The words “Islamic Society of Boston” do not appear in this Boston Globe article, which is full of head-scratching and bewilderment over why Boston has produced so many jihad terrorists. Yet the Tsarnaev brothers, Usaama Rahim (the “Roslindale man” in the second paragraph), and Tarek Mehanna, as well as Aafia Siddiqui, who is doing 86 years for jihad activities, and Ahmad Abousamra, the Islamic State’s propagandist (apparently now slain), all went there. The ISB was founded by Abdurrahman Alamoudi, who is doing 23 years for financing al-Qaeda. Yet none of these learned analysts quoted in this story thinks to call for an investigation of the Islamic Society of Boston, and as far as is publicly known, no such investigation is being conducted or is even being contemplated.
It is more important today to preserve politically correct fictions than to safeguard the public.
Oh, and by the way, Bishop McManus, how is that “dialogue” working out?
“Are Boston terrorism cases a trend?,” by Shelley Murphy and Peter Schworm, Boston Globe, June 7, 2015:
The Tsarnaev brothers exploded bombs at the Boston Marathon. Tarek Mehanna translated documents for Al Qaeda from his Sudbury home. Ashland’s Rezwan Ferdaus planned to crash model airplanes laden with explosives into the Pentagon and US Capitol.
All were homegrown terrorist plots in and around Boston in recent years. And then, last week, a Roslindale man who was being tracked by an antiterrorism task force and who allegedly had vowed to kill police officers was shot to death by investigators as he allegedly brandished a knife.
These episodes raise a question: Is Boston more vulnerable to violent extremism than other parts of the country? Antiterrorism specialists interviewed by the Globe said there is no easy answer.
Some said the region is no more likely to be home to extremists than anywhere else in the United States, while others suggested that Boston’s emergence as an international hub may leave it exposed to strains of radicalized behavior.
“Clearly, there have been a number of incidents here, and some of that is because Boston is really an international city,” said former Boston Police Department commissioner Ed Davis, who is an international security consultant and a consultant to the Globe.
Rahim’s alleged plot was the latest in a series of terrorism cases with connections to the state stretching back to Sept. 11, 2001.
Still, he said, “I don’t want to downplay the fact there have been repeated incidents. I think we have to look closely at it at this point.”
J.M. Berger, coauthor of “ISIS: The State of Terror” and author of “Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam,” said there have been more incidents involving violent extremism in Boston than many other places, but not as many as in some cities, including New York.
The Boston-area cases cannot be traced to one network, and individuals and groups do not appear to be connected, Berger said.
Yet, he said, there was a “robust radical presence” in the Boston area in the 1990s, when members of the Al Kifah Refugee Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. — which was linked to the 1993 truck-bombing attack at the World Trade Center — moved to Massachusetts and operated an organization that sent fighters and supplies to Bosnia. Most of that group’s members were sent to prison or deported.
“There is some degree of social network here that seems to be involved in radical thought, but very few radicals actually become violent,” Berger said.
Even if there are remnants of that radical social network in the Boston area, Berger said, all of the recent local cases are not necessarily connected to it.
“Unfortunately, ISIS has been more effective in inspiring people to carry out individual attacks,” Berger said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group active in Iraq and Syria.
One of the few indicators of whether someone will become a violent extremist is with whom they associate, whether over the Internet or in person, Berger said. “If you’re friends with a violent extremist, you are likely to be one,” he said.
James Forest, director of security studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Center for Terrorism and Security Studies, said many US cities have felt the threat of terrorism since Sept. 11, 2001. Boston, he said, is not an outlier.
“We’ve seen similar kinds of plots in many cities,” he said. “These guys could just have easily been in Chicago, Denver, or Houston.”…
duh_swami says
The Boston-area cases cannot be traced to one network, and individuals and groups do not appear to be connected, Berger said.
Well, they are connected…By Allah, the Quran, by Mahound, by ummah, by sharia and by jihad. Of course we know that none of that has anything to do with the ‘true Islam’, which is all rainbows and butterflies, and a unicorn or two…
Jaladhi says
How many times it hs to be told. Repeat after me : “Its the religion, stupid!!”
Today its the Boston mosque, tomorrow it will be some other mosque!!
Sabri S. says
No stupid…it is not the religion…or the mosque…or the skullcap…
Or the ethnicity….it is kaffir ignorance and disobedience to ALMIGHTY
ALLAH!!!! Oppression and military industrial complex creates jihadists,
Not Islam……last time I prated at a mosque, I didn’t see weapons and
Tanks being handed out…unlike the m middle east your Puppet government
Tries to destabilize by the day!! America will fail…
Champ says
You are a lost cause serving an evil cause: islam.
Angemon says
The deficient muslim posted:
“Oppression and military industrial complex creates jihadists,
Not Islam……last time I prated at a mosque, I didn’t see weapons and
Tanks being handed out”
So where did the islamic state got their weapons and tanks?
Although, I have to admit your typo makes sense – “prated” seems to be a good description of what goes on in a mosque. Like, for example, this gibberish:
Inna almunafiqeena yukhadiAAoona Allaha wahuwa khadiAAuhum waitha qamoo ila alssalati qamoo kusala yuraoona alnnasa wala yathkuroona Allaha illa qaleelan
(Pssst. That’s the quran, 4:142. You should read it, hypocrite)
jewdog says
Boston is home to many colleges that are staffed by leftist professors, and the atmosphere of blind multiculturalism pervades its elites and its media, especially the Globe. The jihadists, ever the cynical opportunists, can spot a sucker when they see one, and they see one in that blue state city.
Shane says
The left encourages young people to hate America and to hate the police, which causes Blacks, especially Black Muslims to engage in jihad against the USA. The urban Black war on the police can be looked on as a kind of jihad against their hated enemies.
Oliver says
isn’t the Boston Globe owned by the New York Times?
Birds –etc.
Angemon says
Let’s see, what do all these “violent extremists” have in common? Oh, yeah, poverty, disenfranchisement, and climate change!!!! Surely not religion, right???
Keith says
If it is religion it must be Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Sikhism or any other religion except Islam of course.
john in cheshire says
Or atheism; I can’t think an example where atheists have harmed anyone. sarc off.
RonaldB says
““There is some degree of social network here that seems to be involved in radical thought, but very few radicals actually become violent,” Berger said.”
Notice how low the bar has gone.
All we’re interested in is whether the group or person is violent, that is, they’re blowing someone up at this moment. It doesn’t matter if they’re actively working to subvert the educational process, the political process, the police delivery of services, the normal relationships between people, the traditional protection of women and individual rights and liberties in western culture….
If they can only manage to hold themselves back from blowing people up, they’re a-ok.
Using the absence of violence is the lowest common denominator possible, and keeps the media entertainers and the politicians from having to discuss ideas or principles, which is more challenging and time-consuming. Do we apply adherence to the idea of representative government and individual liberties as a criterion for admitting immigrants?
mortimer says
RB wrote: “Do we apply adherence to the idea of representative government and individual liberties as a criterion for admitting immigrants?”
Agree. But HOW do we apply adherence to the idea of representative government and individual liberties as a criterion for admitting immigrants?
How can you catch someone who HATES the idea of representative government and individual liberties from entering.
How do you keep THEOCRATIC SUPREMACISTS from entering. I spoke with a Somalian who loved being here, said he would fight for his new country and then admitted he wanted to impose ALLAH’S BOOK on his new country. He did not understand his contradiction.
thelmalou says
He wants to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. We have to stop immigration of people who wish to destroy this country. No more Muslims until these issues get straightened out. If some love flooding this country with immigrants (I don’t) at least allow in people who clearly hold democratic values. I don’t think Muslims really understand equality and freedom of speech on any deep level whatsoever. The have been brainwashed their entire lives, and that does not reverse itself easily.
Keith says
That a good idea in a few years time there will be a lot of refugees from a war torn Europe who will be looking for a safe place to live. There again if you have President like Obama he will only want to take muslims which will bar most refugees as they will be Christian.
Oliver says
Mortimer, RE: Somalian.
I recently ( this past weekend) spoke to an acquaintance. He ahs an acquaintance, AN IRANIAN- WHO IS NOT MUSLIM. Lives in Florida.
Faced a great deal of discrimination, religious practices (unable to do his, as they aren’t Islamic) ; had difficulty making a living; food was scarce .etc.
BUT HE LOVES IRAN, HATES THE US, AND WANTS TO GO BACK.
I told my acquaintance, I would contribute $20 for a one way ticket. And a few dollars more if he would take all of his relatives with him.
Makes no sense-here he can work; practice his religion, and -for want of a better term, ignored by the authorities. And he hates it.
Arthur says
It would seem many people do not make choices in accordance with their best interests…
mortimer says
Stop scratching your heads, Boston Globe. Here is the answer: Islamic ‘radicals’ are ‘radicalized’ by ISLAMIC STUDY GROUPS and ISLAMIC RADICAL CHIC.
Muslim youth are experiencing a FLOOD of ISLAMIC RADICAL CHIC and Muslim young people communicate with one another to create an attitude of opposition and hatred towards Westerners. They call Westerners dehumanizing names behind their backs such as ‘kufaar’ and ‘Crusaders’.
ISLAMIC RADICAL CHIC should not be overlooked as a cause of radicalization along with ISLAMIC STUDY GROUPS.
AnneCrockett says
You may have new readers, especially those who became curious about the roots of Islamic terror after the Boston Marathon bombing, the Charlie Hebdo Massacre, or the failed Garland, TX attack.
For those who do no know, this is Robert McManus
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/05/bishop-mcmanus-of-worcester-arrested-for-drunken-driving-admits-terrible-error-in-judgment
Jack Diamond says
The Islamic Society of Boston is run by the Muslim American Society, a chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood. Their national headquarters (appropriately) is Falls Church, VA, that of the Dar Al-Hijrah
9/11 mosque. Next door to MAS was Abdurahman Alamoudi’s American Muslim Foundation (the jailbird
al Qaeda financier). Not that this has anything to do with Jihad, stealth or otherwise…
“Founded in 1993, MAS has surpassed the Muslim Students Association and the Islamic Society of North America to become the strongest arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States. MAS compliments the more-visible Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in their quest to undermine government efforts against terrorism, and pursue the aims of the extremist groups that created them.
“As revealed in a groundbreaking 2004 article in the Chicago Tribune, in the early 1990’s, Muslim Brotherhood leaders sought to establish a more prominent and visible organ in the United States. Out of this desire came MAS. The founders and leaders of MAS were instructed to avoid openly admitting to any affiliation with the Brotherhood, but a founding board member of MAS, Ahmad Elkadi, has admitted that he was the head of the Brotherhood in the United States from 1984 to 1994 and the head of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Akef, claims to have played a role in the founding of MAS
http://www.investigativeproject.org/472/introducing-the-muslim-american-society
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The ISB [Islamic Society of Boston] was founded by Abdurrahman Alamoudi, who is doing 23 years for financing al-Qaeda.
Well, the Infidel taxpayers in Boston financed the ISD, should that be thrown in jail too?
Yet none of these learned analysts quoted in this story thinks to call for an investigation of the Islamic Society of Boston…
This confounds me. They should be able to drive rat across to the Charles River to Harvard and ask for help. The geniuses there are smart enough to make the link. In fact, they all read the Boston Globe, I’m surprised none of the professors has called up the paper to notify them that the ISB is in town.
Larry A. Singleton says
I’ve been blocked by Facebook. For something taken totally out of context. They basically accused me of “racist hate speech”. The reality is that nothing could be further from the truth as we see with those same labels being thrown at Spencer and Geller. Facebook is a peek at what Big Brother and Thought Control will look like. The problem is Jihad Watch could easily have been using their comment functions like hundreds of other websites. Which would mean that you couldn’t comment or share that page with fellow Jihad Watch users. This is pure and unadulterated censorship.
Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future by David Horowitz and Rober Spencer
Muslim Brotherhood in America by Rober Spencer
Subversive Mosques: Why Barack Obama Won’t Declare War on Radical Islam by Pamella Geller and Robert Spencer
Obama’s Immigration Fiasco and National Security by FrontPage Magazine.
Also I suggest you look up the name Frank Gaffney and his ten part course on the Muslim Brotherhood.
Angemon says
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/eric-allen-bell/the-true-face-of-facebook/
Sam says
Shouldn’t America ask for once “maybe there is something really wrong with Islam”. What an intellectually (and otherwise) lazy people we have become. We are losing our freedoms inch by inch everyday.
Richie says
The Boston Globe is a far left newspaper that has always turned a blind eye to the truth about Islam
Know Thy Enemy says
Watch this short video to learn how the authorities investigate terrorists’ motives. Will make everything clear…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgTmGIXT8ow
🙂
Richie says
Perhaps the reason so many Islamic terrorists erupt like pus filled boils in Boston is because they know the local leftist media will cover them and make excuses for their activities
David, Thailand says
“All were homegrown terrorist plots in and around Boston in recent years.”
Absolutely not! ‘Homegrown’ is a Leftist term that implies we, our society, are somehow responsible for ‘radicalising’ otherwise peaceloving Muslims.
Fact is, for what facts are worth nowadays, Jihadists throughout the world, even those born and bred in Europe and the US, have been and are ‘radicalised’ by the Koran, the Hadith, and other Satanic principles.
A dysfunctional desert ideology has been at war with the Judeo-Christian world for 1,400 years, yet Western leaders remain clueless and impotent through political correctness and other failings of a polite liberal democracy.
Midway says
Degenerate PC progressives create a problem then can’t figure out how it gets out of hand
mezcukor says
Because of the big mosque where they get indoctrinated. IDIOTS
quotha raven says
“I don’t want to downplay the fact there have been repeated incidents. I think we have to look closely at it at this point.” Etc, etc.
Is it just me? Or do these alleged anti-terrorist experts sound like a bunch of blithering, blabbering, self-important morons? They all seem to be ignoring the elephant in the living room. Cheers – Quotha