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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Did the FBI Goad Jihadis Into Attacking the Garland Muhammad Cartoon Contest?

Aug 9, 2016 5:04 am By Robert Spencer

Over at PJ Media I discuss how the Daily Beast is trying to demonize the FBI and cover for jihad killers:

Garland

Is the FBI one of the chief motivators of jihad activity?

The Daily Beast thinks so, as do many others. Friday’s article about how an undercover FBI agent supposedly goaded the jihad terrorists who attacked the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland, Texas, in May 2015 has been getting a great deal of attention.

But is a rogue, “Islamophobic” FBI really badgering Muslims who would otherwise have been peaceful, law-abiding citizens until they finally snap and go jihadi?

Only in the Left’s febrile fantasies.

The Beast’s Katie Zavadski writes:

Days before an ISIS sympathizer attacked a cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, he received a text from an undercover FBI agent. ‘Tear up Texas,’ the agent messaged Elton Simpson days before he opened fire at the Draw Muhammad event, according to an affidavit (pdf) filed in federal court Thursday.

“Tear up Texas”? Was that the push Simpson needed?

Zavadski provides the chosen context for her narrative:

That revelation comes amidst a national debate about the use of undercover officers and human sources in terrorism cases.

This “national” debate revolves around the assumption that, absent this undercover FBI agent telling him to “tear up Texas,” Simpson would have remained a peaceful, law-abiding member of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix.

That Simpson would never have dreamed of driving to Garland with his fellow jihadi, Nadir Soofi, and opening fire at the Muhammad cartoon event. (The event was meant to defend the freedom of speech against violent intimidation. I was co-organizer of the event with Pamela Geller and spoke at it, and was inside the building when Simpson started shooting in the parking lot.)

Elton “Ibrahim” Simpson, however, is an unlikely poster child for entrapment — and Zavadski must know this, at the very least, from the content she included in her own article.

Responding to the undercover agent’s text, Simpson wrote:

U know what happened in Paris. So that goes without saying … No need to be direct.

What happened in Paris? In January 2015, Islamic jihadists murdered twelve cartoonists in the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for doing exactly what was happening in Garland: drawing Muhammad.

Simpson was saying there was “no need to be direct” — because the FBI agent should have already known he planned to commit mass murder. Further, Simpson wrote that it “goes without saying.”

Ms. Zavadski: how could Simpson possibly have been clearer about your entire article being bunk?

The texts between the undercover agent and Simpson, Zavadski tells us:

… were included in the indictment, released Thursday, of Erick Jamal Hendricks of Charlotte, North Carolina. He was charged with conspiring to provide material support to ISIS. The 35-year-old tried to recruit other Americans to form an ISIS cell on secret compounds and introduced an undercover agent to one of the Draw Muhammad attackers, according to the FBI.

Hendricks, writes Zavadski:

… asked the undercover officer about the Draw Muhammad event’s security, size, and police presence, during the event, according to an affidavit filed in court.

No entrapment there, and none was needed. Hendricks also wrote to the undercover agent, thinking he was in Garland:

If you see that pig [Pamela Geller] make your ‘voice’ heard against her.

Elsewhere in the article, Zavadski refers to Geller as “a notorious Islamophobe.” Tellingly, Zavadski never employs pejorative language for the jihad killers.

So Hendricks tried to recruit a cooperating witness for his Islamic State cell. If the cooperating witness and the FBI informant had not been involved in the case, would Simpson and Hendricks have become stockbrokers?

Well, as Zavadski knows from the remainder of the affidavit, Ibrahim Simpson had been planning to wage jihad for quite some time before the Muhammad cartoon event.

Along with Soofi and Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, who supplied weapons to the pair and helped them train, he sought information about pipe bombs and plotted to attack the Super Bowl. Simpson also planned to go to Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS), long before anyone told him to “tear up Texas.”

The Daily Beast’s narrative that the FBI creates jihadists is absurd. It is part of the ongoing mainstream media endeavor to diminish, downplay, and deny the grim reality of Islamic jihad terrorism.

They would have objective, reasonable people believe that if the FBI would leave these poor dears alone, they would never think to carry out the Qur’an’s commands to “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89, 9:5), and to apply the Sharia death penalty for “blasphemy.”…

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", claiming victim status, FBI, Featured, Jihad in the U.S., journalistic bias Tagged With: Daily Beast, Garland, Ibrahim Simpson, Katie Zavadski


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  1. kessler says

    Aug 9, 2016 at 5:25 am

    No – the FBI does not create Jihadis. But it does seem like the agent was encouraging the Jihadis to complete their mission. And that’s fine is it’s part of a plan to catch them and precautions are taken to ensure they will not be able to hurt anyone.
    But this was not done. As Pamela pointed out, the agent was present at the exhibition and did nothing to prevent the attack. The FBI had no team on standby – so what was their plan?
    It all sounds very sinister.
    I can’t blame Pamela for concluding this:

    “It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the Obama FBI wanted me and the other speakers at the event dead. Dutch freedom fighter Geert Wilders was the keynote speaker; he has been living with armed guards for years for supposedly “insulting Islam.” My colleague Robert Spencer has received numerous death threats from Muslims. Cartoon contest winner Bosch Fawstin drew Muhammad. Did Obama’s pro-Islam FBI want us all dead?
    What other conclusion can be reached?”

  2. Angemon says

    Aug 9, 2016 at 5:52 am

    I, for one, would love to see the Daily Beast explain how the FBI is goading jihad attacks worldwide. The people in DB *know* there’s this thing called “rest of the world”, right?

    • Alvin Woods says

      Aug 9, 2016 at 9:57 am

      Are you disagreeing with Pam Geller and Robert???

    • Alvin Woods says

      Aug 9, 2016 at 10:14 am

      Duh. Sorry I totally misread this article.

  3. Felix Quigley says

    Aug 9, 2016 at 6:06 am

    Pamela Geller wrote about Garland:

    QUOTE:…”“It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the Obama FBI wanted me and the other speakers at the event dead. ”
    http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/08/08/pamela-geller-fbi-want-us-dead-garland/

    Yes that is absolutely correct. The FBI under Obama (I would also add the Bushes, Clinton and Carter) want Geller, Wilders, Spencer and many others who stake all on fighting against the Islamisation of America and Europe dead.

    Islam creates the Jihad of course it does. But Islam is being facilitated by forces who are very high in the state aparatus. This is the most serious thing that can be.

    The issue of the Daily Beast is in one respect a diversión. All of these groups (and I have been looking closely at David Icke in this) are either controlled by the pro-Islam state forces or are their willing collaborators. There are many and Mediamatters.org, sections of Harry’s Place and the British SWP and UAF – these are all part.

    The real motors are the organs of the state and especially all of the Media without any exception from the BBC to Fox News. There can be no Friends. So how to proceed?

    This is where the great importance of the Trump phenomenon comes in. Trump has been victorious because of his personal initiative and courage and because the Great American People based on the Great American Revolution for Independence of the 18th century are moving into the fight.

  4. Felix Quigley says

    Aug 9, 2016 at 6:13 am

    Angemon I can only repeat to you what I wrote:

    QUOTE…”The issue of the Daily Beast is in one respect a diversión. All of these groups (and I have been looking closely at David Icke in this) are either controlled by the pro-Islam state forces or are their willing collaborators. There are many and Mediamatters.org, sections of Harry’s Place and the British SWP and UAF – these are all part.”

    There are many, many like the Daily Beast and they are in part responsable of course they are.

    But if you suggest they are supremely responsable no that is not correct and is a diversión from the real people who set the agenda.

    Day after day the BBC and French equivalent are making the agenda by painting Islam to be peaceable. The BBC is inseparable from the British state. It was the British State under Theresa May who is now PM who placed a ban on Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. A ban is an invitation to murder.

  5. citycat says

    Aug 9, 2016 at 6:22 am

    A Muslim president.
    A Muslim Mayor.
    Treachery to infidels everywhere.
    The sickness spreads.
    I don’t really like the word “sheople”, but it looks like it is.
    The people are being oppressed, wilfully, on an intelligence level, in many areas, like condition short attention span, with peoples’ concerns channelled into a river of mind crap.
    People have to break free the mental control.
    Yeah, that’ll be the day.

  6. Peter says

    Aug 9, 2016 at 6:32 am

    Since the FBI advised Molly Norris to change her identity and go into hiding, it should be clear to all that the FBI, despite its core value of “obedience to the Constitution,” is compromised and it will not support or defend (1) freedom of speech, (2) freedom of association, and (3) freedom of the press. All guaranteed constitutional rights that Hillary (Hilarious) Clinton recently said should be “reasonably” regulated. Integrity, which is on the FBI logo, should be substituted with “Islamization” or, at a minimum, “Incompetence.”

  7. R Cole says

    Aug 9, 2016 at 9:27 am

    Wow!!

    Any suggestion that the FBI was working with terrorists – to carry out attacks on US soil and against US citizens ~ is absolute madness!!

    ::

    Leftwing Supremacists

    “If you see that pig [Pamela Geller] make your ‘voice’ heard against her,” Hendricks allegedly told the undercover agent, referring to a notorious Islamophobe. DB

    The Daily Beast ‘Islamophobe’ comment shows where some on the Left have become out and out supremacists. Taken together with the media reporting after the Garland event, shows they are on side with the terrorists – and it appears that some even within the FBI share sympathy with the idea – that certain folks among us are deserving – not of life and liberty and protection under the law – but annihilation in keeping with the Islamic law code of justice.

  8. Georg says

    Aug 9, 2016 at 10:21 am

    But I thought Allah does everything. You know, like that time the Syrian airforce went 0 for 82 against the Israelis in Operation Mole Cricket 19. Must have been hard thanking him five times that day…

  9. linnte says

    Aug 9, 2016 at 10:28 am

    The old adage comes to mind, “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink”, fits here. But I have no doubt at all that our FBI wouldn’t mind at all if all Anti-jihad Public Warriors were gone from the world.

    This screams the question WHY? Islam wants world domination. So WHY would any ANY Government assist in their plan?

    • TR says

      Aug 9, 2016 at 3:12 pm

      The President and his Administration are the Revolutionaries who are the product of Radical Islam and the CPUSA which brought on the old SDS then morphed into RYM2, Democrat Socialist of America (DSA). Back in the 1960’s a bond of Solidarity in Struggle was formed between al Fatah, MB and the SDS. The exchange of information and planning together at conferences to over throw the US Government and rank and file people of the USA. Weatherman RYM1 wanted violent action now and the Community Organizer’s wanted to infiltrate every aspect of Government and lifestyle in the USA. The FBI Counter Intelligence Program Infiltrators (small in number) were successful in prevention of criminal violent acts. They never set a crime in motion but had to sound radical enough to remain welcome in a conspiracy in order to try and prevent the criminal act from taking place. In no way was entrapment techniques of encouragement used. This was Mr Hoovers FBI and by the book. Today with this rogue radical left revolutionary run Administration, and their Muslim Brotherhood Solidarity connection, They are working on a different level than the Old Hoover FBI.

      • linnte says

        Aug 9, 2016 at 3:36 pm

        This may explain the infiltration of Muslims in the USA Government, but why is it allowed and encouraged in Europe, Australia and Britain ? It’s a world problem, yes? Explain that and why ALL Governments are involved. And why now at such an alarming rate?

        • TR says

          Aug 9, 2016 at 3:55 pm

          Iinnte, The Governments in Europe had taken a swing to the liberal Left and the Political Correctness disease was spreading to where the word “Racist” was worst insult and no longer “Traitor” or references to someone’s mother. The World Governments had all been infiltrated by the Left and following along were their solidarity bond Muslim Brotherhood chums who touted the same accusations of Racist and now Islamophobia. Who would have ever thought who Governments would tuck their tales so quickly..

        • linnte says

          Aug 9, 2016 at 6:41 pm

          Agreed! It stinks!

      • TR says

        Aug 9, 2016 at 3:44 pm

        I would like to add, Today’s FBI, I am sure would like to be able to operate freely without interference from their Boss’ in the present Administration.while trying to do their job correctly. I would assume there are infiltrators within the FBI from opposition ideologies to what Mr Hoover Would not have liked to see. The Communists hated the FBI and swore they would destroy it someday back in the 1970’s. The largest threat to the security of our Constitutional Republic was the threat of communist influence and activity by the radical communist SDS and their Community Organizer network, Some of us were surprised, when we herd from young special agents all references were removed from the curriculum at the NA. They never heard of the SDS movement back in 2000. Who would have required such important material to be removed?.

  10. robm says

    Aug 9, 2016 at 10:53 am

    Who, what, blew up the car?..It was never mentioned

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 9, 2016 at 6:37 pm

      Rob, the police blew up the car from a safe distance, since it was feared it was rigged with explosives:

      “Garland shooting suspect Elton Simpson tied to previous terror probe, authorities say as search of Phoenix apartment continues”

      http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/garland-shooter-elton-simpson-tied-previous-terror-probe-article-1.2209345

      Authorities feared the dead gunmen had rigged up themselves or their car with explosives, so care was taken at the scene. Police used a controlled explosion to blow open the car’s trunk and several items, including luggage, inside.

      No bombs were found, Harn said…

  11. gravenimage says

    Aug 9, 2016 at 6:30 pm

    Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Did the FBI Goad Jihadis Into Attacking the Garland Muhammad Cartoon Contest?
    ……………….

    I think Jihadists were all to happy to attack those who dared draw cartoons of Muhammed on their own. But there *are* serious questions about how the FBI handled this.

  12. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 4:24 pm

    Re: “But is a rogue, “Islamophobic” FBI really badgering Muslims who would otherwise have been peaceful, law-abiding citizens until they finally snap and go jihadi?

    Only in the Left’s febrile fantasies.”

    Well, Robert, if you had asked that exact same question about Canada’s RCMP, the answer would have been (at least in the recently-exposed Nutall ‘radicalization’ case)
    “YES OF COURSE THEY WERE!”

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