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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Relax: California Muslim with IEDs in Car Has ‘No Ties’ to Terror Orgs

Sep 27, 2018 10:25 am By Robert Spencer

Go back to sleep. Who doesn’t drive around with IEDs in the car? My latest in FrontPage:

If Saleh Ali hadn’t been pulled over by a traffic cop for having an expired vehicle registration, the consequences could have been explosive.

Lt. Adam Hawley of the Brea, California police department said: “During the traffic stop, the officer keyed in on a couple of suspicious items in the car he believed to be an explosive device. He detained the driver out of an abundance of caution, locked down a little bit of the area and called out sheriff’s bomb squad deputies.”

The bomb squad destroyed the IEDs, and Ali is being held at the Orange County Jail on $500,000 bail. According to the Orange County Register, he has been “charged with one count of transporting a destructive device and two counts of possessing a destructive device.”

But there is no need for anyone to be concerned. Hawley added: “At this point, we don’t have any evidence to support that he was part of any terrorist organization.”

Hawley did not address the possibility that Ali might have been looking for an opportunity to act upon the call that the Islamic State (ISIS) issued in September 2014:

So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him….

It is an ongoing source of frustration for people who are informed about the jihad threat that authorities in the West routinely claim that random acts of violence committed by Muslims are not actually incidences of terrorism at all. In claiming this, authorities are frequently motivated by a desire to minimize the terror threat in their own countries, particularly when those authorities are responsible for increasing that threat by pursuing reckless and irresponsible policies of mass Muslim migration.

Authorities might also discount terrorism in instances such as the case of Saleh Ali because they simply don’t understand the phenomenon. They assume that Islam is a religion of peace, because they have been constantly warned that they must believe this or be charged with “racism” and “Islamophobia.” Then on the basis of that assumption, they further assume that the only problem with terror in connection with Muslims are “extremist” groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS. If, therefore, Saleh Ali or others like him are not carrying al-Qaeda or ISIS membership cards, and their phone records don’t show them making multiple calls to Iraq or Syria, authorities assume that they have no connection to terrorism.

The idea that a Muslim such as Saleh Ali could read the Qur’an’s calls to “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89, 9:5) and perhaps come across the ISIS call for individual Muslims to commit random acts of violence, or a similar call from al-Qaeda or some other jihad group, and act upon it despite having no connection whatsoever with any terrorist group doesn’t enter their minds. Authorities don’t even allow this to enter their minds. If they did, they would have to admit that the problem of terrorism is far larger than they have admitted up to now, and that their entire approach to it has been wrongheaded. It’s far easier simply to tell the public that Saleh Ali has no ties to terrorist organizations, and go back to sleep. What could possibly go wrong?

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Filed Under: Featured, Jihad in the U.S., Robert Spencer, willful ignorance Tagged With: Adam Hawley, Brea, california, Saleh Ali


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  1. brane pilot says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 10:35 am

    If you are a Soldier of Islam engaged in violent jihad against the Infidel, you are simply crazy and will get better with treatment and quick release back into society to rejoin your peaceful religion.

    If you have a problem with Islamic jihadists, you are Islamophobic and a morally flawed individual beyond redemption.

    We live in an age of senselessness that even Franz Kafka or George Orwell could not make up.

    • J D S says

      Sep 28, 2018 at 12:08 pm

      “Don’t have any evidence”…..”Don’t want to offend”
      Things like this are exactly why Islam is reaching our cities and countryside without any obstruction and their book of hate, the KOran, alone, should be enough to validate Islam as a terrorist gtoup and make it illegal but “don’t have any evidence” and “Don’t want to offend” will be the downfall of America IF… those in power don’t do their job…Now not JUST those in power but all of us.

    • Charles says

      Sep 30, 2018 at 6:44 pm

      brane pilot: Are they telling me this picture of Saleh Ali is not one of Gregory Rasputin in colours ? sarc off.

  2. Don McKellar says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 10:52 am

    He owns a Koran and believes in it, word for word. And he has certainly heard of the glorious deeds of terror and violence by the warlord Muhammad character in the hadiths by his imam at mosque. Also, his fellow moslems provide ample examples for him in the news and are the most pious of any moslems as he can see judge for himself. Those are his ties.

  3. John Reynolds says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 11:38 am

    Every day more and more non-Muslims are taking the steps necessary to ensure that they can respond in the event of a Muslim attack.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Sep 27, 2018 at 2:42 pm

      You better believe it. Anyone who lives in the vicinity of a mosque and fails to take reasonable precautions is irresponsible. A baseball bat near your front and back doors is handy in the event of a home invasion. Women and girls should be encouraged to learn basic self defence techniques. In some cities, there are classes for the elderly in using a walking stick as a weapon. The reality is that, for many of us, survival will depend on how prepared we are for battle.

  4. Westman says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 3:13 pm

    Where is CAIR? Another embarassment for CAIR and the SPLC. They sell a false image and then the jihadis paint a Muslim wildman on it.

    Can’t fool all the people, all the time. The citizens are beginning to realize their “leaders” have become manipulative rulers. The image of Islam, in the US, is in decline and, likely, unrecoverable due to jihad.

  5. Guy Forester says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 3:41 pm

    Look up Ahmed Ressam and the 1999 New Year’s eve terror attack he planned but screwed up. Origin: Canada. Point of Entry: Port Angeles, WA, USA.

    How is it that prior to 9-11 and the subsequent Media and Government propaganda we were able to call terrorists, terrorists? Now, despite their willingness to admit to waging WAR against us, we refuse to admit this is true and to call it what it really is. This is a carefully planned and clearly articulated war against the West in General and the US and Israel specifically. The attackers may or may not be very capable, but that is irrelevant.

    Now, while we are under attack, the DC media circus goes on. All attention is diverted to something that may or may not have happened to drunk or maybe not drunk teens that were or were not at a party that may have, could have, or maybe not at all occurred at a place no one can remember on a date that cannot be ascertained AT ALL, not even the year.

    So, in case you were wondering, now you know why Americans will continue to die at home and abroad.

  6. gravenimage says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 11:27 pm

    Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Relax: California Muslim with IEDs in Car Has ‘No Ties’ to Terror Orgs
    ………………….

    More willful denial.

  7. John P says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 11:47 pm

    Where is this guy from? Is he an immigrant, like the Tsarnaevs or first generation terrorist like Major Hassan and Omar Mateen? If an immigrant, is he legal or illegal? If legal, what State Department officer issued him a visa?

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 29, 2018 at 12:11 am

      I haven’t been able to find any information about this at all.

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