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In FrontPage this morning I discuss the "self-recruited, self-trained, and self-executing" jihadists to which FBI director Robert Mueller recently referred (news links in the original):
The day after seven people were arrested in Miami for trying to raise an “Islamic Army” to wage jihad by mounting terror attacks against the Sears Tower in Chicago and other landmarks, FBI Director Robert Mueller pointed to a new kind of jihad terror threat: “These extremists,” he said, “are self-recruited, self-trained, and self-executing. They answer not to a particular leader but to an ideology. In short, they operate under the radar. And that makes their detection that much more difficult.”The Miami plotters were a case in point. According to the Justice Department, they were charged with “conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, namely al Qaeda; conspiracy to provide material support and resources to terrorists; conspiracy to maliciously damage and destroy by means of an explosive; and conspiring to levy war against the government of the United States.” But they weren’t a sleeper cell of Al-Qaeda operatives; rather, they “allegedly attempted to obtain the support of al Qaeda to achieve their goals and discussed this desire with an individual cooperating with law enforcement who posed as a member of al Qaeda. Believing they were dealing with that terrorist group, in March 2006, Batiste and other defendants pledged an oath of allegiance to al Qaeda and allegedly supported a plan to destroy FBI buildings in the United States by taking photos of the FBI Building in North Miami Beach, Florida, and other federal buildings in Miami-Dade County.”
The plotters were evidently members of the Moorish Science Temple, a bizarre precursor to the Nation of Islam that amalgamates elements of Christianity and Islam. While the Council on American Islamic Relations has asked the media to refrain from calling the group members Muslims, clearly it was the Islamic elements of the group’s strange theology that led them to begin terror plotting. According to the Telegraph, “the basic tenet of Moorish Science is that all black people are born as Muslims and are descended from the Moors, a nomadic North African tribe.” To be sure, the Islam that the Moorish Temple has envisioned has only the most glancing resemblance to orthodox Sunni Islam, but the connection is nevertheless real: the father of the accused ringleader of the plot, Narseal Batiste, has said that his son, according to AP, “was determined to study the Quran despite his urging to remain with Christianity.” And their attempt to make contact with Al-Qaeda makes their allegiances and self-identification abundantly clear.Others recently have also operated below the radar, apparently motivated only by the same ideology that seems to have been the primary impetus of the Sears Tower plot. Initial news stories about Michael Ford, the man who opened fire in a Safeway warehouse, killing one person and injuring five, reported that his mother and sister had ascribed the killings to Ford’s frustration over his treatment as a Muslim: according to the Denver’s ABC 7 News, “Ford’s mother and sister told a local TV reporter that Ford was a kind, caring person, who wouldn't hurt anyone but that he said he was being teased at work because he's a Muslim and he couldn't take it anymore.” However, in later stories family members had changed their story: “Family members said Ford didn't appear to be especially religious, despite some claims made in the media that co-workers had made fun of his Muslim faith. Bobby Ford said he'd never even seen his brother pray, and another brother said he knew he read the Quran, but it didn't appear to be a huge part of his life.”
Still, the “claims in the media” were entirely plausible, particularly given the fact that there are precedents. Last March, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, rented an SUV and drove it through a crowded part of the campus, intentionally trying to hit people and wounding nine. In a series of letters to the student newspaper, the Daily Tar Heel, he explained that he acted in obedience to Qur'anic dictates: “Allah demands of believers to retaliate violently against persons responsible for attacking them or their fellow Believers around the world. ([Qur'an] 2:178-179, 5:45, 8:72, 9:38, 9:71, 42:39-42, 49:10)….Due to my religious motivation for the attack, I feel no remorse and am proud to have carried it out in service of and in obedience of Allah….Considering that I injured several people both physically and psychologically, who were also American taxpayers, I feel that I succeeded in obeying Allah's commandment to fight against the enemies of His followers.”
This is the ideology to which Mueller was referring. And he is right: there is no way to spot a Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar or a Michael Ford (if he was indeed motivated by Islamic rage) in advance. Anyone can read the Qur’an the way Taheri-azar did, and come to the conclusions he came to. But in part this is because American Muslim advocacy groups, for all their self-proclaimed moderation, have done little or nothing to combat the spread of the jihad ideology in American mosques. One might reasonably expect, if they really abhor that ideology as a twisting of Islamic principles as much as they say they do, that they would have developed and implemented comprehensive programs within American mosques to make sure that that ideology does not proliferate within them, and that they would have made it abundantly clear that that ideology is unwelcome and its adherents expelled and reported.
If they did this, Mueller and his colleagues would have a fighting chance to begin to make headway against this ideology. That they have not done so, and have not been called to account by government and law enforcement officials, as well as by the media, for not doing so, is an increasingly serious and glaring omission.
Posted by Robert at June 28, 2006 9:43 AM
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To me this proves what I always say,it isnt a sect of Islam its the Koran. It isnt Shia Islam or Sufi Islam.Funny because what is Wahhabism?..to me in a nutshell,it is going back to the Koran and Mohammad only.Well that would mean all the bad stuff of Wahhabism is THE KORAN. I dont have Style or maybe dont always use the right words....but I know ISLAM IS THE KORAN and MOHAMMAD all the rest.....A SMOKE SCREEN.
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at June 28, 2006 10:45 AM
What kind of deterrent is there for these people? They know if they get caught they get a little trial, slap on the wrist and I'm sure these guys in Miami have a pretty good idea of the criminal court system anyway.
What is wrong with getting serious with these people? If people are planning mass murder, why not look at it as if they committed murder? Let these people know we won't tolerate this and MAYBE....POSSIBLY we won't have to deal with a lot of it in the future.
Posted by: freewoman at June 28, 2006 11:22 AM
Sura after Sura teaches a contempt for the teachings of any other religion but Islam. It teaches that the Bible is corrupted and should not be believed and yet it is abundantly clear that Mohammed drew from the Bible and in particular the New testament for his new religion after years of study that ended up producing the Quran that he claims was given to him from the arch angel Gabriel when he was well into his forties. But not to displease Arabs in Mecca he also introduced much of the paganism that was prevalent at the Kaaba.
His last 24 suras where devoted to the aggressive ideology of Jihad, which where sometimes referred to as the Medina Suras. It is clear that when Mohammed had gained enough followers and enough power he then turned to the violence that is prevalent today that condems,Jews,Christians, and all non muslims.
In the accepted hadiths by I Bukhari there are approximately 283 of them that apply to aggressive jihad of the some 7,000 hadiths Bukhari accepted as valid traditions of Mohammed.
The Quranic, and hadith sources for these home grown jihadists are clear for all to read and yet so many still refuse to acknowledge their existence as the source of so much violence perpetrated across the planted for nearly 1,400 years.
Posted by: Mackie at June 28, 2006 12:19 PM
"Sura after Sura teaches a contempt for the teachings of any other religion but Islam. It teaches that the Bible is corrupted and should not be believed and yet it is abundantly clear that Mohammed drew from the Bible and in particular the New testament for his new religion after years of study that ended up producing the Quran that he claims was given to him from the arch angel Gabriel when he was well into his forties." Quote Mackie
Mackie,
Your thoughts do fit some facts, however it is based on a pre-disposed start, That Mohammed drew from the bible to start a new religion. As you state, He was close to middle age when he started islam, why did he not start sooner? How many people start to take over the world in their late 40's, 50's? Before he was "the leader", he was a soldier.
The koran was given to him by gabriel would also fit the facts, and the god of the koran and the following of islam also fits, if they are indeed following the devil. Perhaps that is the link to the bible, satan is allah, and the koran is his bible, made to conflict with the true word of god. To mislead away from the truth, and give satan his army.
Unless you don't have faith for any of this, then your thoughts would fit.
Posted by: Islofob IS-1 at June 28, 2006 2:08 PM
define: treason
In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A person who betrays the nation of their citizenship and/or reneges on an oath of loyalty and in some way willfully cooperates with an enemy, is considered to be a traitor. Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as: "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason
SMOKE EM!!!
Posted by: squire at June 28, 2006 2:39 PM
I do not entirely agree that the detection of these so-called free-lance jihadists that are operating 'under the radar' are that much more difficult to detect than the more usual jihadist types.
If there's a mosque somewhere there are going to be terrorists (aka jihadists)in that area. Where there's Islam, terrorism (aka jihad) follows in its wake as a matter of course. Where there's smoke, there's fire.
Follow the mosque-bound traffic and that will lead authorities to their jihadists, free-lance and otherwise. Identifying them before they strike is another matter, but then that is generally problematical anyway.
ps-Templar 13: these young men in Miami were probably inspired to action by by their fellow Muslims and local imams. Truly there is nothing surprising or unusual about young Islamized males plotting to destroy edifices within an 'infidel' city! I don't know where you've been living. This incident would almost certainly have happened in America sooner or later even if the social conditions you have brought up mostly weren't applicable (although they are, I doubt it made much difference here, even if they were afro-Americans you'll note that caucasian folks in California, Texas, and Europe have been converting to Islam recently). Remember we are talking here about Islam, which does not follow the rules of western traditional thought (to be very, very polite about it)and widely perceived bahavior patterns, individual or social--which is why we in the western democracies are in so much trouble since we are generally unable to dispense with these in order to identify dangerous Islamic-based strategies being deployed against US.
You will remember that Athens' famed Parthenon was blown up by Turkish Muslims several hundred years ago. Do you seriously entertain the notion that fatherlessness incurred by ill-conceived welfare-state programs had anything to do with that?
What we are finding in the United States today could happen (and indeed IS happening) in any predominantly 'infidel' land where Muslims have been permitted to immigrate. In fact, I am hard-put to think of an 'infidel' nation where Muslim immigrants have NOT incurred widespread loss of life and property. Can you think of any?
But I do agree with you that where God retreats, al-lah invades--Serge Trifkovic pointed this out in his "The Sword of the Prophet" (a great read).
Posted by: pythagoras at June 28, 2006 2:59 PM
Islofob IS-1
Just because mohamad wrote the koran in his late 40s it in no way indicates/validates that it was revealed in a revelation. I tend to believe the more likely scenario was that he had a few decades to "borrow" themes and ideas from the two local monotheistic religions of the time (and place), reword them into his own versions, test them out on his followers, and finaly create a presentation he was comfortable with - the koran.
As for Mohamad,the pre-koranic "soldier"; well, we do know that he was not adverse to liberating (thieving) valuables from any group he could physically dominate. Sounds more like nomadic gang activity than soldiering.
Posted by: oregonjack at June 28, 2006 3:16 PM
Israel making another recipe for disaster, warn UK Muslims The Muslim Council of Britain (MC Wednesday condemned Israel's latest invasion as exposing the Zionist regime's claims to have 'withdrawn' from Gaza.
"The blowing up of bridges and Gaza's main electricity transformer by the Israeli army can only be described as illegal acts of collective punishment against the Palestinian people," the umbrella organization said.
MCB Secretary General Muhammad Abdul Bari said that the Zionist regime had 'repeatedly shown that it has absolutely no regard for international law'.
"This disproportionate use of military force in one of the most densely populated areas in the world is a recipe for another disaster in the making," Bari warned.
The MCB called on the British and US governments to take urgent steps to bring about a negotiated settlement to the current crisis involving Palestinian and Israeli prisoners.
"We urge that such efforts must include the release of the 400 women and children among the 9,800 Palestinians that have been detained by the Israeli Occupation Forces," it said.
http://ummahnewslinks.com/2006/06/28/israel-making-another-recipe-for-disaster-warn-uk-muslims.aspx
at June 28, 2006 3:33 PM
I am convinced that they make it up as they go along. However, lie after lie at some point becomes hard to keep track of. What did I say to this guy last time we talked? Oh never mind I will…you guessed it, make it up as I go along! That is why their arguments make less and less sense.
Posted by: tgusa at June 28, 2006 4:10 PM
storagemanager:
It is the usual,never ending, and expected victimology practiced by the Palestinians of which all that unfolds will be magnified at least 10 fold for dhimmi, and left wing liberal media consumption.
It is of course the Palestinians who have no regard whatsoever for International law. The never ending attacks by the militants that have free reign and support from the Palestinians as they openly parade up streets in Gaza wearing their masks and their Hamas green to the cheers of an almost daily celebration.
Continue to expect much more of the same as they pathetically seek out the support of EU and American dhimmis'.
Posted by: Mackie at June 28, 2006 4:13 PM
http://www.samachar.com/showurl.htm?rurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1686510.cms?headline=HSBC~man~defrauds~UK~clients
Posted by: binge_drinking_pig at June 28, 2006 5:29 PM
Let them try freestyle skydiving without a parachute.
Posted by: Bohemond_1069 at June 28, 2006 7:27 PM
S.J.S.
Sudden Jihad Syndrome.
Symptoms:
1) Increased interest in Islamic literature (Koran, Hadiths, semtex websites).
2) Lifelong inferiority complex (or simplex).
3) Resentment of anyone more successful than you.
4) Inability to articulate anything beyond miltant cliches. (Preferably homicidal).
5) Urge to explode.
It'll be a big as A.D.D./A.D.H.D. soon.
Posted by: profitsbeard
at June 28, 2006 7:39 PM
Sorry, Templar, but I'm not buying it either. In fact, you sound like those who insist that Muslim agression is caused by social injustice. Indeed, you are going against the grain of this extremely focused blog.
The thrust of Jihad Watch is that the jihad ideology is in several striking ways rooted in Islamic theology and the Koran, not in social or cultural causes. Still less does your list of notable and deplorable conditions in America account for the Miami conspirators doing "what they did," as you put it.
The devil made them do it--the devil in jihadist ideology that is decidedly endemic to Islam.
Posted by: Haid Dasalami at June 28, 2006 9:09 PM
Haid Dasalami,
I believe the point is that socio/economic factors do apply. They are the poor the downtrodden the not considered at least 50% better than all others on Earth. Why do the Infidels next door have a Big Screen TV and I don’t? How come that woman next door is flaunting herself standing out on the porch in her full length bathrobe?
Why am I not the Boss of this company instead of the number 1 loafer? You know the type, always trying to tell others what, when, where and how to do things. And if they don’t comply? Off with their heads!
at June 28, 2006 9:44 PM
I see your point, tgusa, and I don't argue that everything is grievance for the Islamists, who are "downtrodden" because they persist in primitive thought and behavior. But Templar's list, or any other whether contrived in earnest or not, does not explain why "these young men did what they did." The socio-economic factors to which you allude vary, but Muslim aggression is a constant. If fools were horses--that is, whatever scenario you want to invision--Muslims would kill infidels, regardless. They don't all envy us or have grievances, either. I am of the opinion many do it because they enjoy it. Barbarity is what they like.
Posted by: Haid Dasalami at June 28, 2006 10:41 PM
BTW, it occurs to me that Templar was just being ironic, anyway :-) I spouted off because I am tired of hearing why the jihadists have been forced "to do what they did." Smokescreen reasoning will bring us no closer to realizing Robert's hope expressed on Frontpage--that is, "a fighting chance to begin to make headway against this ideology."
Posted by: Haid Dasalami at June 28, 2006 10:50 PM
"Just because mohamad wrote the koran in his late 40s it in no way indicates/validates that it was revealed in a revelation. As for Mohamad,the pre-koranic "soldier"; well, we do know that he was not adverse to liberating (thieving) valuables from any group he could physically dominate."
Posted by: oregonjack
oregonjack;
I agree his age did not give proof he was given revelation. He also (if my information is correct)did not pen the koran, nor was it done till after his death. Also, much of the koran comes from fragments, from others that carried it in memory.
I have heard that some who carried whole sections in memory were killed, or otherwise died, and the sections had to be "recovered" from others, another possable point of the mixing of islam and the koran, and the bible?
I have seen and read about many go after conquest and power, but most start early in their lives, and in this case it is a intersting start.
Sorry, a bit off topic, but interesting to ponder this, to explore some possable beginings.
Posted by: Islofob IS-1 at June 29, 2006 12:22 AM
While Imams and Muslim leaders in canada continue to deny Islam promote hatred and was part of the Jihad plan by the Brampton-17 arrested almost 3 weeks ago , I have once again found a Canadian Islamic website that details Islamic Law's and makes it clear how Allah stands on dealing with the infidels.
Here's just one piece from the Islamic library.
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Kafir:
107. * An infidel i.e. a person who does not believe in Allah and His Oneness, is najis. Similarly, Ghulat who believe in any of the holy twelve Imams as God, or that they are incarnations of God, and Khawarij and Nawasib who express enmity towards th e holy Imams, are also najis. And similar is the case of those who deny Prophethood, or any of the necessary laws of Islam, like, namaz and fasting, which are believed by the Muslims as a part of Islam, and which they also know as such.
As regards the people of the Book (i.e. the Jews and the Christians) who do not accept the Prophethood of Prophet Muhammad bin Abdullah (Peace be upon him and his progeny), they are commonly considered najis, but it is not improbable that they are Pak. However, it is better to avoid them.
108. The entire body of a Kafir, including his hair and nails, and all liquid substances of his body, are najis.
109. * If the parents, paternal grandmother and paternal grandfather of a minor child are all kafir, that child is najis, except when he is intelligent enough, and professes Islam. When, even one person from his parents or grandparents is a Muslim, the child is Pak (The details will be explained in rule 217).
110. * A person about whom it is not known whether he is a Muslim or not, and if no signs exist to establish him as a Muslim, he will be considered Pak. But he will not have the privileges of a Muslim, like, he cannot marry a Muslim woman, nor can he be buried in a Muslim cemetery.
111. Any person who abuses any of the twelve holy Imams on account of enmity, is najis.
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Muslim Politicians in Canada continue to lie as part of presenting islam as a faith of peace, but on the same Islamic site where i got the about information there is Whalid Khan on a Mosque video made during a meeting about Islamophobia and vandalism to a Mosque just days earlier.
Liberal MP Khan who is from the area where 6 of the 17 Jihadists live , is caught on tape citing Allah and the Quran to justify "Revenge" attacks for harm against Muslims or their property.
The video also has a gutless Catholic MP Liberal appeasing the Muslims by blaming Israel for the Middle east hardships to Muslims and he then denounces Jesus as the Messiah for over 1 billion Christians Globaly.
Ironically the meeting was to re-affirm Islams Tolerance and pluralism teachings and to denounce Racism and bigotry.
I guess it's safer for a catholic to be in a Mosque and offend all the Christians outside of it, then to speak the truth and upset a small group of Muslims in the Mosque.
The Muslim leaders that claim they know nothing about hate speech in the Mosques are either stupid or outright liars.
at June 29, 2006 12:36 AM
BTW, here's the link to the Mosque video and a high-speed link is best.
Plus I'm not too sure how to download and save the clip to be posted on a forum .
The main clip is the Pickering Politicians , but the Jesus rules is short and sweet, the TV show clip has some very telling comments by Muslims near the end of the show, Sharia-Law is used as a answer to stop the sin in Canada and these guys say it with a straight face.
http://www.cig.ca/arpresentsearch.php
Posted by: ala-sux at June 29, 2006 12:46 AM
I must admit that I am pleased and happy to see many here who are aware of the violent teachings of Islam.
I know first hand how muslims think. They don't. They are brainwashed.
The Koran is a full proof of why those jihdists (criminals) are doing what they are doing.
I was critisized for calling Islam is our enemy. Islam is the enemy of humanity. We Must face it head on. Our media Must begin to do its duty and educate the public of the evilness in Islam.
The ACLU is onother evil who is helping the 7 terrorists of Miami.
at June 29, 2006 9:08 AM
Templar 13:
'liberal socialism' is repackaged Communist ideology and it is conducting a vicious and global propaganda war against Americans-- calling us fascists and/or racists, telling the world Americans REALLY started the Cold War, taking Islam's side in world terrorism, persuading the UN to pass legislations that would make US private ownership of firearms a violation of international law, subverting our allies in the west, politically pressuring us to take untold millions of undocumented third world immigrants, and a multitude of other sins few Americans would otherwise care about except that these tactics are being aimed directly at them to undermine them, their national sovereignty, and their way of life. And that is why we are at war with "liberal socialism" --it is at war with us.
I offer no apologies for this. I am at war with "Liberal Socialism" too!!!
ps-FDR's New Deal offered a much better vision than these 'liberal socialists' people ever could!
Posted by: pythagoras at June 29, 2006 2:27 PM
ala-sux:
They are definitly liars. Not stupid. As an imam said to the bishop of Ismir in a Christian meeting in the USA:
"Thanks to your democratic laws we will invade you. Thanks to our religious laws we will dominate you".
And they are doing just that with our blessings.
WHAT IS GOING ON?
When are the MAJORITY going to wake up?
I refuse to believe that the majority of Americans do not care and ill-informed.
So why being silent?
Our freedom and the grreatest country in the world is at stake here.
at June 30, 2006 9:51 AM
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