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Robert Spencer, FPM: The Boston Jihadis and the Left’s War on the Police

Jun 4, 2015 4:28 pm By Robert Spencer

Usaama RahimIn FrontPage today I discuss, in the jihad plot against Pamela Geller and the shooting of jihadist Usaama Rahim, the Cartoon Jihad and the vilification of the police converge.

In Usaama Rahim, the Left’s war on the police and the Islamic State’s war on cartoonists of Muhammad have come together. No surprise: they were always in service of the same goals.

Usaama Rahim died Tuesday morning in Boston after being shot dead by agents of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. The victim’s brother, the prominent moderate imam Ibrahim Rahim, presented the tragic story stoically, with trust in Allah and a request for prayers:

Your prayers are requested:

This morning while at the bus stop in Boston, my youngest brother Usaama Rahim was waiting for the bus to go to his job. He was confronted by three Boston Police officers and subsequently shot in the back three times. He was on was on his cell phone with my dear father during the confrontation needing a witness. His last words to my father who heard the shots were:

I can’t breathe!

While at the hospital, Usaama Rahim died!

From Allah we come, and to Allah we return.

Imam Ibrahim Rahim

“I can’t breathe!” Ring a bell? It certainly did to Leftist and Islamic supremacist activists who saw Usaama Rahim as their next Eric Garner or Michael Brown, another sainted victim they could use to defame police and limit their powers. Islamic supremacist Linda Sarsour complained that by charging that Rahim had been involved in jihad terror plotting, activities “have added a national security component to divide and conquer the movement. At the end of the day, a Black man was shot on a bus stop on his way to work and we should treat this like any other case of police violence. All we want is answers to our questions.”

Zahra Billoo of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said flatly that the shooting of Rahim “was murder – murder of a black Muslim man.” Her Hamas-linked CAIR colleague Dawud Walid: “I’m not quick to believe the FBI’s narrative about who was supposedly trying to join [ISIS]. I have no reason to believe them in this case. However even if that was true, that doesn’t justify excessive force – the family states that he was shot in the back. Moreover, he was on the phone with his dad as law enforcement approached him then fatally shot him.”

There was just one problem with the tearjerker scenario of an innocent Muslim, a black man, talking on the phone with his beloved father when he was shot in the back by cowardly, racist police, setting him up to echo the now-iconic words of Eric Garner as he struggled for his last breath: it wasn’t true.

After viewing surveillance video of the incident, Darnell Williams, president and chief executive of urban league of Eastern Massachusetts, contradicted Ibrahim Rahim’s account: “What the video does reveal to us very clearly is that the individual was not on the cellphone, the individual was not shot in the back and that the information reported by others that that was the case was inaccurate.” Imam Abdullah Faaruuq was likewise skeptical of Ibrahim Rahim’s story, albeit less definite: “I don’t think that he was shot in the back. … However we couldn’t see clearly at all. It was very far away. We can’t be clear as to what transpired. We can’t say what happened. We weren’t there. We do see a very vague video that is not clear as to what transpired. It wasn’t at a bus stop. He wasn’t shot in the back and there is not detail enough on the video to tell us exactly what happened.”

Further complicating the scenario of Usaama Rahim as victim of racist police brutality have been the revelations of his conversations with his fellow jihadi, Dawud Sharif Wright, aka Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, formerly known as David Wright. Rahim told Abdul Khaliq: “I just got myself a nice little tool. You know it’s good for carving wood and like, you know, carving sculptures…and you know…” It was a 15-inch-long Ontario Spec Plus Marine Raider Bowie fighting knife with a ​9.75 inch blade.

Rahim told Abdul Khaliq about his plan to behead someone outside of Massachusetts — apparently Pamela Geller: CNN called her for comment on the fact that she was the target. So apparently Rahim and Abdul Khaliq were not just inspired in a general way by the Islamic State, but specifically by their call to murder those who dare defy Sharia blasphemy laws and draw Muhammad.

On Tuesday, however, Rahim changed his mind, and decided to strike police in Massachusetts instead: “Yeah I’m going to be on vacation right here in Massachusetts… I’m just going to go ah go after them, those boys in blue, Cause, ah, its the easiest target and, ah, the most common is the easiest for me.”

He did go after them, thereby earning for himself martyr status from the likes of Linda Sarsour and Zahra Billoo. And truly, Usaama Rahim does indeed deserve to be remembered, but not as a victim of racist, trigger-happy, Islamophobic police. Rather, he should be remembered as the point of convergence between the Left’s war on the police and the Islamic supremacist jihad on the freedom of speech.

The ultimate goal of the Left’s war on the police is blood in the streets, and the collapse and downfall of American society. Islamic supremacists hope to capitalize upon that chaos by overseeing the imposition of Islamic law – while any who resist are kept silent by “hate speech” codes that forestall any criticism of the new societal system. Thus the war on the police and the war on free speech converge: they’re both about breaking down the old authorities and the old system, and installing a radically new order.

Fanciful? Far-fetched? Sure. But violence committed to that end, and the burning of entire cities, isn’t far-fetched at all: it’s present-day reality. We are in days of testing and trial. Will we defend free society, or slip into the darkness of chaos and violence that the Ibrahim Rahims and Linda Sarsours are trying so hard to bring to us? Will our elected leaders stand up to these forces of disintegration, despair, and destruction, or hold fast?

The answer will be different for each one of them, and for each one of us.

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  1. Jaladhi says

    Jun 4, 2015 at 4:44 pm

    The left is just as much of a liar as the Muslims are. Both use taqqiya but the left calls it their “progressive” agenda and no truth impede it!( Or the truth will be sacrificed on the alter of progressivism).

    • mortimer says

      Jun 4, 2015 at 11:28 pm

      Post-modern, Leftarded cultural Marxists don’t use TRUTH or FACTS when they can use TRUTHINESS!

      You don’t look truthiness up in a book…you look truthiness up in YOUR GUT!

      Truthiness is something a person making an argument or assertion badly WANTS to be true or that they claim to know intuitively “from the gut” or because it “feels right” without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.

      Truthiness is the lazy man’s way and most Leftards are lazy as hell about facts.

      • spot on says

        Jun 5, 2015 at 8:45 am

        Right on, Mortimer.

        Another definition of “Truthiness” is a narrative that rings true. Kind of like a song that is enjoyed. Such a song can be a bold faced lie with no relation to the facts, but it gets repeated over and over because it sounds good. Finally it gets accepted as truth by large numbers of people who will not listen to reason and logic. Governments have stayed awake at night making up this kind of propaganda that has the right narrative and “ring” to it in order to propagandize the public.

        The MSM is not for news purposes… pseudo entertainment maybe… but without doubt it is the main propaganda arm of the left.

        In years past, much time was spent with children in schools teaching them to understand facts and reasoning. What is happening now with propaganda so easily accepted as truth reflects an extremely serious decline in our teaching standards in our schools.

        There is also something much more sinister about all this. The MSM and Obama are working with each other very closely to propagandize against the police. The attack on our police is only step one in an orchestrated event by the left. What is their next step, and the next after that.

    • Huck Folder says

      Jun 5, 2015 at 2:09 am

      “…a Black man was shot on [sic] a bus stop on his way to work* and we should treat this like any other case of police violence.#”

      * His ‘work’ was to kill a cop.

      # ‘any other’? – which other?

      A policeman defending himself is police violence?

      Well it was a policeman, and it was violent – started by the guy with the big knife, and HATE in his heart.
      Give Sarsour a gun and a badge, and send a shroom-minded guy in HER direction and let’s see what she does.

      I will enjoy seeing how they twist themselves out of their lies. Just like their ‘well known (and beloved for life) imam’.

      I want to see hate crime charges brought against ALL of them. They all saw and heard what THEY wanted to see and hear in their incest addled, mo-infested ‘brains’.

    • Shane says

      Jun 5, 2015 at 10:50 am

      Left wingers are ruthless and amoral in promoting their agenda, just as their Islamofascist allies are. The left wants Blacks all agitated before next year’s election so that they will come out in large numbers to vote for the Democrat presidential candidate. We must support the police and expose the leftists lies that slander the police. Perhaps the police should continue to ignore crime in da hood and let the peeps slaughter each other.

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Jun 4, 2015 at 4:45 pm

    ************** OFF TOPIC BUT VERY GOOD NEWS ABOUT PAM **************

    Go to her blog — http://www.pamelageller.com — and find the “Reuters makes up headline” post.

    Read it and you will see her mentioning that THE FBI IS FINALLY KEEPING HER INFORMED AND WARNED — in this case about the beheading plan.

    For all of us here who think of her day and night, and pray for her survival, that is a bit of comfort . . . but she still, of course, is NEVER EVER OUT OF DANGER.

  3. Robert G. Smith says

    Jun 4, 2015 at 4:45 pm

    I feel no sorrow that another Islamic terrorist has been eliminated. The only sorrow I feel is it did not eliminate them all.

  4. Jack Holan says

    Jun 4, 2015 at 5:02 pm

    If you had proof positive of enough guilt for a pick up and body cameras with speakers it would be twisted by the Mob in the Street and the Snakes in Hamas-linked CAIR and other like organizations. There needs to be a change of perception by the public and by our elected officials to quiet or balance out the former.

  5. nabi ZK (pbum) says

    Jun 4, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    Pamela Geller for President!

    nabi ZK (pbum)

  6. RonaldB says

    Jun 4, 2015 at 6:05 pm

    “The ultimate goal of the Left’s war on the police is blood in the streets, and the collapse and downfall of American society. Islamic supremacists hope to capitalize upon that chaos by overseeing the imposition of Islamic law”

    Absolutely true.

    The collapse of the society under attack is clearly described by SK Malik in “The Quranic Concept of War”. The period of peace is used to bring terror to the intended victims as part of a campaign to destroy their spiritual confidence in themselves and their society.

    It is quite obvious now that the pre-violence strategy of Islam is to paralyze the authorities and the people completely when confronted with a Muslim taking any action whatsoever. In this case, the blacks are being used as a surrogate. The US Attorney General will bring a federal investigation and lawsuit any time a black is shot or injured by police. It is more than obvious to police that if this holds true for blacks, it holds even stronger for Muslims.

    Gun control is also part of this intent. Stupid, but violent, Muslims like Usaama Rahim want the freedom to injure or kill anyone they feel like attacking, and the inability or unwillingness of the police to stop them is part of the strategy against the non-Muslim society. It would set the jihad back if people organized themselves to defend against street-Muslims and had the weapons to do so. Hence, the strong push by the left for gun control, which has been shown to have no beneficial effects on crime whatsoever.

    In this case, the FBI and the police were on top of it, so there is little wonder the Islamic groups are probing for an opportunity to charge the police. It probably won’t be this case, as the actions were so well documented. But, the next police who shoots a violent black or Muslim without benefit of a cam recorder…will feel the full weight of the law. Which is why the crime in Baltimore is going through the roof.

  7. Wellington says

    Jun 4, 2015 at 7:14 pm

    Respecting the preservaton of wonderful things like liberty, equality under the law, taking responsiblity for one’s behavior, refusing to play the victim card time and time again, wanting equal opportunity without demanding equal results, and the importance of moral intelligence and common sense, modern liberalism, that is to say Leftthink since the 1960s, is arguably an even greater obstacle to the preservation of the wonderful things I listed above than is Islam. Minus modern liberalism, which should always be distingusihed from pre-Sixties liberalism, dealing with the inflexible, barbaric and none too bright Islamic take on existence would be immeasurably easier. After all, interference for and exculpation of evil is actually worse than evil itself because evil denied cover can be clearly seen and therefore much more easily taken care of.

    There’s no way around it. If one despises Islam, then one must also despise modern liberalism. Those liberals who do “get” Islam are, I would argue, actually a throw back to old-fashion liberalism of the Truman and Attlee kind, who sometimes “got” things better than conservatives of that age (e.g., expediting the end of racial discrimination) Yes, conservtaives like myself might still argue with such old-fashion liberals about things like taxes and the extent of government which is optimal, but on the matter of properly identifying inquity and stupidty conservatives and old-style liberals are in unison. Alas, there are too few Trumans and Attlees left out there. Wish there were far more. I might add that modern conservatives, who definitely see things more clearly, could still use more resolve when promoting their views than they have of late, as conservatives like Margaret Thatcher and Ronadl Reagan surely did.

    • Angemon says

      Jun 4, 2015 at 7:50 pm

      Liberals:

      http://liberallogic101.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/liberals-500×381.jpg

      • Wellington says

        Jun 4, 2015 at 8:02 pm

        Good one. Thanks for that, Angemon.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Jun 4, 2015 at 8:42 pm

      As always, thanks for another of your superb commentaries . . .

    • Liberals against Islam says

      Jun 5, 2015 at 2:13 am

      Glad to see some recognition of the difference between old style liberals and modern “liberals” who have turned liberalism into something like its opposite:

      https://www.facebook.com/pages/Liberals-Against-Islam/1520132154919748

  8. Frosty says

    Jun 4, 2015 at 10:27 pm

    If you reduce ALLl the many instances of police brutality over the last few years down to this one incident and conclude it’s all about the evil left or something than honey you have not been paying attention. Not everything is about Jihad or Israel. There was a time this site was worth reading if you were worried about jihad. No more. Now it’s a typical reactionary place with commenters screaming about The blacks! The immigrants! The this, the that! Fingers plugged firmly in ears at all times. Sure, go right ahead and ignore the rise of the police state, “the blacks” are just outliers. Right?
    What a damn shame.

    • Bezelel says

      Jun 4, 2015 at 10:58 pm

      Frosty, I sense you have some issues that prevent you from connecting the dots. We all do to some extent but the bottom line:” they’re both about breaking down the old authorities and the old system, and installing a radically new order.” Now do you see some bright future in that scenario or not? The current system is the one that got us this far and even the early symptoms of introducing a breaking away from it has brought pain to all but the most well insulated elites. You cannot do things wrong and expect them to work right.

    • duh_swami says

      Jun 5, 2015 at 8:26 am

      Frost…If you don’t like JW, ‘Hit the road Jack, and doncha come back no mo’…

    • Angemon says

      Jun 5, 2015 at 1:47 pm

      Frosty posted:

      “There was a time this site was worth reading if you were worried about jihad. No more. Now it’s a typical reactionary place with commenters screaming about The blacks! The immigrants! The this, the that!”

      Well, Frosty, if your misunderstanding of this site affects you that much, remember: no one is forcing you to visit JW and read the articles and comments.

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