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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The LA Schools’ “Not Credible” Threat

Dec 17, 2015 2:05 pm By Robert Spencer

In FrontPage today, I discuss how, even though many are “kinda tired of hearing all this ISIS,” they’re still coming.

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When the Los Angeles Board of Education closed all its schools Tuesday because of a terror threat, officials in New York City, which had received a similar threat, were contemptuous. New York Mayor Bill de Blasiocharacterized the threat as “so generic, so outlandish” that it was beneath serious notice. “It would be a huge disservice to our nation,” he declared, “to close down our school system.” New York Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton said “we cannot allow ourselves to raise levels of fear. Certainly raise levels of awareness. But this is not a credible threat.”

Fair enough. But there is enough of a credible threat in general to warrant taking every precaution. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-California), said that the threat (which was initially reported, of course, as a generic “terrorist threat,” with no indication that it was Islamic,” lacked “the feel of the way the jihadists usually write.” He pointed out, according to the Los Angeles Times, that “the roughly 350-word message did not capitalize Allah in one instance, nor did it cite a Koranic verse. He said the elements of the threatened attack also seemed unlikely, such as the claim that it would involve 32 people with nerve gas.”

Sherman claimed that “there isn’t a person on the street who couldn’t have written this.” Smearing the flyover states with Hollywood insouciance, he added: “Everybody in Nebraska could have written this.” He even suggested that an “Islamophobe” wrote the threat: “I don’t know whether this was sent by a radical Islamic jihadist or somebody who had an anti-Islamic agenda or just a prankster.”

Maybe the threats did come from someone with “an anti-Islamic agenda or just a prankster.” But those with an “anti-Islamic agenda” don’t really need to work that hard. Islamic jihadis are doing a fine job of issuing threats all by themselves. In September 2014, the Islamic State issued a lengthy communiqué calling upon Muslims in the West to murder non-Muslims. It included the exhortation to “strive to your best and kill any disbeliever, whether he be French, American, or from any of their allies.” It followed this up with a quotation from the Qur’an: “O you who have believed, take your precaution and [either] go forth in companies or go forth all together” (4:71).

The Islamic State exhortation continued:

If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him. Do not lack. Do not be contemptible. Let your slogan be, “May I not be saved if the cross worshipper and taghūt (ruler ruling by manmade laws) patron survives.”

Is a believer in the Muslim believer’s pious duty to “smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him” likely to have moral scruples over the prospect of attacking a school full of young Infidels?

Jihadis didn’t hesitate to do so in September 2004, when Muslims under the command of Chechen jihad leader Shamil Basayev took 1,300 hostages at a school in Beslan, a town in the Russian Republic of North Ossetia; ultimately the jihadists murdered well over 300 people.

Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, nonetheless criticized the Los Angeles schools closure, saying that although “it makes sense to err on the side of safety,” when “a closure like this takes place, unfortunately it will embolden others to try it again.” He does not appear to have discussed the fact that Islamic jihadis are quite obviously already emboldened.

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, on the defensive, said: “I think it’s irresponsible…to criticize that decision at that point.” Referring obliquely to the San Bernardino jihad massacre, he added: “Southern California has been through a lot in the past few weeks. Should we put our children through the same thing?” He said that in view of the fact that the threat referred to “assault rifles and machine pistols,” Los Angeles officials had to be careful: “These are obviously things we take very seriously.”

One student, however, was as dismissive as de Blasio and Bratton: “I’m kinda tired of hearing all this ISIS. It’s annoying. I’ve got finals.” However, he did ultimately recognize that there was a real threat: “But I guess it’s good to take control. Better safe than sorry.”

Better safe than sorry indeed. The ridicule being directed Wednesday toward Los Angeles school and law enforcement officials is misplaced, and stems from the general desire among the political and media elites to downplay and deny the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat. The elites will keep telling us there is no significant problem until the AK’s start firing and the bombs start going off. Then, of course, it will be time for them to switch gears and start publishing new stories about fears of an “anti-Muslim backlash.”

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  1. nacazo says

    Dec 17, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    Rep. Brad Sherman (D-California) said: ““the roughly 350-word message did not capitalize Allah in one instance, nor did it cite a Koranic verse. ”

    Al least the elites are starting to realize that the terrorists, for some strange reason, are always mentioning that religion that has nothing to do with terrorism. To hijack it obviously…

    /sarc off

    • Jerry says

      Dec 19, 2015 at 2:29 pm

      How many threatening words, capitalised or not, are contained in the Qur’an?

      It is about time to stop publishing, disseminating and inciting the carrying out of all those threats.

  2. Mo says

    Dec 17, 2015 at 2:34 pm

    “I’m kinda tired of hearing all this ISIS. It’s annoying. I’ve got finals.”

    That’s the purpose of false threats by actual jihadists – complacency. Or, if they are truly fakes entirely, that becomes the result.

    Either way, it keeps everyone off balance, all the time.

    • Bezelel says

      Dec 17, 2015 at 6:56 pm

      Mo, “That’s the purpose of false threats by actual jihadists – complacency. Or, if they are truly fakes entirely, that becomes the result.”
      Yes, Like bringing a fake bomb to school and claiming it is a just a homemade clock and cry victim when everyone reacts.

    • dlbrand says

      Dec 18, 2015 at 2:01 am

      Mo said: “…. false threats ….. keeps everyone off balance….”

      Indeed. In brief.

      • Gea says

        Dec 18, 2015 at 8:45 am

        New York City is invaded by Muslims, who are replacing Jews as they had replaced Jews inb Europe and now are conducting jihad in the midst of Europe. De Blasio, NYC Mayor is an idiot just as Bloomberg was, bending backwards to the Muslims, who had now invaded NYC with their halal stands and their butts in the air…farting at our democracy.

        When 2 policemen were murdered by a crazed black Muslim, it was explained away by his “anger about blacks being killed by the police” rather then following instruction of Koran, which was published on his social media page. Stupid Bloomberg wanted to allow Islamic center at GROUND ZERO to show how nice Americans are. MORONS, just as Michael Moore

        REFUSE to lose your cool and do not just sit there but go on offense! We must sue all mosques and other organizations promoting Islam in uor midst as it is like promoting Nazism and Communism…which are other 2 totalitarian supremacist and imperialistic ideologies that wanted to destroy humanity. Those nasty ideologies were defeated and we must defeat Islam ITSELF.

        Islam is not compatible with US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and therefore does not belong to ANY society that respects liberty, justice and human rights of ALL individuals.

        Contact your Congressman and senators to defeat Paul Ryan’s budget bill because it contains provision to bringing more Muslims into USA, just as Obama demands. Obma must be removed from power ASAP! SUE the SOB!

  3. somehistory says

    Dec 17, 2015 at 4:14 pm

    Dismissively, he said it acked “the feel of the way the jihadists usually write.”

    So, he is familiar with how “jihadists usually write”? How many has he read?
    If there is a *usual* way they write, then it is beyond foolish to pretend that those who worship islam’s beast are not terrorists.

    Since moslims come from all countries, all nationalities, all ethnic groups, raised in differing cultures before converting, there are bound to be differences, even between those who take up islam’s evil sword to quell their inner struggle to kill unbelievers of their evil, satanic beast. Not all of them will express themselves the exact same way.

  4. William says

    Dec 17, 2015 at 4:32 pm

    Be wary when the government try assuring us not to worry. It seems like whenever Obama assures us not to worry, a terrorist activity happens soon after. Also, remember Ebola in America, and how the CDC and Obama assured us how safe we were, until people died? How quickly have we forgotten about Ebola. It is more important to calm nerves than to protect people’s lives. You see, if people are agitated about something, it means there is a perception the government if failing in their job. They don’t want us to think that.

  5. Rob says

    Dec 17, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    LA school district takes threat seriously to the general approval of the LA Community.
    Clock Boy’s school community the does same and are castigated.

  6. Ashley says

    Dec 17, 2015 at 4:49 pm

    Today, many schools across the nation were targeted by threats of terror.

    I read that it cost LA some 29 million dollars to close down all 900+ schools. So in a very real sense, the “hoax” WAS destructive.

    I fear these sort of threats will only increase, exhausting and perhaps collapsing the system.

    No easy answers…

  7. mortimer says

    Dec 17, 2015 at 4:49 pm

    de Blasio is a Neville Chamberlain.

    • BringBackTheCrusades says

      Dec 18, 2015 at 6:41 am

      deBlasio is a red diaper baby who despises his own country & culture. As he continues to destroy NY by emasculating the police force, he has to peddle that there is no credible threat. He will be the first to be “shocked” when jihadis attack after ignoring credible threats…

  8. Ashley says

    Dec 17, 2015 at 5:10 pm

    Here is the text of the threat Houston had to deal with last night. The link to the article is here:

    http://abc13.com/1125893/

    “Hello there. There is something you should know about, taking place
    tomorrow of 12/17/15, Thursday.

    My story starts here. I have been bullied every day here, in one of the
    district high schools. Just because, I am ‘different’. I turned to
    religion, to solve my problems, and found faith and comfort in Allah. He
    has helped me through a lot. So now, I must help him. He has called upon
    me and my fellow comrades to take action against you blasphemers and
    non-believers. You have denied Allah for too long. My 46 Jihad
    affiliates and I are going to unleash an massacre of epic proportion,
    targeting every single school and student in the district. We have an
    assorted collection of Kalashnikov rifles, MG240 Light machine guns, RPG
    Launchers, .50 Cal Sniper rifles, hand grenades, and to top it off:
    suicide vests. We have already planted napalm, propane, and pressure
    cooker explosives in multiple schools. They are set to go off in places
    that will cause maximum structural damage to each building: for maximum
    casualty. First responders will be in for quite the surprise, as we have
    highly trained sniper forces straight from Ar Raqqa. We will fight for
    our cause tomorrow, and all students in every school in the entire
    district will be slaughtered for their blasphemy and unbelief in the one
    true God, Allah. You will no longer get away with your dishonesty to our
    prophet.

    Allah has called upon us:
    Quran (3:56) – “As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with
    terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have
    anyone to help.”

    You will no longer deny the wrath of Allah. He has sent us to serve his
    holy army.

    My name is (name redacted). You may not know this name now,
    but my name will be known to everyone. I will be known as the one man
    who truly saved this earth. For Allah.

    And if you think you will stop us, by canceling schools, or perhaps,
    adding security, it will not help.

    If school is canceled, then there will be bombings regardless of whether
    students are there or not, and mass shootings will be taken to the
    streets. If security is stepped up, for tomorrow’s fatwa, it will not
    help. We will take out any police and other security by any means
    necessary, even if we go down with them.”

    The threat ends with Arabic scripture reading, “God is great, God Prophet Mohammed.”
    __________________________________

    How the hell can someone decipher a “credible” threat versus a hoax?

    Hope they nab the little prick…

  9. Undaunted says

    Dec 17, 2015 at 8:02 pm

    The on-scene commander at Beslan was Ruslan Khuchbarov, AKA “Polkovnik”, not Basayev, as seen at this link:

    http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2015/09/here-we-go-again.html

    We’re set up to get hit like at Beslan. Soon.

    http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2014/09/still-crazy-after-all-these-years.html

  10. Cliffhild says

    Dec 18, 2015 at 4:57 am

    ‘ But there is enough of a credible threat in general to warrant taking every precaution. ‘

    The problem is that you could be damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Which is exactly what the Muslims want — to get us into such a muddle we don’t know what we’re doing.

  11. Judi says

    Dec 18, 2015 at 6:39 am

    @ Cliffhild – I believe you are correct. Their intention is to overwhelm the police to such an extent that they are literally walking around in circles.

  12. duh_swami says

    Dec 18, 2015 at 6:54 am

    Allah has been very busy lately casting terror into the hearts of infidels,,,
    since he never actually does anything, surrogates called Mahoundians do his bidding for him..He wrote all about it in his best selling book, The Quran,,,you may have heard of it. One thing the pious are good at is following the orders of Allah and mimicking the behavior of Mahound,,,That’s good for them…bad for

  13. Kepha says

    Dec 18, 2015 at 12:33 pm

    Interestingly enough, we had a lockdown drill in the school where I teach the other day

    If they want to pull a Beslan here, find the names and mosques of the imams responsible for the most radical converts, and then sue to get everything down to the very last hairs in their beards.

    I heard someone was arrested for torching a mosque in California, and that residents of a Dutch town rioted when they heard that an asylum center would be placed in their back yards. Uncle Kepha remains a man of peace, but should a Beslan be pulled here in the States, even if he may not approve of forcing a few fire-breathing mullahs to swallow raw pork sausage before they’re lynched, but he will, in good liberal fashion, “understand”.

    If the police in good, civilized, progressive Sweden are telling folks that they’re up the creek if they can’t afford private security systems, then our poor old USA, in hock for social programs and military spending down to my great-grandkids’ generation, will probably also have a revival of vigilantism.

  14. steve says

    Dec 18, 2015 at 7:06 pm

    So this is what it has come to. Now every time some islamist crap is threatening the world its drop everything and follow the reactions of cowards that are simply acting out of fear of drawing responsibility and losing jobs or being sued. What role models they are for the students, the communities and the world to see. I’d rather die standing up and defending myself and screw the gun free zone crap than on my knees begging islamists like some child. Americans are standing up more and more and if forced to disobey stupid laws that make no sense then i’m sure it will be so be it. This administration is cowardly and traitorous and this president’s legacy will be just that plus the worse we have ever seen.

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