On the anniversary of the jihad massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Scott Simpson writes in the Advocate that the event brought Muslims and gays together, united as victims against the forces of hatred and bigotry that Donald Trump represents.
Think about the intellectual contortions it took to get there. A Muslim gunned down 49 people and wounded another 53 at a gay nightclub in the name of Allah and Islam, and a gay leader writes in a gay magazine that the massacre has united people who hold the same beliefs as the killer with people who share the orientation of his victims — against a man who has vowed to take steps to prevent such massacres from happening again.
Simpson bases these gymnastics on the idea that both Muslims and gays are routinely brutalized by thuggish Trump-supporting louts: “Across the country, American Muslims girded themselves for what has become a terrifying but familiar backlash against them. When anyone with a Muslim-sounding name makes headlines for a crime or an attack, the entire Muslim community is usually blamed. Vandals opened fire on a Texas mosque and Muslim men were beaten or shot in Orlando, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Minnesota….Anti-Muslim violence has surged under the rhetoric of the Trump campaign, making 2016 the most brutal year for American Muslims since the backlash following 9/11.”
In light of the high incidence of fake anti-Muslim hate crimes, these reports have to be greeted with skepticism, but to be sure, no attack on any innocent person, Muslim or non-Muslim, is ever justified. The question is whether this “lasting partnership” is likely to prevent Muslims in the U.S. from brutalizing gays in the future, and whether it is really prudent to act as if Orlando was a one-off. After all, there have been other incidents. On January 1, 2014, during the New Year’s celebrations at Seattle’s gay nightclub Neighbours, a Muslim named Musab Mohamed Masmari poured gasoline on a flight of stairs and then set it alight. The fact that the perpetrator was a Muslim was given only glancing notice in establishment media accounts, but the possibility that this was an early attempt at enforcement in the U.S. of the Sharia death sentence for gays could not be ruled out. Masmari was unsuccessful: despite his attempt to maximize the carnage by setting his fire on the stairs, no one was hurt.
Five months later, on June 1, 2014, a Muslim in Seattle named Ali Muhammad Brown went on a gay dating app and made a date to meet two gay men, Dwone Anderson-Young and Ahmed Said, at a Seattle gay nightclub. When the pair arrived, Brown gunned them down; then he fled to New Jersey and killed again. Finally apprehended, Brown explained that his murders were revenge for American military actions in Muslim countries: “My mission is my mission between me and my Lord. That’s it. My mission is vengeance, for the lives, millions of lives are lost every day. All these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life.” This was Qur’anic justice: “And We ordained for them therein a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and for wounds is legal retribution.” (5:45)
There have also been threats of more. In April 2017, two converts to Islam who lived in Illinois, Joseph D. Jones and Edward Schimenti, were arrested on federal terrorism charges. They had gone to Illinois Beach State Park in Zion, Illinois with an Islamic State flag and posed for photos there while holding it, to the alarm of passersby, and turned out to be trying to aid, and even join, the Islamic State. In the course of the investigation of the two men, it came to light that Schimenti had threatened a gay man with Sharia punishments, telling him that once Islamic law came to the United States, “We are putting you (homosexuals) on top of Sears Tower (now the Willis Tower) and we drop you.”
And in April 2016, Dr. Farrokh Sekaleshfar spoke at the Husseini Islamic Center in Sanford, Florida, about a half-hour’s drive from the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando. Sekaleshfar spoke at the University of Michigan in 2013 and called for homosexuals to be put to death, but emphasized that the killing must be done in a compassionate fashion, “because the sinner is Allah’s creation. You could never hate Allah’s creation.” He claimed that the death penalty for homosexuality was an act of love, because it secured the victim a place in Paradise: “We see the physical killing as something brutal, and this is the point when human hatred toward the act has to be done out of love. You have to be happy for that person … we believe in an afterlife, we believe in an eternal life … and with this sentence, you will be forgiven and you won’t be accountable in the hereafter….It’s for his own betterment that he leaves. We have to have that compassion for people. With homosexuals, it’s the same. Out of compassion, let’s get rid of them now.” This was preached not in Medina, but in Michigan.
So: a “lasting partnership”? Maybe not so much.
“How Pulse Forged a Lasting Partnership Between Muslims and LGBTs,” by Scott Simpson, Advocate, June 12, 2017:
On June 11, 2016, my husband and I took to our annual tradition of riding our motorcycle in D.C.’s pride parade. We felt safe in our community, safe in our pride. The next night, 49 people were slaughtered as they danced at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
In the hours following the massacre, heartbreaking social media posts and text conversations of the victims’ final moments began to tell the stories of what happened in their own words. Most were young, most were Latino, and not one of them deserved such a brutal and premature death.
Eddie Jamaldroy Justice’s final text messages to his mother still bring me to tears: “Mommy I love you. In club they shooting.”
Ultimately, 49 people were killed and 53 were wounded. But they were only the first victims of Omar Mateen’s rampage.
Across the country, American Muslims girded themselves for what has become a terrifying but familiar backlash against them. When anyone with a Muslim-sounding name makes headlines for a crime or an attack, the entire Muslim community is usually blamed. Vandals opened fire on a Texas mosque and Muslim men were beaten or shot in Orlando, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Minnesota.
My husband and I had felt so safe and so free the day before, revving our engines in front of tens of thousands of LGBTQ folks and our allies. That sense of safety was halted by this frightening reminder that there are those in the world who would prefer us dead.
That’s the same feeling that many American Muslims must feel every single day. Anti-Muslim violence has surged under the rhetoric of the Trump campaign, making 2016 the most brutal year for American Muslims since the backlash following 9/11….
Will says
Some gay men would sleep with the devil so desperate to satisfy their lust for dangerous sex ……
gravenimage says
This is silly. Lots of fools are in denial over the threat of Islam, and not because they want to sleep with Jihadists.
Mike says
True . In many gay’s mind , thugs are real men , they are viril. Idem for jihadists with their beards, their arms that make them fearless of anything, their war camouflage suits, driving Toyota trucks in the desert and have a dominant – domine relationship with women.
Many gays come from family where dominant-domine relationship was the only relation mode. Adults , they search for such relationships. Like many beaten wifes do .Used to be submit , search for submission. Islam , but not only thsi religion, Mormon , Jehovah , Amish are on the same mode.
gravenimage says
Mike, your idea that hordes of gay people are seeking out Jihadists to have relationships with simply does not hold water.
And while I may not agree with them on every point, the Amish. Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Mormons are *not* slaughtering unbelievers, as are followers of Islam.
john spielman says
yup according to islam, the LGBTQ crowd will be ” loved” to DEATH as Robert Spencer quotes Dr Farrokh Sekaleshfar that homosexuals must be killed but in “love”
amazing how delusional and naive Scott simpson, the writer of this piece of crap, is about islam
TL says
The title of Scott Simpson’s article is very misleading. Pulse Orlando was opened more than 10 years before the attack, but during all that time it had done just about nothing to form a partnership between Muslims and the Gay Mafia. Then one evening a Muslim named Omar, like the second Rashidun caliph, showed up with guns and ammo and a plan to use them. He could have chosen any of a number of nightclubs for homosexuals. It just happened to be Pulse. So a little honesty on the part of Scott and the Advocate would have inspired a rather different title, e.g.:
How A Muslim at Pulse Orlando Forged a Lasting Partnership Between Muslims and LGBTs
Norger says
Incredibly delusional.
revereridesagain says
The Left and Islam are so compatible in their lust for power and hatred of the individual that it should be no surprise that elements of the LBGTQblahblahblah “community” and practicing Muslims should band together against everything normal in the kafir world. Sick, but not surprising. Many other gays, however, quietly see the Muslim ranting about “compassion” and “the afterlife” for what it is, coverup for hatred and superstition. As for Mr. Simpson, yeah a lot of us know that feeling of so many people wanting us dead. We’re called Trump voters. And unlike your little Muslim friends, we are not calling for you to be thrown off buildings.
Karl S says
What a partnership….
The jihadis bring the weapons….
The LBGTQs are the targets.
Wake up to the real threat… Western Europe is almost lost… please not here!
gravenimage says
Spot on, Karl.
Jayke says
Here is a C-SPAN video of Sharifa Alkhateeb stating what the goal of all Mohammedans in America should be:
https://goo.gl/1zNev0
I wonder what she said in Arabic at the start. Can someone translate?
John A. Marre says
They didn’t waste much time to get to this point. Gays were marching in the streets after this massacre with banners that blamed the murders on Republicans!
They will lie to themselves so they don’t have to face the reality that Muslims hate gays and kill them.
Trump tried to reduce the number of Muslims coming into this country. The left blocked that, with the obvious outcome that they will blame Trump for the next time that Muslims murder innocent people.
Lon Spector says
They will be brought together only as long as it takes the Muslim to truss them up in chains
and toss them off rooftops.
waterdog says
Muslims kill 49 people and then become the victims. Only according to the liberal American media.
notmoron says
That is why I’m not longer having tears in my eyes
Dum Spiro says
Lasting partnership? Really?
How soon they forget.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlqXgXwzkPg
We should want to always seek the truth and keep it ever in mind…
— Spero
mccode says
This would be as bizarre and disingenuous as trying to make the claim that the Holocaust brought Jews and Nazis together with a new sense of shared purpose and respect for one another.
I am astounded when I read what utter lies are allowed to be published for the gullible masses to digest and accept as truth.
Julius O'Malley says
Who can remember Rabbi Schmuly Wasserstein writing in the Berlin Jewish Chronicle on December 11th 1938 how Kristallnacht a month earlier had bonded Germany’s Jewish community with the National Socialists? Me neither.
Walter Sieruk says
About terrorist who murdered all those people in the city of Orlando who were at that gay nightclub. There have been a number of apologists for Islam who have said that the gay nightclub shooter wasn’t a true Muslim because he might, himself ,had some homosexual tendencies .This was not proven but there was a chance that he might had had some homosexual tendencies. Nevertheless, even if that claim is true that murderous shooter still could have been a real Muslim who was engaging in the jihad for his religion.
The reason for this is that Islam teaches when a jihadist /Muslim dies fighting for the cause of Islam then all his sins ,including homosexuality , will be wiped clean and then he will be allowed to enter into his very own “Islamic paradise.” Therefore , that mass murderer that gay nightclub was genuine Muslim.
gravenimage says
The only “evidence” for Mateen having had homosexual tendencies were the words of a single acquaintance and the fact that he went to Pulse Nightclub once to case the place. Family and friends have adamantly declared that he was *not* gay.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Remember, Islam allows deception and lying to advance Islam.
gravenimage says
Very true, Donald.
mortimer says
Marxists first CREATED then hijacked the LGTB ‘movement’ and turned it into a Marxist front group, thereby co-opting and attempting to BRAINWASH any person of LGTB persuasion who might otherwise have conservative or patriotic ideas.
The Marxist LGTB ‘movement’ is just that a POLITICAL PRESSURE GROUP that supports every TROTSKYIST CAUSE, including the EXTERMINATION OF ISRAEL.
The Pulse nightclub jihad massacre CONTRADICTS the Marxist narrative that Muslims are all victims.
SUPREMACIST, HOMOPHOBIC ISLAM is the PERPETRATOR, not the victim.
Benedict says
The LGBT community and the feminists are demographically preparing the way for a Muslim takeover, so it is totally inconsistent with the goal of Muslims to kill anyone from these groups. Muslims should deceitfully support and cooperate with them.
Maybe that is slowly dawning upon them?
gravenimage says
Muslims hate and murder women and gay people. Hadn’t you noticed that?
Also, the idea that all women and gay people want to live under Shari’ah is a very strange one.
David says
Liberals have to be literally insane to come up with logic like this.
John W. says
“That sense of safety was halted by this frightening reminder that there are those in the world who would prefer us dead.”
And who might that be? Do countries with Christianity or other non Islamic religions as their primary one have death penalties for gays? Do Christians or Buddhists throw people off roofs? What countries might have those kinds of penalties? Would the author like to go live there openly with his lover?
I’m no fan of gay relationships and as a hetero I don’t get it, but they have a right to live.
Pigs be Upon Him says
well, gays and muslims both like strap-on’s
Kakodaemon says
One goes bbbzzzzzz and the other goes boom!
David says
Muslims do not do partnerships. Ask their wives. Being gay and courting muslim partners will take the gays to new heights.
Norger says
Sardonically funny & true.
I guess Mr. Simpson missed the Imam who spoke at a mosque in Orlando shortly before the nightclub shootings, who said that “death is the sentence” for gays, that gays should be killed out of “compassion.” But “right wingers” are the real threat.
I guess you just can’t stop stupid.
scherado says
Seattle 2014: //…a Muslim named Musab Mohamed Masmari poured gasoline on a flight of stairs and then set it alight. //
i NEVER heard about this incident. This sounds like it could have been very bad.
gravenimage says
Here’s the story, scherado:
“Seattle: JTTF investigates as Muslim is arrested for arson attack on gay nightclub”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/seattle-muslim-arrested-for-arson-attack-on-gay-nightclub
I hope you have changed your mind about willful denial being the best approach to dealing with the Jihad threat.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Both groups, Islamics and Sodomites promote deviant behaviors. Of course the sodomites should take the time to learn some real facts about what Islamics will do them when the have the opportunity.
gravenimage says
“Sodomites” are not slaughtering straight people; Muslims *are* slaughtering non-believers.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Which is part of my point. This is why boys who have been sodomized all of the lives by Islamic men kill the boys when they get older since they have the behavior imprinted on them as being normal. And when they want to engage in sodomy with other older boys the Islamic men don’t like it. It is a vicious cycle involving behavioral imprinting (i.e. Pavlov’s dog) scenarios. Both are related to behavior and the consequences of behavior.
Lydia says
Just when it can’t get any crazier…
it just got crazier!
And the craziest thing of all is that all of them will unite
in one accord against the peaceful Christians like me
for not ‘agreeing’ with their beliefs.
While putting us to death, they will call us ‘intolerant.’
The ironies never end.
Boston Tea Party says
I remember in high school and college, studying the rise of Nazi Germany, and thinking “wow, how could everyone have been so stupid, not to see what was coming from the Nazis?”
Now, I no longer wonder. In fact, given the horrors of WWI, and the political savvy of the Nazis (they never SAID they wanted to kill all the Jews), it was much more understandable for the Western public and governments to underestimate the threat of Nazi Germany back then. We are currently living in an age much, much more blind and stupid than the 1930’s. How is it a mystery as to what Islam is all about? They tell us every day!!
Even the most naive appeasers of the 1930’s, like Neville Chamberlain, didn’t actually PRAISE the Nazi movement, or attack anyone who criticized the Nazis. Neville Chamberlain didn’t advocate importing millions of devout Nazis to Britain, and denouncing anyone who opposed his plan as “Naziphobes”, for Pete’s sake!
We are living in an age of utter insanity.
gravenimage says
Boston Tea Party, the actually were some who praised the Fascists as being “modern”, and suggested the free West adopt it.
History repeats…
Matthieu Baudin says
Truly Delusional.
Stuart Browning says
I’ve identified as homosexual for over 52 years.
I’ve never had an opportunity to vote for any spokesperson for the LGBT ( add the rest of the alphabet ).
This and many extreem left lunitics do not represent me or the great majority of non Straight people.
They have their own extreem left political agenda.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Stuart. I have some friends who are Gay and Islamo-savvy, as well.
scott says
Satan’s ways really ARE alive and well, with deception as the tool.
gravenimage says
Advocate: Pulse nightclub jihad massacre “forged a lasting partnership between Muslims and LGBTs”
…………………………..
Only if you believe there is a “partnership” between murderers and their victims…
Valkyrie Ziege says
; When did being used to further the advancements of a bronze-age mentality that murders homosexuals, or anyone else that isn’t worshiping the same imaginary friend in the sky, become a “partnership”?