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Stop minimizing the reality of lone wolf jihadists

Jun 19, 2016 8:03 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The New York Post article below derides Obama’s diminishing of the seriousness of the lone wolf phenomenon. Obama dismissed Orlando jihad murderer Omar Mateen as “just another ‘lone actor’ operating in isolation, unconnected to any larger group of supporters.”

Those who minimize the gravity of jihadist ideology have been the ones busy chanting about gun control, claiming that Mateen was mentally ill as well as that he was a “lone actor.” Some even claim that he was no different from Thomas Mair – the alleged killer of British MP Jo Cox. Mair was a longtime supporter of the neo-Nazi National Alliance. What such chanters fail to realize is that the jihad ideology is active within our borders and violently drives the behaviors of those who adhere to it, whether they are mentally unbalanced or not. The Post article rightly says about Obama:

What he still doesn’t get is, “the enemies” aren’t just terrorists overseas but terrorists at home — along with their friends and relatives — and “the battlefield” is in our own communities. Until we grasp that shocking reality, we won’t be able to stop this cancer from spreading deeper into our own back yards.

This terrorist battlefield in our communities is ignited by the jihad ideology which is being regularly spread through commands from ISIS to terrorize and attack the West, calls from Al-Qaeda for lone wolf attacks, and calls to violence justified by Qur’anic invocations such as those that tell Muslims not to make friends with Jews and Christians (5:51), to “kill the disbelievers wherever you find them” (2:191), “to kill or crucify or cut the hands and feet of unbelievers” (5:33); to strike off the heads of unbelievers (47:4) and to instill “terror into the hearts of unbelievers” (8:12).

Traditional Islamic scholarship also divides the world in two: dar al-Islam and dar al-Harb; these terms have become a reference for jihadists. Dar al-harb (house of war) refers to non-Muslim land, as opposed to dar al-Islam (house of Islam), which is land already submitted to Islam. It follows that dar al-harb is land to be considered at war until that land finally becomes subjugated under dar al-Islam through conquest.

ISIS leader Abu Muhammad al-Adnani has stated:

The smallest action you do in their heartland is better and more enduring to us than what you would if you were with us. If one of you hoped to reach the Islamic State, we wish we were in your place to punish the Crusaders day and night.

Of course, in his call to terrorize the house of war he casts this jihad as defensive, ignoring the historic brutality of the global Islamic jihad.

Returning to Mateen’s rampage being minimized as that of a “lone actor”: a Reuters study demonstrated the not-so-lonely action of the “lone wolf”. About 90 so-called “lone wolf” Islamic State court cases since 2014 showed that three-quarters of those charged were alleged to be part of a group that met in person to discuss their plans. In those cases that did not involve meetings, defendants were almost always in contact with other sympathizers online. The Reuters investigation went on to declare that the  “lone wolf” image “obscures the extent to which individuals become radicalized through personal association with like-minded people.”

FBI director James Comey said that there were strong indications that Mateen “was inspired by foreign terrorist groups” and that authorities were “highly confident” that Mateen was partly “radicalized” over the Internet. Meanwhile, the extent to which he was “radicalized” at home and at the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce has yet to be investigated. Mateen’s Afghan father, Seddique Mir Mateen, is anti-American, and posted on the Web that “he expresses gratitude toward the Afghan Taliban”, which stones homosexuals to death. Seddique Mateen called the Taliban “our warrior brothers.” Omar Mateen also cheered 9/11 while in high school.

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“Why the ‘lone-wolf’ terrorist is a myth,” by Paul Sperry, New York Post, June 18, 2016:

 President Obama says don’t worry, the Orlando terrorist was just another “lone actor” operating in isolation, unconnected to any larger group of supporters. In fact, these so-called “lone wolves” are running in packs, and suggesting otherwise gives the public a false sense of security.

Yet Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson echoed Obama, saying Omar Mateen was “self-radicalized” without any religious, ideological or operational support from friends, family or others in the Muslim community.

“What we do know at this point is it appears this was a case of self-radicalization,” Johnson said. “He does not appear to have been part of any group.”

A more accurate picture is that Mateen, an Afghan-American, was part of a disturbingly large Muslim family of sympathizers, supporters and even co-conspirators.

For starters, his wife could face criminal charges in the attack on the gay Orlando nightclub, the deadliest act of terrorism in the US since 9/11. Noor Zahi Salman, who wed Mateen in 2011, reportedly told the FBI she knew about her husband’s planned attack and even drove him to the site of the massacre as part of a scouting operation. She also is said to have helped him case the Disney Springs shopping complex. What’s more, Salman allegedly was with Mateen when he bought ammo and a holster used in the attack.

Prosecutors have convened a grand jury to present evidence against Salman, a Palestinian immigrant, who ultimately could be indicted as an accessory to the murders of 49 people and the attempted murders of 53 others. Possible other charges include failing to report a terrorist attack and lying to federal agents.

It appears the seeds of Mateen’s hatred were planted at home.

His Afghan immigrant father, who founded a nonprofit group to support the Taliban, preached gays should be punished. In a video Seddique Mir Mateen posted on the Web, he expresses gratitude toward the Afghan Taliban, who stone homosexuals to death, calling them “our warrior brothers.”

Other statements make it clear the elder Mateen could have passed anti-gay views onto his son.

“God will punish those involved in homosexuality,” the elder Mateen said in the wake of his son’s rampage. He seemed to rationalize the targeting of gays by pointing out that his son was offended by two gay men kissing in front of his 3-year-old son during a recent family trip to Miami.

Other Mateen videos are full of anti-US rhetoric regarding America’s military role in Afghanistan. That influence may have showed up in his 29-year-old son’s statement to a 911 operator during the mass shooting.

“He said the reason he was doing this was he wanted America to stop bombing his country,” said a survivor who overheard the conversation.

His father’s anti-American views may have seeped into the terrorist’s psyche at an earlier age. High-school classmates recall a 14-year-old Mateen jumping up and down and cheering the attacks on 9/11. “That’s what America deserves,” he reportedly exclaimed, while praising Osama bin Laden.

Mateen likely absorbed more anti-gay and anti-US messaging at the small Fort Pierce, Fla., mosque his father helped run. Authorities say the radical Islamic center has been a “breeding ground” for terrorists, including the first American suicide bomber in Syria, alongside whom Omar Mateen prayed. Mateen worshipped there for more than a dozen years, praying up to four times a week. State incorporation records show the senior Mateen served as the mosque’s vice president and sat on its board for several years.

Seddique Mateen insists he did not know his son was radicalized and was angered by his actions. “If I did know, 1 percent, that he was committing such a crime myself, I would have arrested him myself,” he claimed. Also serving on the board of his pro-Taliban nonprofit, The Durand Jirga Inc., are two daughters and an Afghan-born son-in-law, who’s also active in politics in Afghanistan.

Just weeks before the attack, property records I’ve obtained show Omar Mateen transferred his interest in a Fort Pierce condo over to one of the sisters and and the Afghan brother-in-law, a possible indication the family could have had some knowledge of his martyrdom plans. Authorities say the fatally wounded Mateen clearly was prepared to die in a gun battle.

The mysterious brother-in-law — Mustafa Abasin, aka Mustafa Aurakzai, who shows an intense hatred for Donald Trump on social media — has been questioned by federal investigators, along with other family members. I’m also told FBI agents have expanded the investigation overseas to family connections in Afghanistan. On Friday, both Mateen’s widow and father were placed on the federal no-fly list.

This family radicalization echoes other recent “homegrown terror” cases……

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Filed Under: Barack Obama, Featured, Internet jihad, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S., United States Tagged With: Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Dar al-harb, Dar al-Islam, Islamic State, Omar Mateen, Pulse


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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 8:51 am

    For those of us who have not discovered Dr. Bill Warner, go here: http://www.politicalislam.com

    Bill Warner is another brilliant expert, like Robert, Pam, David Wood, Daniel Greenfield, and several other of those who have been trying for many years to shake Americans out of our lazy cluelessness about ORTHODOX, DEVOUT, COMPLETELY FAITHFUL, FULLY OBEDIENT MUSLIMS.

    Notice: I did NOT include “radical” in that list, because the persons who commit Islamic jihad are in living their lives as Muhammad did, and carrying out the commands of Allah in the Qur’an Chapter Nine, titled “Taubah” — meaning “ultimatum”.

    PLEASE, TAKE A FEW MINUTES — while there is still a bit of free time in this weekend — to email your federal and state senators and representatives to tell them of those ACCURATE WORDS that describe Omar Mateen, the San Bernardino murders, the Tsarnaev Boston Marathon bombing, Fort Hood, Chattanooga, and the BIGGEST ORTHODOX, DEVOUT, COMPLETELY FAITHFUL, FULLY OBEDIENT, JIHAD we have ever had: September 11th, 2001 — with almost 3,000 American “infidels” who died as a consequence of the “god” all Muslims worship, bloodthirsty Allah.

    CHRONOLOGICALLY, Taubah comes as the 2nd to last chapter, thereby cancelling all previous peaceful passages regarding Infidels. For a detailed explanation, go to http://www.citizenwarrior.com, typing “The Qur’an’s Last Word on non-Muslims in its searchox.

    BUT BACK TO BILL WARNER — His current video “Winning the Jihad War” is 9 minutes long, and was made just after the Orlando slaughter. He begins with that topic, and then brings up the wishful idea of “reforming” Islam, and THE MYTH OF LONE WOLVES. The last point is about how to defeat Islam’s agenda for total victory.

    Note also that he has written an extensive number of publications ( find them by clicking on ” Book Store” at the top). I bought Sharia law for non-Muslims and A Simple Koran. Superb, with citations and contextual history to back up his assertions. Dr. Warner is a low-profile kind of counter-jihadist, but a wonderful resource in his own way.

  2. Alexander the Grape says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 8:57 am

    Yes, Dusty. The problem is the Koran. To deny they have an obligation to violence is to deny their “holy” book. It is terribly difficult for them, and has all Muslims breaking out into a sweat just thinking about having to deny the Koran.

    My suggestion is to ban the sale of the book completely. Then every time an American is killed by a muslim, ten Mosques, chosen at random, get bulldozed. Hear this please Mr. Trump. This last atrocity would have netted 500 mosques. Not bad eh!

  3. Polk1970 says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 9:14 am

    “High-school classmates recall a 14-year-old Mateen jumping up and down and cheering the attacks on 9/11”

    He sure was “petrified” of “backlash and retaliation” wasn’t he?.
    Wonder IF he got into any fights that day?

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 9:38 am

      I wonder when the MSM will mention that – – –

      14-year-old Mateen was jumping up and down and cheering the attacks on 9/11.

  4. Jaladhi says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 9:30 am

    There is nothing like a” lone wolf” terrorist. They are all part of a gig gang all connected by Quran and the gang is called ummah. Though it can be compared to mafia but really there is not much comparison beyond the obvious. This is much more more powerful due to the introduction of blind “religious” component in it.

    So there is no “lone wolf” in Islam’s terror organization, they are all soldiers of ummah

    • Jack Diamond says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 10:33 am

      More fairy tales to avoid the awful truth. Because “Better dead than a Bigot” is their real motto.

      Amazing how un-alone these wolves are, they are in fact pack wolves. A pack where their family is aware of everything they do; a pack where their local Muslim community (which knows everybody’s business) is aware of everything they do; a pack where their mosque (which they might even attend four times a week) knows everything they do; a pack where an imam, a religious authority, if not the Caliph, has sanctified everything they do; in any case their scriptures, Qur’an and ahadith, have already commanded and obligated it, long before the Internet, for a billion plus potential Slaves and Soldiers of AllahMuhammad. How can any wolf be seen as alone in such a crowd? Just because a swarm of mosque-itos are dispersed doesn’t mean they aren’t still a swarm.

      • Jay Boo says

        Jun 19, 2016 at 10:53 am

        If the Obama administration refuses to monitor what is said in mosques then it is safe to assume that they are all preaching hate, otherwise there would be nothing to hide.

      • Jaladhi says

        Jun 19, 2016 at 2:27 pm

        Yeah, these mosque-itos are carrying zikhad(jihad) virus!! LOl..

    • خَليفة says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 2:16 pm

      Agreed.

      Wolves hunt in packs. A lone wolf ( one no longer hunting with its pack ) must hunt on its own. Regardless of which pack it is in, ( even a pack of 1 ) a wolf is still a wolf.

      I’m obviously talking about Muslims, not canis lupus. I speak of internal motivation and actions. To compare Muslims to wolves would be insulting to the wolves. So I apologize to any wolves “hoooowuuu howwu”

  5. Norger says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 9:49 am

    The following is the last paragraph in Andrew McCarthy’s book, “Willful Blindness,” about his prosecution of the “Blind Sheikh,” Abdel Rahman:

    “Islam is like fire. For the majority of Muslims who would reject, reform or tacitly ignore its combustible elements, it is a force for good: a source of comfort, a guide to dignity and the life honorably lived. But for countless others–not a fringe, but tens of millions over whom the majority is bereft of influence–it is a conflagration waiting to happen. We are the realm it would engulf. And there is always a Blind Sheikh ready to light the fuse. We can open our eyes and see it. Or not.”

  6. Angemon says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 9:54 am

    President Obama says don’t worry, the Orlando terrorist was just another “lone actor” operating in isolation, unconnected to any larger group of supporters. In fact, these so-called “lone wolves” are running in packs, and suggesting otherwise gives the public a false sense of security.

    Yeah, that’s the gist of it.

    • Norger says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 10:24 am

      Put another way, the Jihadis swim in a sea filled with fellow Muslims who explicitly or tacitly support them, or who are at best indifferent, because they all want the same ultimate goal–the triumph of Islam. For example, CAIR fits somewhere in this continuum. It appears that very few Muslims oppose the militants in any meaningful way; perhaps there are those who would like to, but don’t want to be declared apostates.

  7. duh_swami says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 9:57 am

    Every third lone wolf will be shot…the second one just left…What ever happened to ‘Sudden Jihad Syndrome’?

    • Michael Copeland says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 12:24 pm

      Sudden Jihad Syndrome is now “spontaneous volatile extremism”.
      Now you know.
      http://www.libertygb.org.uk/news/jihadic-violence-and-police-newspeak

  8. Jay Boo says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 10:30 am

    The Hillary Plan:

    “Can’t we just move along and talk some more about irrational fear against Muslims?”

    “(What difference does it make) – – – if gays are murdered in Orlando or other Americans are murdered at a Christmas party in San Bernardino?”

  9. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 10:51 am

    Most of us think of Islam as having its start as a religioso organized crime gang, but it first started with the Holy Prophet Mohammed hanging out on a street corner in Mecca threatening everybody else with murder for failing to accept him as the… Holy Prophet. There is much individualism in Islam, every Moslem is a world unto himself. Mecca, a burning threadbare hellhole that gave birth to the world’s worst ever nightmare: the Moslem.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 11:11 am

      I don’t see much in orthodox Islam. For orthodox Muslims, independent reason, and therefore independent conscience, are suppressed, often with terrifying success.

      • eduardo odraude says

        Jun 19, 2016 at 11:12 am

        Meant to say, “I don’t see much individualism in orthodox Islam.”

      • Jack Diamond says

        Jun 19, 2016 at 11:20 am

        The “individualism” in Islam is modeling yourself on one individual, Muhammad. The appeal of Islam is never having to think for yourself again.

    • خَليفة says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 4:12 pm

      If you have not seen this, you should watch it, and save the link to share with others.

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9lIuUjPs0

  10. jewdog says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 11:05 am

    Well, look at the bright side: The wolf should probably be taken off the endangered species list in the Lower 48.

  11. eduardo odraude says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 11:08 am

    Not sure we should insult that cute looking wolf by comparing him to a jihadist. Some scientists suggest that homo sapiens only became dominant because we tamed wolves, and wolves — now dogs — gave us a huge survival advantage — in hunting, as watchdogs, etc. Was a jihadist ever man’s best friend?

    • Jack Diamond says

      Jun 19, 2016 at 11:35 am

      Calumny against wolves, and dogs. Muslims themselves a likened Islam to a snake (sorry snake lovers). It’s left to human evil, or the demonic realm, for analogies. Leave the poor animal kingdom alone.

  12. mortimer says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 11:33 am

    Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Absence of evidence that the perpetrators were linked to ISIS or other terrorists is not proof that they did not have contacts with them, but merely the trail has not be found. A trail or confession may come later, as in the case of the 9/11 perpetrators…their motives and methods came out here and there over many years.

    Jihad-terror groups are conspiratorial and so they intentionally remove evidence of their contacts.

  13. davej says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 11:59 am

    The Koran is rotten to the kore.

    It is clearly hate speech and should be banned in the USA.

    Then let them try to defend it.

  14. Abu Nudnik says

    Jun 19, 2016 at 12:44 pm

    Johnson and the President wrapped up their investigation very quickly! Kudos!

  15. Manuele says

    Jun 20, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    A JACKASS HE IS. WHEN IS WORD OF TRUTH START TO COME OUT OF OBAMA’S TWISTED TONGUE? FOR YOUR INFORMATION MR JACKASS IN COMMAND, “IT IS PEOPLE THAT USES GUNS TO MURDER PEOPLE, GUNS DON’T JUST FIRE BY ITSELF.” I SAY THAT THE LONGER YOU SOIL THE WHITE HOUSE, THE TRUTH CONTINUES TO BE TWISTED BY THE LIKES OF YOU (OBAMA) HILARY CLINTON, JOHN KERRY, JOE BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATS. MAY YOU ALL ROT WHILE STILL SCOURGE THE SOIL YOU WALK ON

  16. linnte says

    Jun 20, 2016 at 9:56 pm

    This article was so REFRESHING! He gets it!

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