Every other story I have seen about this arrest identifies the man who was arrested only as Jose Pimentel, an "Al-Qaeda sympathizer," as if he were a non-Muslim who somehow had gotten the idea that Al-Qaeda was great, and thought he might detonate a bomb. But actually he was Muhammad Yusuf, yet another convert to Islam who somehow misunderstood his new, peaceful religion. Yet one thing is certain in the wake of this arrest: no one will be calling for an investigation into what mosques are teaching to converts. Anderson Cooper will not be on it. Bill Maher will pass. Chris Matthews will take no notice. And no other media outlet mentions his Muslim name because they don't think it is important. He is a terrorist, but his Islamic faith is unconnected to that. Coincidental. That it likely forms his motivations and goals in this plot is not a possibility they are willing to consider.
"Man Arrested and Charged in Bomb Plot," by Joseph Goldstein and William K. Rashbaum for the New York Times, November 20 (thanks to Axel):
Updated 7:47 p.m. | The authorities have arrested a man who law enforcement officials believe was planning to build and detonate a bomb in New York with government workers, returning military personnel and elected officials as the target, two people briefed on the case said on Sunday....The defendant in the case, identified as Jose Pimentel, 27, had bought bomb-making materials and “began to build them,” said one person briefed on the case, who added that the Police Department had had the man under surveillance for about a year.
“The Police Department basically had an informant with this guy,” said a second law enforcement official familiar with the investigation. “The guy is sort of giving to the informant all of these material on bomb building and talking about building a bomb and supporting the mujahedeen by targeting — he’s kind of all over the place; sometimes it’s targeting servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan, sometimes it’s the police, sometimes its build it and test it, but it’s all over the place.”
“He was in the process of building three pipe bombs,” the law enforcement official said. “We weren’t going to wait around to figure out what he wanted do with his bombs. He was in Harlem about an hour from actually assembling the bombs,” but had all the “unassembled components ready to go.”...
The person briefed on the case described it as a “lone-wolf scenario” and said that Mr. Pimentel had been considering a possible array of targets that included government employees, lawmakers and military personnel returning from overseas service.
Mr. Pimentel, who is also known as Muhammad Yusuf, will face charges that include criminal possession of a weapon in the first degree as a crime of terrorism, which is considered an A-1 violent felony.
Mr. Pimentel made incriminating statements to an informant who was working with the Police Department, investigators said, and those conversations were recorded.
Investigators also said he bought materials to make a bomb at a 99 cent store and at a Home Depot on Exterior Street in the Bronx. At the Home Depot, he bought elbow joints, gloves and Christmas lights. He was under surveillance by the Police Department when he made those purchases.
Under surveillance? Will the Islamophobia never end?
What?
Another terrorist named Muhammad?
Looks like he wanted to target cops. Some things LOE and the rest of us can do to make that unhappen...
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2011/11/grab-some-curb.html
LEO, as in law enforcement officers. Geez.
And, here's how to spot these home-grown ghouls...
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2010/03/this-bitch-jihad-jane------jihad-jane-aka-colleen-trailertrash-larose-jihadjane-licking-off-what-the-finger-bowl-missed.html
According to Bloomberg, it was just another 'lone wolf'.
A lot these things are lone wolves and have no connection to one thing that persist to all of them: jihad!
Btw, that 'lone wolf' has reached 18,000+ jihad attacks since 9/11.
Much as I dearly love Robert's and company, points of view, and stellar work, and much as I don't like and barely can stand Bill Maher and his persona, and most of his attitudes, he does basically get it about islam, really. He is getting pummeled by right and left, but he does get it better than Ron Paul, Chris Christie and too many others, by night and day, and here is the proof of the pudding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcHDUZCyZuA
Maher might have a remark, about this muhammad loser, you never know, but Robert is probably right, I wouldn't bet against Robert, even on this one. I have a feeling that Maher is getting an education, from time to time, about the realities of muslims, in a personal way, as well as reading the ko-ran translated to English. I wouldn't be surprized if he has cracked open jw.org. He's getting smarts of islam from somewhere, better than his producers, only.
I'm continually amazed at how many Muslims misunderstand the peaceful teachings of their meshugana false prophet.
WIKIPEDIA:
Maimonides
Maimonides referred to Muhammad as a false prophet and an insane man. In his Epistle to Yemen he wrote "After [Jesus] arose the Madman who emulated his precursor [Jesus], since he paved the way for him. But he added the further objective of procuring rule and submission [talb al-mulk; pursuit of sovereignty] and he invented what is well known [Islam]."[1]"
Moreover, Maimonides asserted that Muhammad's claim to prophethood was in itself what disqualified him, because it contradicted the prophecy of Moses, the Torah and the Oral Tradition. His argument further asserted that Muhammad being illiterate also disqualified him from being a prophet.[2]
In his authoritative work of law the Mishneh Torah (Hilkhot Melakhim 11:10–12), Maimonides indicated that nevertheless Muhammad was part of God's plan of preparing the world for the coming of the Jewish Messiah: "All those words of Jesus of Nazareth and of this Ishmaelite [i.e., Muhammad] who arose after him are only to make straight the path for the messianic king and to prepare the whole world to serve the Lord together. As it is said: 'For then I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech so that all of them shall call on the name of the Lord and serve him with one accord' (Zephaniah 3:9)."[3]
Every other story I have seen about this arrest identifies the man who was arrested only as Jose Pimentel, an "Al-Qaeda sympathizer," as if he were a non-Muslim who somehow had gotten the idea that Al-Qaeda was great, and thought he might detonate a bomb. But actually he was Muhammad Yusuf, yet another convert to Islam who somehow misunderstood his new, peaceful religion. Yet one thing is certain in the wake of this arrest: no one will be calling for an investigation into what mosques are teaching to converts.
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Very true. While a handful of these Jihadists really are "radicalized" on the internet, the vast majority of them get their Islam straight from the Imam at the local mosque.
Especially given what a collectivist faith Islam is, the likelihood that Jose Pimentel just decided to convert to Islam one day, then got "radicalized" a while later, then decided to go on Jihad *all on his own* is—well—rather unlikely.
My guess is that ol' Yusuf had plenty of contact with the Ummah before this...
Jose Pimentel, an "Al-Qaeda sympathizer," as if he were a non-Muslim who somehow had gotten the idea that Al-Qaeda was great, and thought he might detonate a bomb.
Cynic.
*** Bukhari Vol 4 Bk 52 Nbr 220 ***
Mohammed said, "I have been made victorious with terror."
Instead of a judge having to do backflips to hold the 6th Pillar at bay, and paying millions to incarcerate him in a taxpayer-funded Dawa Detention Facility, at this point doesn't it make more sense just to allow them detonate their damned bombs and let the chips fall where they may? What good is all this undercover work? It's not discouraging anybody except overworked prosecutors.
No Means Go
Lo! I say no! I say no to No! Go ahaid, let 'em blow!
Moslems activists will not be stopped, won't be strictured
They've been well scriptured and they just know, let 'em go! Lo!
His hairy haid thrown back laughing on FoxNews, Ahmed pictured.
- the Holy Prophet APF
Excellent, undaunted!
@TJFREEDOMJIHAD
Bill Maher is a godless atheist libertarian, but then I repeat myself. He thinks all religions are for idiots. He has cojones to ridicule Islam which most atheists do not. Of course Pat Condell is the foremost courageous atheist debunker of Islam.
If this man had been a Christian 60 minutes and MSNBC's Chris Matthews would have had a field day with the story. Leslie Stahl would be investigating his roots back to the Tea Party movement or some "right-wing radical group" associated with Timothy McVeigh.
They would probably nickname him "The Scarlet Pimental".
No mention of his Muslim name, Muhammad Yusuf, comes out in the left-wing MS media. He's just one of those "lone-wolf" terrorists.
No mention of him getting his bomb-making ideas from the "Al Qaeda kitchen".
It's just another of the big cover-ups meant to appease the Islamic population so as not to get the burkas in knots and cause rioting. What a bunch of cowardly Dhimmis we have running our government offices.
> Jihad Watch writers Robert Spencer and Raymond Ibrahim
Nice photo of two of my favorite writers.
With the beards, ya kinda even look a little bit the same. (except for height!)
Keep up the good work, both of you!