Andy Ngo describes himself on Patreon as “… an independent journalist and photographer dedicated to covering topics related to protests, free expression, and Islam.” He has been a frequent target of bullying for the militant left, as well as by Muslim activists.
Last Saturday, while covering an un-permitted Antifa mob rally in Portland, Ngo faced the standard bullying while filming the event with his GoPro. As time went on, things escalated as members of the leftist mob struck him with milkshakes (some laced with concrete according to observers). Ultimately, violence erupted as Ngo, unarmed and unresisting, was beaten and kicked by masked members of the mob while trying to walk away.
The beastly behavior of such thugs, coupled with the callous insouciance of the Portland police and civic authorities who have allowed this barbarity free rein within their city, is unconscionable. No one can justify such unprovoked brutality.
Yet even as I write this, there are some proceeding to do just that.
Aymann Ismail is a staff writer for Slate.com. As a Muslim with a platform, he seeks to defend Islam in America, trying to humanize it and inculcate sympathy in the hearts of his readers. His progressive views are seen in his support for liberal causes and his opposition to those exposing both falsified hate crimes and the vacuous bogeyman known as “Islamophobia.” After learning of the Antifa-led attack on Andy Ngo, Ismail tweeted in response to a rather sane liberal woman who decried the alt-left violence:
In other words, Andy Ngo got what he deserved. Because he is an Islamophobe and unmasker of sham hate crimes, he has “helped create an atmosphere of violence that vulnerable people all have to live through just for being who they are.” What goes around comes around.
Except that Ngo uses words and video to expose the evil of those who wield lies and violence to manipulate others. He has never been accused of physical violence nor has he exhorted others to that end, much less to create an atmosphere of violence against Muslims or other “vulnerable people.” Antifa thugs, on the other hand, regularly create an atmosphere of violence at their mob events, and often resort to physical assault in cowardly fashion when their safety in numbers allows them to pummel lone protesters.
Ismail admits that the actions of the Antifa herd last Saturday were “bad”, but he justifies their battery against Ngo with the claim that “he’s guilty of worse.”
One wonders where Ismail may have come up with this logic. Those familiar with the Muslim mind steeped in the life and teachings of Muhammad don’t have far to look.
According to orthodox Muslim history, in January of 624, after less than two years in Medina, Muhammad tasked a group of thirteen followers to embark on a reconnaissance mission to Nakhla, on the main route between Mecca and Ta’if. Their orders were to watch the movements of Quraish caravans and report back to him. Since this was one of the sacred months during which by time-honored custom all fighting was prohibited in the Peninsula for pilgrims to travel freely to distant shrines, all caravans felt safe from marauders. One of the Muslim contingent had even shaved his head to give the false impression that this band of thirteen was also on pilgrimage. When a richly laden caravan passed through Nakhla and stopped for the night, the temptation for the Muslims was too strong to resist. In spite of prohibition against fighting, the raiding party decided to attack.
Surprising the Quraish traders during their meal preparations, the Muslims killed the caravan leader with an arrow and took two other Meccans captive. The fourth escaped and ultimately made it back home where he recounted this serious breach of peace. Meanwhile the Muslim party returned to Medina in high spirits, with their two captives and an impressive array of booty. They were prepared to hand over one-fifth of the haul to Muhammad (as Allah and Muhammad had mandated), but their prophet angrily refused to have anything to do with the treasure, infuriated that they had brought disrepute upon him and his movement by breaking the rules under which all other tribes lived faithfully. He declared, in protest of his innocence, “I did not instruct you to fight in the sacred month.”
The raiding party (and other Muslims in Medina) were demoralized by this state of affairs, realizing that they were guilty of a serious offense. Doom hung over the Muslim camp until a few days later when the prophet emerged from his dwelling with a new revelation from Allah. It became v. 217 of Surat al-Baqarah (chapter 2 of the Qur’an):
“(Muhammad), they ask you about fighting in the sacred month. Tell them that it is a great sin. However, creating an obstacle in the way of God, disbelief in Him and the Sacred Mosque, and driving away the neighbors of the Sacred Mosque is an even greater sin in the sight of God: Disbelief in God is worse than committing murder” (2:217, Sarwar translation).
Allah acknowledges that the Muslim raiding party has committed a great evil. But he goes on to say that, by comparison, the evil committed by the Quraish dwarfs that of the Muslims: the Quraish had been Muhammad’s tribe in Mecca, and were responsible for opposing him and his message and for preventing Muslims from free access to the sacred mosque (the Ka’aba) in Mecca. So, it’s true, Allah admits — his followers committed deception, murder, kidnapping and stealing. But the pagans of Mecca were guilty of much more heinous crimes — they were opposed to the spread of Islam, and refused to convert. Hence, “Disbelief in Allah is worse than committing murder.” As a result, Allah gives his Muslims a pass for their small infraction, but pledges that he will roast his enemies in unending flames for their resistance to the advancement of Islam. Enshrined in Allah’s immutable book we find, then, this warning to the non-Muslim world: If you stand against the expansion of Islam, then whatever evils my followers may inflict upon you will be justified, because your evil is staggeringly greater than anything they could do. If you oppose my religion, you will get what you deserve, no holds barred.
It’s not surprising, therefore, to see the same mentality at work in the words of Aymann Ismail.
Read the rest here.
mortimer says
The police will have to start using crowd-control agents against Antifa, such as teargas, skunk spray, indelible ink and other more painful agents. A squad of cops on horses would certainly stop any scuffles quickly. We saw cops did not go into it. Perhaps they were understaffed and couldn’t take the risk.
The cops should always prepare to be effective when the very fascist Antifa shows up. The time for looking the other way is over. We can expect Antifa to misbehave, because they are godless communists with no ethical standards and their members have almost no independent thought … the members are amateurish soldiers of communism.
gravenimage says
The police did *nothing* to stop this attack in Ngo.
mortimer says
Mateen Elass makes an excellent point which we all must master, namely, that Muslims consider VERBAL OPPOSITION TO ISLAM as a JUSTIFICATION FOR MURDER, since the kafir is at war (harbi) against Islam.
VERBALLY FIGHTING Islam is MORE SERIOUS and LESS FORGIVEABLE than actual military fighting according to Sharia law and usually gets a death sentence in Sharia.
From Sharia manual Reliance of the Traveller’ Chapter ‘O’ 11.10.05:
“The (DHIMMI) agreement is also violated (A: with respect to the offender alone) if the state has stipulated that any of the following things break it, and one of the subjects does so anyway, though if the state has not stipulated that these break the agreement, then they do not; namely, if one of the subject people:
-5- mentions something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam.”
Sharia proscribes the murder of anyone who verbally opposes Islam, since they are at war with Islam:
“There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim (harbi) at war with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593
Aymann Ismail is a professional liar, so he doesn’t admit to dirty kafirs his REAL doctrinal beliefs based on Sharia.
Aymann Ismail’s beliefs are too SHOCKING for him to actually put them in print, but no one will challenge him where he works because they are uninformed dupes and Pollyannish fools.
gravenimage says
+1
UNCLE VLADDI says
All criminals pretend to justify their crimes by saying their victims “triggered” them by hurting their feelings.
Argument from emotion is all they’ve got, since they can’t otherwise justify their “your stuff is my stuff!” claims.
Carol the 1st says
That sums it up pretty well.
Walter Sieruk says
Just the very idea of The “justification of evil” is a strong reminder of the old saying which is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.” Such evil and unconscionable actions of violence ,many times ,murderous violence., by Muslim terrorists who are members of jihad terror entities as Al Qaeda, Hezbollah Hamas and other like-minded Islamic terror organizations is worse than just a problem .It’s a deadly plague of heinous mayhem on civilized society.
This hideous attempt to “justify evil” is found in the Muslim belief in the Islamic doctrine of that is called “Muruna” The practice of that horrible and unethical doctrine of Muruna is engaged in by the jihadist/Muslim members of ISIS . As the following essay further explains .
One of the explanations as to how such totally unconscionable, ruthless, vicious actions and murderous are committed by the Muslim terrorists who compose the brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS is answer in the following . The jihadists of ISIS are engaging in the Islamic doctrine of “Muruna” which is the dogma of Islam that teaches committing evil for the greater good is a noble part of the jihad for Islam. This is, in essence, the same type of “philosophy” that the communists had gone by in the twentieth century. That it’s a “good thing “ to commit many evils to obtain a “worker’s paradise.” Likewise, during World War II even the Nazis had this line of thinking.” To express, as in to illustrate this idea, even more, is by using a twenty-first century movie. Near the end of this movie, just before the final defeat of the super-arch –villain General Zod , that super villain said “No matter how brutal and deadly I was I did it for the greater good.” That is the common mindset of many villains including those of ISIS..
CogitoErgoSum says
When your idea of “the greater good” is actually evil the end result is just more evil. Muhammad was unable to recognize evil even when it was staring him in the face and speaking directly to him. The Antifa fanatics are similarly deluded:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BkgumzHqiU
gravenimage says
David Wood is always excellent.
Walter Sieruk says
How about a totally different take on this subject of the Islam and the “justification of evil…” With Islam which has the god of Islam, Allah the “justification of evil “? This Justification”is not actually possible, when viewed from the information contained in the Qu ‘ran and also understood with the logic of reason.
This leads to the subject of the Quran based theology of the Islamic worldview that Allah’s had indeed sent that wickedness and cruel disaster on human beings .This means then the god of Islam, as if he really does is a destructive and malicious god. For the Quran teaches in Surah 57:22. “No misfortune [disaster] can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree [Quran ] before [in eternity ] We [Allah] bring it into existence: that is easy for Allah.” god, Allah, is guilty and the one to blame for extreme wickedness and mayhem .. What a cruel vicious, malicious god Allah must be. So Allah is than a very unloving malice –filled god.
The God of the Bible is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “ Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa on pages 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.” In conclusion the Islamic god, Allah, is not the God of the Bible.
The words in brackets are my own. In addition other some other books that expose this little known truths are WHO IS THIS ALLAH ? by G..J.O.. Moshay also UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner and THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey . There is also PHILISTINE by Ramon Bennett and ANSWERING JIHAD by Mabeel Qureshi
Angemon says
“It’s not surprising, therefore, to see the same mentality at work in the words of Aymann Ismail.”
Nor is it surprising to see the other end of the red-green alliance defending the same logic, albeit with a different justification – “words are violence therefore it’ is OK to attack someone saying something I don’t like”.
Lydia Church says
I know, right? It’s like…
A. Violence is bad and oppression is bad.
B. Your words are ‘violence.’
C. Therefore I get to beat you up!
(In self defense… of course!)
Or… you don’t agree with me, therefore I have the right to beat you up and even kill you.
Uh… not!
They may even murder someone and have no remorse, either way all the violence is 100% unjustifiable!
But…with all their reasonings of ‘he had it coming’ and ‘what he did was worse,’ just goes to show that in their minds, they are justified regardless of the facts. Good luck convincing those in this form of delusion! Sadly situations like this do lead to justified violence (like that invasion and attack against the nazi’s that I love to cite) when the other side simply won’t listen to reason and the evil advances. And there is a time for true revolution and this is not it of course. But to convince them of that? It all boils down to each side’s claim to be right, no one will give in, and the resulting violence is inevitable. In the case of Andy, the government should have called in the National Guard or something to defeat antifa… and use physical force if necessary… but nooooo….. it’s just ‘keep calm and carry on’ as usual. Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. And (yes, I’m going to harp on it again) in cases like that, the Crusades (in a self defensive measure against jihad and within invaded land of course, in general, not to support every move made) were justified! So ha!
Angemon says
+1
James Lincoln says
I had the pleasure of seeing John Fogerty play this song live when it first came out. He specifically pointed out that the song was not meant to be taken literally.
Still, lots of relevance regarding Islam / PC / Leftist-Marxism and the West.
And the importance of strong, smart leaders.
Gunslinger
John Fogerty
Lookin’ out ‘cross this town
Kinda makes me wonder how
All the things that made us great
Got left so far behind
This used to be a peaceful place
Decent folk’s, hard workin’ ways
Now they hide behind locked doors
Afraid to speak their mind
I think we need a gunslinger
Somebody tough to tame this town
I think we need a gunslinger
There’ll be justice all around
Someone let the fences go
Wild eyed bunch moved in, you know
Shootin’ up the streets, shoutin’ everybody down
The dogs all runnin’ loose
Wrecked the paper, closed the school
Tired old judge got roughed up too
No one left to make a stand
They whisper what’s the use
I think we need a gunslinger
Somebody tough to tame this town
I think we need a gunslinger
And there’ll be justice all around
I think we need a gunslinger
Somebody tough to tame this town
Think we need a gunslinger
And there’ll be justice all around
I think we need a gunslinger
Somebody tough to tame this town
I think we need a gunslinger
And there’ll be justice all around
gravenimage says
The Justification of Evil: Allah and Aymann Ismail
……………………..
Another Muslim apologist for brutal violence.