“The feds assumed that all those terrorists misunderstood the peaceful teachings they figured that they heard at the Islamic Society of Boston and wouldn’t have dreamed of considering whether or not they learned their Islam from the ISB.” And that still hasn’t changed. It probably never will, even when the bombings and beheadings become much more numerous than they are now.
“ISIS tie to Boston mosque ‘massive FBI failure,'” by Art Moore, WND, September 8, 2014:
The revelation that the top propagandist for the jihadist group ISIS was a member of the mosque attended by the brothers who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings is a telling indictment of the U.S. government’s approach to terrorism, according to analysts of Islamic jihad and counter-terrorism.
“This is just another indication of the massive failure of the FBI’s politically correct refusal to confront the ideological underpinnings of Islamic jihad terror,” Jihad Watch Director Robert Spencer told WND.
In keeping with that approach, Spencer said, the government has shown a “reluctance to monitor or investigate mosques, or do much of anything with them beyond conducting ‘outreach’ programs,” to improve its relationship with the Muslim community.
Spencer was responding to a New York Post report that Ahmad Abousamra – who is now the top propagandist for ISIS, also known as the Islamic State – was a regular worshipper at the Cambridge mosque. The Post reported Abousamra’s father even sat on the board of directors of the Muslim organization that runs the mosque.
Abousamra, the FBI suspects, now operates the jihadist group’s sophisticated English-language propaganda campaign, which features videos of beheadings and other atrocities. The campaign has helped attract at least 300 American jihadists and thousands from other Western nations. ISIS has beheaded American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and has threatened to kill a British hostage, David Haines.
Spencer noted it was only for “outreach” programs that the FBI ever visited the Islamic Society of Boston before the Boston Marathon attack. That was despite the warnings from the Russian government about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston bomber killed in a shootout with police, and the presence of other jihadists. His younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, awaits trial for the April 15, 2013, attack, which killed three people and injured an estimated 264.
“The feds assumed that all those terrorists misunderstood the peaceful teachings they figured that they heard at the Islamic Society of Boston and wouldn’t have dreamed of considering whether or not they learned their Islam from the ISB,” Spencer said.
“How many people have to die before this nonsensical approach is discarded?” he asked….
terry says
We pride ourselves here in the west in our freedom of speech, diversity and our freedom of faith or lack of. Hence, up to the very recent past, and may be still going on right now, leaders and people from different Christian schools of faith or churches were busy verbally attacking and discrediting each other! In the meantime atheists were busy as always attacking the bible and the concept of God. To make matters worse, the growing of a general atmosphere of absolute secularism and agnosticism bordering on atheism which led in many instances to people being offended by almost-amount-to-nothing events or incidents, e.g. when some people were offended when few months ago the police chief of Winnipeg, a devout Christian, emphasized the importance of prayer or the teacher in New York who was forbidden from showing symbols of her Christian faith in her office.
In the meantime our mouths are being shut up from stating any fact or the obvious, let alone criticize, about anything related to Islam for of being an “Islamophobs”, “racists” or “bigots”.
The result is while many of us are still debating whether Jesus Christ was a homosexual or not, which unfortunately came to my attention few months ago, many Muslims here in Canada are proselytizing, an obligation and one of the five pillars in Islam, among Canadians, of whom many converted after being deceived about the real nature of that religion! In addition a group of Muslims are working on building mosques in every corner of Canada, like a recent one in the extreme north of Canada, as reported few months back by the CBC radio.
If the current state of affairs continue as it is in the west and here in Canada, and we fail to take any action to correct things, we have to write letters to our children and grand children, who ultimately be the ones livinig under Sharia here in the west inevitably, if the current state of wilful ignorance and wishful thinking continue, as to why we didn’t take any action or worse stayed wilfully ignorant of the threat, as the mainstream media and our leaders are doing right now and above all to ask them for forgiveness!
tommy fuller says
We in the west have no real understanding of Islam do we as a Whole? I am an American and we now like to be welcoming to different cultures. Unfortunately Islam is a culture of Domination once the Numbers get high enough in a territory. Read history. Islam is now viewing the American Continent as the New Frontier and liberals in our society have their collective heads so far up their Asses they cant see whats slowly going on!
alex ferdman says
Its all quite simple to fix. Exactly as we separated government and religions we have to understand and enforce that religions belong to private life not public.
mortimer says
Message to Charlie Rose: ‘Keep looking for moderate Islam…and I hope they don’t dupe you…again.’
mortimer says
Obama’s strategy of pandering to Muslims is a massive failure that weakens the law agencies’ investigations and puts the American public and American allies in danger from undetected jihadist attacks.
Muslims will always protect the jihadists, if not out of loyalty, then out of the fear of them!
Budvarakbar says
He isn’t “pandering” to them — he IS one of them – and will – if not stopped soon – eventually be recognized as the 12th Imam
Sean says
You need to brush up on your Shiite Islam….the 12th Imam would have to be direct bloodline descendent ….and Obama, no matter how vile he is….is not the Mahdi. But Bashar al-Assad is a direct bloodline descendent of the 11th Imam….JFYI.
Angemon says
Not that the Obama administration will ever admit it, unless they can blame the Bush administration for it…
GP says
The recognized leader of the IS or ISIS or ISIL has a PhD in IS LAMic studies, but that is not really IS LAM. Right?
But hey, the IS has recruiting centers throughout America and the West and these are called mosques. Every one of these mosques is a potential jihadist mill and every imams needs to watched very very closely. “Radical Muslims” will try to slit your throat and “Moderate Muslims” will simply smile and nod. IS LAM is a cult of murderous jihadists, rapists, and bloodthirsty devils. These butchers will find there is a special place in Hell for the most vile evil savages. That will be their eternal reward.
donovan nuera says
According to Yale students, the Caliph al-Baghdadi would be allowed to speak to their students about Islam as he is “credentialed”.
GP says
Specifically, how is a mosque a threat to the community within which it is built?
Every single mosque in the world, by definition, is modeled on the mosque of Muhammad in Medina in accordance with the Sunnah. The Sunnah interprets the Qur’an by reporting exhaustively on everything that Muhammad said, did, or consented to. Therefore, his Medina mosque, the first mosque, was a place where he gave judgments, where he decided who would be executed, where he instituted policy—domestic and military— where Jihad war strategies were designed. Consequently, it was a storage place for arms, a military training base, and was where troops were blessed and dispatched. Literally they were sent to conquer – first the whole of Arabia, and then the rest of the known world. Therefore if the present-day mosque is modeled as per the Sunnah of Muhammad then there should be very serious concern. As is well-known, Muslims are required to follow the example (Sunnah) of Muhammad—and according to Sura 33:36 it is not an option or a matter of opinion: “It is not for a believer, man or woman, when Allâh and His Messenger have decreed a matter that they should have any option in their decision. And whoever disobeys Allâh and His Messenger, he has indeed strayed in a plain error.” This explains and establishes beyond doubt why arms have been found in mosques in various countries, and in different capital cities.
-Sam Solomon, former professor of Sharia Law
Dave says
I would be very interested in knowing if the FBI has become more politically-correct under Obama or whether this dangerous incomprehension of the pervasive threat that Islamic ideology presents was as bad under his predecessors in the White House. Has there been pressure put on the FBI by the White House to stick its head in the sand, or do FBI upper division chiefs do this instinctively?
Angemon says
Dave posted:
“I would be very interested in knowing if the FBI has become more politically-correct under Obama or whether this dangerous incomprehension of the pervasive threat that Islamic ideology presents was as bad under his predecessors in the White House.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/robert-spencer/obama-adminstration-bans-the-truth-about-islam-and-jihad/
“Dwight C. Holton, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, emphasized that training materials for the FBI would be purged of everything politically incorrect: “I want to be perfectly clear about this: training materials that portray Islam as a religion of violence or with a tendency towards violence are wrong, they are offensive, and they are contrary to everything that this president, this attorney general and Department of Justice stands for. They will not be tolerated.”“
Jerry says
Forgive me for quoting out of context but the only sane conclusion is:
“… everything that this president, this attorney general and Department of Justice stands for… ” “… will not be tolerated”.
Current POTUS = Piece of Trash – Useless Sh..”
Leith Wood says
The answer is a resounding YES! Under Obama, the training manuals for the FBI are forbidden to mention Jihad, Sharia Law,(the basis for Islam) or radical, Islamic terrorism,(Boston bombing or Fort Hood murders. Many members of the military, who will not go along with Obama’s wishes are being kicked out. Our press in America is not doing their job and reporting the truth. We the people need to tell the truth and vote for patriots with courage. Thanks for writing.
pongidae rex says
The politically correct magical thinking that defines Western policy towards the Muslim world has entered a very dangerous phase. It has now become abject denial of reality and inability to reason from facts. Nothing good is going to come from this.
George says
If the NAS had spent less time spying on American emails and cell phones they may have stopped the Boston bombing. Our current incompetent government has been letting Somolians and other questionable arab exhiles and aliens into America that are becoming radicalized right under our noses. Dearborn , Nashville, Minneapolis are hotbeds of islamic radicalization.
Michael Copeland says
Boston police are not exactly blameless.
They put out a statement at the time that the victims had been “stabbed in the neck”, and they thought it was some sort of drug-related killing. This is misleading.
Their mutilated bodies had been left covered with thousands of dollars’ worth of marijuana (seven pounds of marijuana; in what investigators described as a symbolic gesture) and thousands of dollars of cash, in three different rooms.
All had their throats slit from ear to ear, with such great force that they were nearly decapitated. A police spokesman has since said there was blood everywhere and it looked like something from Al Qaeda. They did not make the connection.
See “A triple unsolved murder. Unconnected dots”.
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/5778-a-triple-unsolved-murder-unconnected-dots