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Robert Spencer: Washington Post Publishes Muslim who Served Time for Terror-Related Charges

Feb 14, 2018 9:32 am By Robert Spencer

But would it ever publish a foe of jihad terror? Not on your life. My latest in FrontPage:

At least they admit it. The bio tag for this Washington Post article reads: “Ismail Royer is an American convert to Islam and a research and program associate at the Religious Freedom Institute, a D.C. nonprofit organization. He served 13 years in federal prison for terrorism-related charges. Since his release, he has worked in the nonprofit sector developing strategies to promote religious liberty and undermine extremist ideology.”

Which “extremist ideology”? Why not “…to promote religious liberty and undermine the jihad ideology”? Probably because what is meant by “extremist ideology” is “right-wing extremism,” a label often attached to resistance to jihad terror.

Interestingly, the Washington Post bio for Royer doesn’t note that before his incarceration, he worked for Hamas-linked CAIR.

Meanwhile, the title of the piece is “Muslims like me don’t have theological beef with evangelicals. It’s the prejudice against us that’s the problem.” Note that Royer is taking that ever-familiar stance we see again and again, on a drearily regular basis, from Muslim spokesmen: victimhood. Poor, poor Muslims are victimized by everyone else in 1000 ways — as the jihad body count rises ever higher. One would think that any man would be embarrassed to make his living as a professional whiner, but Islamic spokesmen seem to have a never-ending supply of chutzpah and no capacity for embarrassment at all.

And “Muslims like me”? What kind of Muslim is like Ismail Royer? Let’s review what the Post blandly reports as “13 years in federal prison for terrorism-related charges.” From the Investigative Project on Terrorism:

According to a biography posted on IslamOnline.net, Royer began working as a CAIR communication specialist in 1997. According to media reports, he continued to work for CAIR at least through the beginning of October 2001.

When police stopped Royer for a traffic violation in September 2001, they found in his automobile an AK-47-style rifle and 219 rounds of ammunition. He was indicted in June 2003, with 10 others, on a variety of charges stemming from participation in the ongoing jihad in Kashmir. Specifically, the indictment charged that Royer engaged in propaganda work for Lashkar-e-Taiba and “fired at Indian positions in Kashmir.”

Lashkar-e-Taiba was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization on December 26, 2001. Thus, while news reports indicated he still worked for CAIR, according to a federal indictment, Royer purchased an AK-47 assault rifle and 219 rounds of ammunition, distributed newsletters for a group later designated as a foreign terrorist organization, and fired at Indian targets in Kashmir.

Again, Awad has minimized CAIR’s ties to Royer, noting Royer was also “a former employee of Starbucks Coffee.”

In January 2007, in response to Senator Boxer’s withdrawal of the award to Elkarra, Awad claimed that “CAIR had no knowledge of Royer’s travels and activities before he joined CAIR.”

Additional charges listed in a superseding indictment against Royer and his 10 co-conspirators included conspiracy to levy war against the United States and conspiracy to provide material support to Al Qaeda.

On January 16, 2004, Royer pleaded guilty to weapons and explosives charges and agreed to cooperate fully with the government.

He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Royer got out early, of course, and now proclaims that he has rejected his previous “extremism.” And so the Washington Post publishes him as if he were a legitimate spokesmen for Muslims in the United States. This is all part of the normalization of Islamic supremacism, of a piece with politicians appearing at Hamas-linked CAIR events (as we have seen recently in Ohio and Illinois).

The Washington Post is trying to condition the public into thinking that someone who used to work for Hamas-linked CAIR and served time in prison for jihad plotting is a perfectly reasonable fellow, while the real “extremists” are the foes of jihad terror.

Can you imagine the Washington Post publishing an article by me or anyone else who is defamed by the hard-Left smear machine the Southern Poverty Law Center as an “anti-Muslim extremist”? They wouldn’t be caught dead. But a Muslim who worked for Hamas-linked CAIR and did propaganda work for a jihad terror work? Now, that’s someone who is perfectly within the bounds of reasonable discourse.

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  1. No Muzzies Here says

    Feb 14, 2018 at 9:39 am

    By publishing his article the Post shows that it is completely behind this Jihadi, and that it approves of his actions. The Post is as guilty as he is.

    • Emilie Green says

      Feb 14, 2018 at 10:58 am

      The whitewashing of Islam continues, but people do have a general sense that there’s something really disagreeable about Islam.

      We don’t know exactly how or what we’re going to do about this whitewashing (besides continuing to tell and spread the truth), but a general awareness of the unsavory nature of Islam is growing. And that’s a very good thing. Efforts by the WP, NYT are not having their intended effect.

      Here’s an example. Last Summer a billboard appeared with the title “The Perfect Man” on top, followed by a listing of six events in the life of this perfect man.

      The words Islam, Mohammad, or Muslim do not appear anywhere on the billboard.

      Yet everyone knew.

      https://www.google.com/search?q=perfect+man+billboard&client=firefox-b-1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjY6IeE26XZAhVohOAKHVFjAp0QsAQIOA&biw=1146&bih=953

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 14, 2018 at 9:50 am

    Royer’s arsenal of weaponry (during his time as a ‘COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST’ with CAIR proved that CAIR is not just a FRONT ORGANIZATION for terrorists… it is actually a real TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.

  3. mortimer says

    Feb 14, 2018 at 9:55 am

    The comparison that immediately comes to mind is that of Nazis who get out of jail and go back to promoting Nazism.

    Jihadists who go back to jihad-promotion (like Royer) have not been deprogrammed in jail… to the contrary, he has probably fine-tuned his performance and learned how to make the jihad more effective.

    Meanwhile, USEFUL, UNCRITICAL IDIOTS at Leftarded newspapers and news media continue to give an UNCHALLEDGED platform to those who hate our society and wish to destroy it.

    I doubt Washington Post has a single person who has read and studied the primary Islamic source texts, Sharia law and the canonical commentaries and who has even a passing knowledge of the MEANING, MOTIVE and METHODS of jihad.

    WaPo, THAT IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 14, 2018 at 9:58 am

    All ‘peaceful’ Muslims are participating in VERBAL JIHAD since 100% of ‘peaceful’ Muslims conceal, lie about and dissemble about the MEANING, MOTIVE and METHODS of jihad in order to keep the kufaar unenlightened about the intentions of the jihadists.

    ‘Peaceful’ Muslims are practicing jihad in their own way… through propaganda.

  5. Halal Bacon says

    Feb 14, 2018 at 10:08 am

    The left is so fawking stupid, the use of appeal to authority is blatant with islamist, council this, institute that, blah blah blah – unelected common purpose arseholes and Soros is the ringleader

  6. Terry Gain says

    Feb 14, 2018 at 10:29 am

    “Meanwhile, the title of the piece is “Muslims like me don’t have theological beef with evangelicals. It’s the prejudice against us that’s the problem.”

    —–

    My antipathy towards Islam is based on my knowledge of this evil ideology. Stop your insufferable whining and own the insanity of this despicable ideology.

    • JawsV says

      Feb 14, 2018 at 2:40 pm

      Yep, I definitely have antipathy towards Islam/Muslims. Since September 11, 2001.

  7. MFritz says

    Feb 14, 2018 at 1:07 pm

    It makes perfect sense for a heavily biased newspaper to hire someone heavily biased.

  8. Norger says

    Feb 14, 2018 at 1:25 pm

    Excellent point Robert. The WaPo and the rest of the MSM have become so blinded by identity politics that they have quite literally lost the ability to distinguish between good and evil.

  9. JawsV says

    Feb 14, 2018 at 2:37 pm

    “Peaceful Muslims” is a contradiction-in-terms.

  10. Prabh108 says

    Feb 14, 2018 at 2:47 pm

    May this enemy of India and Dharma featured in this article above never again return to Earth in any form, ever again.

    Really, this mlecch enemy of India in the above article must be hanged forthwith at Ayodhya, India.

    Avatar RamChandra di jai!

    And may the jihadist after-life bordello be permanently demolished through Tapasya (austerity) of Dharmic Sages.

    Off-topic – there was a commenter named “Sham” who used to post here – does Sham understand his name is short form for Shyamsundara – a name for Avatar Krsna who lived upon Earth about 5000 years ago?

    The only solution for jihadism is sterilization and or Ghar Wapsi offered by Dharmic Organizations such as Jan Sangh.

    pr108

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 14, 2018 at 7:12 pm

      Muslim troll Sham took his username from the Islamic term for Syria and the rest of the Levant–it had nothing to do with a reference to Hinduism.

  11. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Feb 14, 2018 at 2:51 pm

    ““Muslims like me don’t have theological beef with evangelicals. It’s the prejudice against us that’s the problem.””

    “It’s the kuffars and harbis fault when we kill them”

    • JawsV says

      Feb 14, 2018 at 3:12 pm

      Oh, the “prejudice” against Muslims. There’s a good reason(s) for that. I detest them and their evil BAD religion.

  12. CRUSADER says

    Feb 14, 2018 at 6:56 pm

    What is worthy of The W Post in 1971…1972….
    should be worthy of it now, in 2018….the same integrity should apply,
    and yet, Mr Bezos, does it? The spotlight on roaches should be swung either way!
    The W Post needn’t harbor those who aim against us, ultimately….

  13. mach37 says

    Feb 15, 2018 at 6:30 am

    Well, that seals it! If a Muslims uses the expression “Religious Freedom” either in speech or in his writing, that automatically makes him peaceful, and Islam a peaceful religion – in the eyes of the Establishment Media. When are the scales going to fall off the eyes of the WaPo, the NYT, and the like?

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