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Robert Spencer: Yes, It Really Is All About Islam

Aug 3, 2017 9:01 am By Robert Spencer

My latest in the Geller Report:

Two news items this week show us once again what the establishment media and almost all political authorities in the free world are determined to deny: jihad terrorism really is all about Islam.

The first was in Australia, from which the Daily Mail Australia reported Saturday that “about 40 heavily-armed police stormed a Surry Hills home at 4pm before raiding properties in Lakemba, Punchbowl and Wiley Park in Sydney’s west. An Islamist cell is accused of planning to bring down a domestic flight with an ‘explosive device’ discovered at the Cleveland Street home.”

Neighbors of the four Muslims who were arrested professed to be shocked. One told reporters that the arrested men were “perfectly nice and normal people. We knew them to say hello to and they seemed nice.”

They probably were nice and normal. They just believed in jihad against the Infidel. Nowhere are non-Muslim governments taking that possibility into account. Australian authorities, like authorities all over the West, are indefatigably committed to the idea that Islam is a Religion of Peace, and that every last Muslim in the West is a loyal citizen who is committed to a pluralistic society and abhors jihad terror.

And if the neighbors of these Muslims in the West express the slightest doubt as to these Muslims’ abhorrence of jihad terror, they will be brought up on “Islamophobia” and “hate speech” charges and fined or jailed. Non-Muslims better assume their Muslim neighbors are “nice and normal,” or else.

Meanwhile, these “nice and normal” Muslim neighbors were plotting to bomb a commercial airliner in the name of Islam and jihad, hoping to kill hundreds and destroy the lives of countless others.

Why? Because they believed in the Qur’an and Sunnah, and in the imperatives contained in both to wage jihad against unbelievers. Islam, and only Islam, explains what would transform “nice and normal” neighbors into mass murderers. From an Islamic standpoint, there is nothing that isn’t “nice and normal” about jihad mass murder.

The second news item comes from Germany, where, according to the Associated Press, “a Palestinian man who allegedly stabbed one person to death and wounded six others in Hamburg was known to authorities as a suspected Islamic radical but is also psychologically unstable.”

As is always the case with instances such as this one, we’re told that “the man’s motive remained unclear.” However, he was screaming “Allahu akbar” as he stabbed the shoppers, and according to AP, “a friend had tipped authorities off to changes in the man, telling them that he stopped drinking alcohol and started talking about the Quran, said Torsten Voss, head of the Hamburg branch of the domestic intelligence agency.”

He “stopped drinking alcohol and started talking about the Quran.”

Before Barack Obama in 2011 ordered the scrubbing of counter-terror training materials of all mention of Islam and jihad, this would have been taken as a possible sign that a Muslim could potentially become a jihad terrorist. On October 19, 2011, Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates wrote a letter to John Brennan, who was then the Assistant to the President on National Security for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism. The letter was signed not just by Khera, but by the leaders of virtually all the significant Islamic groups in the United States, including CAIR, ISNA, MAS, ICNA, and MPAC.

The letter denounced what it characterized as U.S. government agencies’ “use of biased, false and highly offensive training materials about Muslims and Islam.” Khera stated:

A 2006 FBI intelligence report stating that individuals who convert to Islam are on the path to becoming “Homegrown Islamic Extremists,” if they exhibit any of the following behavior:

  • “Wearing traditional Muslim attire”

  • “Growing facial hair”

  • “Frequent attendance at a mosque or a prayer group”

  • “Travel to a Muslim country”

  • “Increased activity in a pro-Muslim social group or political cause”

But the FBI intelligence report Khera purported to be describing didn’t actually say that converts to Islam were necessarily “on the path” to becoming “extremists” if they wore traditional Muslim attire, grew facial hair, and frequently attended a mosque; it simply included these behaviors among a list of fourteen indicators to “identify an individual going through the radicalization process.” Others included “travel without obvious source of funds’; “suspicious purchases of bomb making paraphernalia or weapons”; “large transfer of funds, from or to overseas”; and “formation of operational cells.” Khera selectively quoted and misrepresented the list to give the impression that the FBI was saying that devout observance of Islam led inevitably and in every case to “extremism.”

In any case, all that was swept away. It became “Islamophobic” to take a newfound interest in Islam as any indication that an individual was on a path to jihad. And so the Hamburg supermarket attacker was free to stab people at will, because German authorities wouldn’t have dreamed of doing something so “Islamophobic” as placing him under surveillance because he stopped drinking alcohol and started talking about the Qur’an (and was already known to them as an “Islamist”).

Yet the Hamburg attack and the Sydney plot both demonstrate yet again that all this really is all about Islam, and unless and until law enforcement officials begin to take that into account, a great many more people are going to die.

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  1. common sense says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 9:24 am

    Robert Spencer is interviewed on 560 am bay area conservative news talk this morning about “Infidels guide to free speech’.
    Great to hear, a lot of people will hear this on a real news channel.
    Robert you are a warrior thanks for your tireless efforts.

  2. c matt says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 9:35 am

    Khera selectively quoted and misrepresented the list to give the impression that the FBI was saying that devout observance of Islam led inevitably and in every case to “extremism.”

    But devout observance of Islam does lead inevitably and in every case to extremism; otherwise, you would not be devout.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 3, 2017 at 9:39 am

      Farhana Khera complained about any comment about Muslims or Islam that came from the perspective of an outsider.

      Under Sharia law, a kafir should not express any opinion about Muslims or Islam. To say anything ‘impermissible’ (a wide category of interpretation) breaks the dhimmi contract, resulting in the loss of the protected status of the kafir and loss of the life and property of the kafir.

  3. mortimer says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 9:35 am

    Quote: …the arrested men were “perfectly nice and normal people. We knew them to say hello to and they seemed nice.” Yes, but they believed in the MASTER RELIGION THEORY.

    Yes, and Hitler’s henchmen were also “perfectly nice and normal people” when you met them a cocktail party, but they all believed in the MASTER RACE THEORY.

    “IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID !”

  4. Budvarakbar says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 9:47 am

    Ever notice how all these “nice and normal” never include any mention of whether the quote is Muslim?

    • Budvarakbar says

      Aug 3, 2017 at 9:48 am

      Corrected version:
      Ever notice how all these “nice and normal” quotes never include any mention of whether the quotee is Muslim?

  5. Jaladhi says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 10:14 am

    Muslim neighbors might be “nice and norma” but jihad always resides in their heart. They will do anything for the call of jihad to please their barbaric demonic leader Mo/allah!

  6. John Hawk says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 10:31 am

    So “nice and normal.” So was Ted Bundy, a serial killer who was introduced to “Old Sparky,” the Florida electric chair.

  7. andra says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 11:03 am

    … unless and until law enforcement officials begin to take that into account, a great many more people are going to die.
    —————————-
    Everyone with a Little brain left knows that this statement is simple truth. But the Western authorities don´t care. They don´t care for their countries, they don´t care for their cultures and the even don´t care for human life.

  8. peter hinks says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 12:34 pm

    we need more like the Donald trump,and less career politicians.and lets not forget the A holes,the civil service.

  9. stan lee says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    When they are neighbors to non-Muslims, which is bound to not be unusual in a democratic country, they will be “nice and normal” and will carry such an act with patient consistency for as long as necessary. They are disciplined in that they understand that their actions are the means to the end they seek. Those means sought by them are explained in the koran, and have today been addressed here in this article leading to reader comments. The information cannot be denied, the mission against non-Muslims has never wavered in 14 centuries of directives in the koran. literally for as long as Islam has existed.
    It is obvious that Islam targets the nature of Christian or Judeo-Christian doctrine followers. Islam understood that it could achieve its missions because Christians or Judeo-Christians would take the time to seek peace with Muslims, while Muslims would then be free to scheme the demise of the Christians/Judeo-Christians when the time would be convenient for Islam to strike. If that time was either the present or a decade in the future, Muslims were prepared to bide their time if necessary. And, they have been doing exactly that by putting on the act that they are “the religion of peace.” Those who choose to buy into “The religion of peace” will die awaiting that peace and “turning the other cheek.”
    To not “Turn the other cheek is to contradict the teachings many of us have lived by, and Islam must consider that characteristic to be a gift to Islam’s mission. If we choose not to adjust, we play into Islam’s 1400 year strategy, because they, Islam, won’t modify its mission. Islam’s mission is conquest and it has never changed in those fourteen centuries.

  10. Darryl Kerney says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 8:05 pm

    Perhaps it may help to point it out in this way, in nearly all the terrorist attacks in recent years, of which there have been many, there is ONE COMMON DENOMINATOR:
    islam.
    when i put it that way today, my friend (and coworker who is very intelligent and tends to look for the counter argument, or another explanation, which is what we both always do when troubleshooting at work) could find none to that statement, and simply had to agree. it seemed to me that it sunk in and put all of what i’ve been telling him about from my reading, using a simple mathematical principle, i think, can help put it into focus more clearly than statistics etc, the “lowest common denominator” should be something everyone understands, and realizes is indisputable, as a fact of nature, as a Law of Mathematics, if that doesn’t drive the point home, maybe nothing can with some people.

  11. b.a. freeman says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 9:04 pm

    it is not possible that all these “leaders” have failed to look at islam. they can be divided into two groups: the more numerous consists of those who have no experience with critical thinking, because their leftist indoctrination deliberately skipped it, and a far smaller fraternity consisting of hard-core leftists who discovered that they could wage war on free western republics by proxy with islamic troops who seek death while waging the war. the former are untrained naifs, so it is difficult for me to throw rocks at them, because i was just like them a few years ago; the latter, however, are cold-hearted murderers with the blood of thousands on their hands. remember them once it is no longer possible to live unmolested by civil war and murderous violence.

  12. gravenimage says

    Aug 3, 2017 at 10:05 pm

    Robert Spencer: Yes, It Really Is All About Islam
    ………………….

    Fine piece.

  13. Thomaspj Poovathinkal says

    Aug 4, 2017 at 6:25 am

    THE WHOLE OF CHRISTIAN WORLD may think, plan and even plot but it will all BE like eunuchs making a TRY at begetting, for they DO NOT GO ABOUT IT by taking COUNSEL from THE LORD OF LORDS and HIS HOLY SPIRIT. This, ONLY true APOSTLES of The Lord can DO, as we have them in THE DIVINE and THE SEHION Retreat Centres (Kerala, INDIA) and in their BRANCHES : SOME OF The Branches of THE DIVINE : USA :

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  14. Cameron says

    Aug 4, 2017 at 8:55 am

    Islam may not always lead to terrorism, but it regularly leads towards the following unpleasantries and intolerances to the point of violence and intimidation:

    Ablutophobia – Fear of washing or bathing
    Atheophobia – Fear of atheism and atheists
    Catagelophobia – Fear of being ridiculed
    Chorophobia – Fear of dancing
    Cynophobia – Fear of dogs
    Dikephobia – Fear of justice
    Eleutherophobia – Fear of freedom
    Enosiophobia – Fear of criticism
    Epistemphobia – Fear of knowledge
    Gnosiophobia – Fear of knowledge
    Gynophobia – Fear of women
    Hedonophobia – Fear of feeling pleasure
    Hereiophobia – Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation
    Homophobia – Fear of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual
    Ideophobia – Fear of ideas
    Katagelophobia – Fear of ridicule
    Melophobia – Fear of hatred or music.
    Methyphobia – Fear of alcohol
    Monophobia – Fear of menstruation
    Oenophobia – Fear of wines
    Paraphobia – Fear of sexual perversion
    Peccatophobia – Fear of sinning (imaginary crime)
    Philosophobia – Fear of philosophy
    Phronemophobia – Fear of thinking
    Potophobia – Fear of alcohol
    Swinophobia – Fear of pigs

    • Charles S says

      Aug 4, 2017 at 11:18 am

      That’s very, very good!

      Explains why so many muslims are so easily triggered!

  15. TruthWFree says

    Aug 5, 2017 at 9:45 am

    “Stopped drinking alcohol and started talking about the Quran”. No question he got the evil Satanic spirit of Islam’s allah god (AKA Satan), and decided to follow Satan’s directives in the Quran.After all my studies on Islam after 9/11/2001 and reading many of Robert’s books and other sources especially those leaving Islam at the risk of death, I have come to the conclusion that Satan is the being that appeared to Muhammad in the cave in 610 AD. If Muhammad made it all up, he would get the award for being the greatest liar in History. The Quran is a recipe for eternal fighting and killing among mankind: a curse on mankind. SATAN should be well pleased with his religion.

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