I don’t have a statement from the Muslim in Springfield who was plotting the terror attack that Muslims are so shocked about in this article. However, around the same time, another Muslim, Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, was plotting a jihad terror attack in Dallas, and he said this:
I truly say it that 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. I don’t know what is in me, but I love him as I love my father….
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. What you will see of me will please you and your commander….
“My brother in God, God and His angels are with us. 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. Brother, by God, we shall attack them in a manner that hurts, an attack that shakes the world. Oh Brother, let the backsliders know that the time for their destruction has come.”
Now, if “every Muslim — young, old, woman — knows this is not of Islam,” as is claimed below about the Springfield attack, then how did Smadi ever get the idea that he should mount a terror attack…to defend Islam? And why don’t these American Muslims who are so shocked by this terror plot bother — ever — to explain how it is that people like Smadi got the ideas about Islam that they got, and what they’re doing to make sure there aren’t more Smadis?
And why am I the only person on the planet who notices this cognitive dissonance, every time, and calls their bluff, every time, while the Michael Kruses and S. I. Rosenbaums and all the rest of them take these statements at face value, every time, despite their obvious flimsiness and manipulativeness?
“Terror Plots Shock US Muslims,” from IslamOnline, September 26 (thanks to Maxwell):
CAIRO — Shocked by a series of terror arrests, American Muslims are joining hands in condemning any attacks against their country.
“Everyone here unequivocally condemns this,” Driss El-Akrich, a doctoral student in public administration at the University of Illinois at Springfield, told the State Journal-Register Saturday, September 26.
“For somebody to claim they are doing this in the name of Allah, they are betraying the values of the faith they are claiming to serve.”
A 29-year-old Muslim revert was arrested Wednesday in Illinois on charges of plotting attack against a courthouse in the state.
Police said the young man left an explosives-laden van near the courthouse and used a mobile phone to try to detonate the vehicle.
“I had to listen to it (the news) again and again,” Javed Cheema, director of Horace Mann’s project management office, said.
“I couldn’t believe this was happening in my hometown.”
The arrest came four days after three Americans of Afghan origin were arrested on charges of preparing a 7/7-style attacks in New York.
On Thursday, police arrested a 19-year-old Jordanian on claims of trying to bomb Dallas’s 60-storey Fountain Place skyscraper.
Un-Islamic
Muslim leaders denounced the attack plots as un-Islamic. “Every Muslim — young, old, woman — knows this is not of Islam,” said Sheikh Ahmed Fauzi, imam of the Islamic Society of Greater Springfield’s mosque on Stanton Ave.
Fauzi said he was saddened by the news of the plotted attacks in the name of Islam.
“If you read the Qur’an, you do not commit crime,” Fauzi said during the Friday sermon. “You do not spread crimes throughout the earth.”
Muslim leaders are worried that such individual acts would have a negative impact on the Muslim community as a whole.
“I didn’t know to be more angry, scared or frustrated — that this was being done in the name of Islam,” said Cheema, the director of the Horace Mann’s project management office.
“It puts all of us in a bad situation. The community has been very, very welcoming to us.”
American Muslims, estimated at between six to seven million, have been in the eye of storm since the 9/11 attacks.
They have become sensitized to an erosion of their civil rights, with a prevailing belief that America was targeting their faith.
A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that American Muslims are still discriminated against other than any religious groups in the US, eight years after the 9/11 attacks.
In fact, no.