Mohammed Alshamrani, the Pensacola Naval Air Station shooter, appears to have been “motivated,” in part, by an obsession with jihad against Israel. Just prior to the Dec. 7 attack, a threat was posted to Alshamrani’s alleged Twitter account: “You will not be safe until we live it as reality in pleastain [sic].” This was a reiteration of a threat against the United States made by Osama bin Laden in a January 2010 audio message over American support for Israel’s right to self-defense.
Although Alshamrani’s lethal attack did not directly target Jews or Israel, jihadi terrorism directed unequivocally at U.S. Jews, and their institutions, has been a continuous phenomenon since Sept. 11, 2001. Moreover, the scope of this ongoing threat has not been enumerated, while the canonical Islamic religious incitement animating it—and the resulting disproportionate 2.4-fold rate of extreme anti-Semitism within the U.S. Muslim community, i.e., 34 percent of Muslims vs. 14 percent of non-Muslims—are almost entirely ignored.
I recently documented six successful and 16 thwarted Muslim attacks specifically targeting U.S. Jews—typically accompanied by an open profession of an Islamic jihadist, anti-Semitic motivation—since the 9/11 jihad carnage. The six successful attacks resulted in eight deaths and seven serious injuries.
The following are summary descriptions of representative examples of two of the six lethal attacks and two of the sixteen thwarted ones.
• July 2002, Los Angeles Airport — Hesham Mohamed Ali Hedayat, an alleged member of Assad Eben Furat Mosque Association, whose mission was to “understand truly and apply Islamic law in the 20th century under any circumstances,” killed two Jews, Victoria Hen and Yaakov Aminov, at the El Al ticket counter, and wounded two others. Hedayat was slain during his murderous assault. When police investigators arrived at Hedayat’s apartment after the attack, “they found a note on the door saying, ‘Read the Koran.’” U.S. Justice Department investigators determined that “religious and political beliefs were the primary motivation for the attack.”
• July 2006; Seattle, Washington — Naveed Afzal Haq forcibly entered the Jewish Federation of Seattle, by taking a 13-year-old girl hostage. Once inside, he killed one woman and wounded five others, three seriously. Haq purchased weapons and ammunition, chose the Seattle Jewish Federation as his target, then drove over 200 miles from his home in Pasco, Washington, to Seattle, to carry out the attack. Before firing his weapon Haq announced, “I am a Muslim American, angry at Israel.” Upon surrendering to the police, Haq declared, “This is about the Jews and what they are doing.” He further stated in phone calls to his parents, “I got the Jews … They were enemies. I did it purposely. Now I’m going to heaven.”
• July 2005; Los Angeles and Orange County, California — Cell members of Jami’at Al-Islam Al-Sahih (JIS), “The Association of Authentic Islam,” a domestic jihad terrorist organization comprised of converts to Islam and established by Kevin James, aka “Shakyh Shahaab Murshid” (and multiple other Islamic aliases), was prevented from carrying out terrorist attacks against El Al, the Israeli consulate, and Los Angeles-area synagogues.
Their leader, James, “preached the duty of JIS members to target for violent attack any enemies of Islam or ‘infidels,’ including Jewish and non-Jewish supporters of Israel.” He also drafted a “JIS Protocol document,” which called for the “establishment of an Islamic caliphate in the U.S. that followed Islamic law.” JIS conducted surveillance, gathered weapons, and planned attacks on Los Angeles area synagogues to coincide with the Jewish high holidays, particularly Yom Kippur, thus potentially maximizing the number of Jewish victims.
• December 2018; Toledo, Ohio — Convert to Islam Damon Joseph, aka “Abdullah Ali Yusuf,” expressed a generalized hatred of non-Muslims, with an intense animus toward Jews. Joseph celebrated the October 2018 Tree of Life Pittsburgh synagogue carnage, and conveyed his own desire to “wage jihad” against Jews in Toledo, Ohio, preferably on a Sabbath, to cause more casualties.
Unrelenting in tempo, five potentially catastrophic attacks were prevented between August, 2018, and April, 2019.
The preaching of popular Irving, Texas, imam Omar Suleiman is pathognomonic of what fuels such incessant Jew-hatred among U.S. Muslims. Granted the privilege of delivering an opening prayer in the U.S. House of Representatives in May, Suleiman’s public “lecture series” validates the permanent, dehumanizing Koranic (5:60) epithet for Jews as “apes and pigs”—so-called “punishment” for their inveterate deceit—while demanding “humiliation,” of the state of Israel and all Jews who support its right to exist.
Andrew G. Bostom, M.D., M.S., is a Brown University academic physician who has been studying Islamic doctrine and history for the past 18 years. He is the author of the highly acclaimed books “The Legacy of Jihad,” “The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism,” “Sharia Versus Freedom,” “The Mufti’s Islamic Jew-Hatred,” and “Iran’s Final Solution For Israel.” He has published numerous articles and commentaries on Islam in the New York Post, Washington Times, The New York Daily News, Breitbart.com, National Review Online, The American Thinker, Pajamas Media, FrontPage Magazine.com, Arutz Sheva, and other print and online publications.
mortimer says
Another cogent article by Andrew Bostom. The anti-Semitic motive of terrorist Mohammed Alshamrani is undeniable.
I slightly disagree that the ‘incessant Jew-hatred among U.S. Muslims’ comes merely from the mullahs. I believe it is intrinsic to day-to-day life as a Muslim. The mullahs are reflecting the Jew-hatred that is already prevalent ‘on the ground’ in nearly every Muslim family.
If you know any Muslims at work, then I suggest that in a casual way, you bring the subject to the right of Israel to exist and then watch a supposedly ‘moderate’ Muslim turn into a jihadist.
Great Britain made a mess of the Jewish homeland by not going full-speed ahead with the project, thus giving the Arabs the impression that the entire homeland project was negotiable if the Arabs used enough terrorism.
mgoldberg says
‘if the arabs (muslims) used enough terrorism’, is precisely the lynchpin. When the west and others determined that there would be no distinctions of nation state, no distinctions attached to them; right and wrong, good and bad, better or worse, but merely ‘cultural differences’ misunderstood by bigotry and racism, then the ability to identify ‘terrorism’ was lost. Terrorism, is an action, or set of actions. That the specific kinds of actions described as terrorism are no longer specified, described, prevents identification and resolution of said terrorism. That ‘Jihad’ is a specific form of theologic doctrine that is historically ever apparent, that Jihad, is a specific set of beliefs of one religion that is determined to endlessly subjugate all other beliefs everywhere is not allowed to be identified as it is…. the source of the ‘terrorism.’
The means of identifying ‘it’ as a set of problems for nations, and peoples to face to diminish the damage of ‘terrorism’ and it’s adherents.
No… Jihad is not the only form of ‘terrorism’, but identifying it would give non muslims the ability to understand why they are targeted and serially murdered as if, they had no right to exist as they do… except as subjugated by ‘muslims’, by muslim ‘Jihadists’.
The mullahs may indeed be the cause of the propagation but then every imam and every Jihadist adherent indeed promulgates the selective agreement about subjugation either directly or indirectly of non believers.
elee says
Applause, particularly for your last paragraph. See K 8:12, 3:150 and others. Does not every Muslim aid and abet the imposition of terror on all kafirs, apostates, and particularly Jews? Are the chartering documents of this cult somehow ambiguous in the eyes of the world?
mortimer says
Much of the Jew-hatred coming from Muslims hangs its hat on the issue of the Jewish homeland in Israel. If the rest of the world had simply said: ‘Israel is the Jewish homeland … period’, then the Muslims would have dropped the topic, but the whole matter was kept hanging. I believe Pres. Trump is correct in simply grabbing the bull by the horns and declaring that Israel is the Jewish state in the Middle East and that it has an international mandate that needn’t be re-negotiated. If all countries followed the US and simply moved their embassies to Jerusalem, much of the haggling over a supposed separate Palestine would go away. The partition of Palestine was done unilaterally by the British Foreign and Colonial Office in the early 1920s. That’s the two-state solution.
Muslims think that terrorism will change the situation in Israel. If they know it won’t, they find another idiotic problem to fixate on as a motive for jihad !
FYI says
muslims don’t get this but they are going to be judged by a..JEW.
“We Jews know whom we worship because it is from the Jews that salvation comes”
Jesus Christ{Jew}
John 4 v 22
And so of course their “prophet” muhammed,a mass-murderer of Jews[Abu Dawud 4390}….is subject to being judged by a JEW.
James Lincoln says
FYI says,
“muslims don’t get this but they are going to be judged by a..JEW.”
Interesting point, I have never looked at it from that perspective…
elee says
Surely the author cant believe that Muslim anti-Semitism was invented in 2001. Its evil pervasive and spreading, but its been around since 632. Must we silently allow this to happen, a lifetime after the purported defeat and interment of Nazism?
Walter Sieruk says
The jihad –minded Muslim violence against American Jews has, indeed, been constant [before] as well as after September 11, 2001.
Furthermore, such awful strong vicious spiteful Muslim hate and violence against Jewish people and against the Jewish State of Israel are sanctioned in the “holy book” of Islam the Koran. Which instructs in violence and killing for the cause of Islam. As found in, for example, 4: 89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. In other words the Koran inspires and causes such hideous violence. Furthermore, another role the Koran has in such deadly Islamic terror attacks in the Jewish nation of Israel is that the Koran contains many negative about the Jewish people. The reason that the Koran reads as it does have much to do with the history of the founder and prophet of Islam, who is Muhammad. This is for a specific time period of his life Muhammad lived among many Jewish people and he liked them at first. Later then they would not accept his claim of being of prophet, Muhammad then took is dislike to them that then turned into bitterness and even hate for them. So in the hate and bitterness he spoke many derogatory things about the as even referring to them as “apes and swine.” Such word of bitterness and hate, along with other thing he said, where written down on things and then later after his death those words were together together and then eventually, in time went in the composition of the Koran. Therefore, that why the Koran reads and in does about the Jewish people, as in calling them descendants of “apes and swine.” As seen in the Koran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60.
Furthermore, as a Christian I can keyboard that there is a chance the Muhammad actually might had been a prophet but the important thing to understand is that Muhammad was NOT a prophet send by God. Instead, Muhammad was a deceptive, lying false prophet send by Satan to lead many people astray and even and straight into hell. Jesus, in fact, had predicted and warned of the coming of such men as Muhammad. For Jesus taught “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15. In addition, the Bible further warns that “many false prophets are gone out into the world.” First John 4:1. [K.J.V.]
gravenimage says
Muslim jihad against US Jews has been constant since 9/11
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Good article from Andrew Bostom.
And yes–as some posters have noted, murderous Islamic antisemitism predates 9/11, of course–as the knowledgeable Mr. Bostom obviously knows.
MJP says
No the worst enemies to Mankind are the barbaric, Demonic, Muslims