some suggestions - but since they involve discarding about two thirds of the Qur'an and large parts of the Sira, aHadith, Shariah law and the 1400 years of Islamic exgesis, somehow I don't think that this kuffar's advice will resonate with the ummah.
"... there are also the Somalis who have been streaming home from Minneapolis to join the jihad in their homeland."
More of a trickle so far, rather than a stream. Still, every little bit helps. And one can hope that their example will inspire more (many more!) of their brethren.
"the teachings of this mosque are the Koran, moderation, tolerance and peaceful interaction with our neighbors and other faiths."
If the teaching of the Koran was moderation etc. a semi-colon would have been used not an apostrophe. As this sentence stands, moderation etc are also taught along with the teachings of the Koran. If you think this is parsing, remember that when a Muslim says it is against Islam to kill innocents, he doesn't mean non-believers. Osama is innocent; an Infidel child is not.
More takiyya and kitman from the followers of the doctrine of Satan.
Indian visa officials were caught napping. The recent arrest of Dawood Gilani, also known as David Coleman Headley( referred to as the "Chicago jihadist" in JW) visited India several times without anyone suspecting him. Headley was a practising Muslim,and had a half American and half Pakistani parentage.
And it turns out that he was one of the guys responsible for one of the worst terror attacks in Mumbai in Nov 2008. Indian officials admitted that they never suspected Americans(especially white) of Jihad terror before this one came to light.