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Robert Spencer at PJ Media: 5 New Signs of the West’s Myopia About the Jihad Threat

Jun 28, 2014 7:16 pm By Robert Spencer

ISISIn PJ Media today I explore the latest in willful ignorance and myopia:

In Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, Kenya, Somalia and elsewhere, Islamic jihadists are more aggressive and audacious than ever – but the denial about who they are and what they hope to accomplish is thicker than ever.

Counter-jihadists are in the position reminiscent of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People. This play tells the story of Dr. Thomas Stockmann, who lives in a small town in Norway that is visited by people from far and wide because of its baths, which are said to have healing properties. Because of the baths, which Stockmann has championed, the town is growing and prospering. But then Stockmann discovers, to his surprise, that the baths are, in fact, not only not medicinal, but contaminated, and are making those who bathe in them ill.

The town, however, will not hear of it, and instead of hailing Stockmann as a hero, they brand him an enemy of the people, and continue on the path to disaster.

So it is today. Those who speak the truth about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat are shunned by the mainstream, derided as fringe characters, and vilified as bigots and racists. And those who retail pleasing falsehoods about the jihad threat, or ignore its existence altogether, are in positions of power and influence.

Here are five new signs of the prevalence of myopia regarding jihad, and its deleterious consequences.

5. Prof: U of Calgary ignored warnings about “radicalization” of Muslim students

With a Muslim from Calgary, Farah Mohamed Shirdon, waging jihad in Iraq with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a former University of Calgary professor of religious studies, Aaron Hughes, says that for years he was concerned about Muslims on campus becoming jihadis, but that university officials were uninterested.

“I was very much bothered by the conservative nature of the Muslim student body,” Hughes recounts. “I was definitely aware of the potential for radicalization on campus. That is another venue in which potential radicalization could occur, so not just at mosques, but also on campus.” However, “I had been mentioning the conservative nature of these students and the university; they just weren’t interested in it.”

Hughes was also annoyed with these “conservative” students because they professed to know what Islam was all about: “They made teaching Islam from an objective perspective very difficult because they knew what the ‘real’ Islam was. Of course they didn’t.” Or maybe they did, but this professor, certain that Islam was a Religion of Peace, was sure that they were actually misundertanders of Islam, no matter how pious they were and how much Qur’an they knew.

In any case, university officials disregarded Hughes’s warnings about these students. They knew Islam was a Religion of Peace as well. The prospect that there could be jihadis on campus was no doubt inconceivable to them.

4. Lawyer for Muslim who tried to join jihad says he engaged only in “nonviolent terrorism”

Mohamed Hassan Hersi, a Muslim in Toronto, has been convicted of trying to join the jihad terror group al Shabaab. Canadian prosecutors want him to serve ten years in prison, but his defense attorney has argued that he should serve only four years, since he was engaged only in “non-violent terrorism.”

In response to this, Crown attorney Jim Clark displayed a bit of the common sense that is usually so lacking in such matters. “I don’t know what non-violent terrorism is,” he said. “All terrorism is inherently violent.”

Indeed. The phrase “nonviolent terrorism” is as meaningless as another recent coinage, “moderate Islamist.” These phrases are invented as Western officials become contortionists, twisting themselves into pretzels trying to avoid facing the reality of jihad.

3. CIA officer: We had no idea ISIL would seize Iraqi cities

A former CIA officer, John Maguire, has said that the CIA did not foresee the advance of ISIL. “This is a glaring example,” he said, “of the erosion of our street craft and our tradecraft and our capability to operate in a hard place. The U.S. taxpayer is not getting their money’s worth.”

John Maguire doesn’t say it, but another reason why the CIA was completely wrongfooted by ISIL’s advance was because the Obama administration has completely deemphasized the jihad threat, and pretended that al Qaeda was the only jihad group. An obscure offshoot of al Qaeda in a country Obama was anxious to forget was not likely to be the object of serious analysis.

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  1. zulu says

    Jun 28, 2014 at 7:25 pm

    ‘Infidels must wear red collars and shave heads’: ‘Nazi’ vision of Muslim Britain from Imam who ran ‘Isis’ barbecue in Cardiff park

    Abu Waleed, 35, was seen at event in Cardiff bedecked with Isis flags

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2673493/Infidels-wear-red-collars-shave-heads-Nazi-vision-Muslim-Britain-Imam-ran-Isis-barbecue-Welsh-park.html#ixzz35ymPu5cn
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    • John C. Barile says

      Jun 28, 2014 at 8:24 pm

      The folks at the Daily Mail have never heard of the Pact of Umar, obviously.

      • Michael Copeland says

        Jun 29, 2014 at 4:20 am

        Pact of Umar, 7th Century?
        The Status of Non-Muslims Under Muslim Rule
        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/pact-umar.asp

    • Shane says

      Jun 29, 2014 at 10:08 am

      Obama and most liberals are generally in denial about the connection between Islam and jihad. They will tell you that jihad has nothing to do with Islam, though Muhammad was a jihadist, and proud of it. Many of the libs are lying, but some, like Obama, know that jihad against the infidels is a major part of Islam.

  2. mortimer says

    Jun 28, 2014 at 11:40 pm

    America’s LEFTARDS will still be in denial and the blood-soaked, triumphant jihadis are marching down Pennsylvania Avenue with the heads of senators in their hands held high!

  3. Henry says

    Jun 29, 2014 at 3:25 am

    My personal experience in trying to speak of the Jihad threat to those in my circle, or acquaintance is similar. It’s been very frustrating to say the least, sadly, passivity, denial, willful ignorance and political correctness are clung on to by far to many.

  4. BC says

    Jun 29, 2014 at 5:50 am

    When I click read the rest here I get to some site full of advertising.
    What is going on? Why not just show the whole article oin this page.
    Not good RS

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 29, 2014 at 12:13 pm

      RS
      Great follow up info

      Also I just loved the advertising as well.
      Very good job RS

      Yes indeed the JW website is not all about ME, ME, ME

  5. Joeb says

    Jun 29, 2014 at 7:31 am

    The dumbest thing about the CIA not realising what ISIS would do in advance is that all they had to do was look at their name to understand their strategic intent from the outset.

    Apart from Iraq – obviously – the Arabic term ‘al Sham’ covers what is now Syria, Jordan, Israel, and Lebanon. This is fundamental stuff at the 1 + 1 = 2 level.

    It just beggars belief…

  6. Juan Eduardos says

    Jun 29, 2014 at 12:53 pm

    I undestand that politicians import massive numbers of immigrants at incredible financial costs to secure votes for their political parties. What I don’t understand is why they pander to radical Islam. Don’t these politicians realize that radical Islam and Sharia Law is much more dangerous than Adolf Hitler ever was? Do these politicians not care about their childrens futures? The actions of these corrupt politicians will eventually result in civil wars in all industrialized countries.
    See Youtube video: WORLD POPULATIONS AND MUSLIM DEMOGRAPHICS.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 29, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    An important question: is the Quran the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Quran the truth or a fiction and a hoax? The jihadists use many verses from the Quran,Sura 9:111,112. 47:4.m as the main source of justification for their violence, mayhem and murders. There, the question is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Quran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Quran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.” In conclusion, the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.

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