*THREAD*
Last night, on the @MehdiHasanShow, I gave my top 5 reasons why I believe the far right domestic terror threat is more dangerous than even Al Qaeda after 9/11.At number 5:
Al Qaeda didn’t have cable news channels endorsing its world view.pic.twitter.com/wwL185HVuM
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) January 16, 2021
This is a good example of the Left’s propaganda offensive to portray all support of Trump and all dissent from its agenda as dangerous terrorism that must be silenced and even criminalized. Here is the text of NBC’s Mehdi Hasan’s Twitter thread claiming that “the far right domestic terror threat is more dangerous than even Al Qaeda after 9/11”:
Last night, on the @MehdiHasanShow, I gave my top 5 reasons why I believe the far right domestic terror threat is more dangerous than even Al Qaeda after 9/11.
At number 5:
Al Qaeda didn’t have cable news channels endorsing its world view.
At number 4:
Al Qaeda didn’t have the president of the United States or his daughter inciting them, or praising them during the attacks as “special people” and “American Patriots”:
At number 3:
Al Qaeda wasn’t umbilically connected to the U.S. conservative moment and the GOP; didn’t have sympathizers in the House GOP caucus who spoke at its rallies and offered cover for them.
At number 2:
Al Qaeda hadn’t successfully infiltrated U.S. law enforcement and even the military in the run-up to 9/11. None of the 19 hijackers were off-duty cops or veterans.
And the number 1 reason why Al Qaeda was not as much a danger as these #MAGAterrorists are is because… Al Qaeda wasn’t white. We take the threat from brown men with big beards much more seriously than the threat from white guys. Hence the Capitol attack.
And here are my responses:
5. False. Al Jazeera aired al-Qaeda material and ran interference for it. Hasan’s exercise in moral equivalence also assumes that Trump incited and endorsed the storming of the Capitol on January 6, and that the entry into the Capitol was terrorism, and therefore when OANN or Newsmax reported favorably on Trump, they were endorsing terrorism. This is a whole string of false premises. Trump didn’t incite the attack: he never called upon people to enter the Capitol or disrupt the electoral vote count. To claim that he did so by means of “dog whistles” or some such is to claim that his intent beyond his actual words can be discerned in an objective manner. Once you grant that, you’ve opened the door for anyone in power to claim that someone criticizing them really means to incite violence, and thus must be silenced. The same thing goes for OANN and Newsmax: they never called for violence. Al-Qaeda calls for violence all the time. To equate the two means that any unpopular speech can be criminalized. Even Mehdi Hasan could find himself on the wrong end of that idea someday.
4. False. There is no indication that Trump was calling anyone but his supporters “special people” and “American Patriots,” and to assume that he meant those who stormed the Capitol, even though he told the protestors to proceed peacefully, is, at best, unproven.
3. Al-Qaeda is “umbilically connected” to the American Left and the Democrat Party, in the sense that Democrat leaders routinely oppose virtually every counterterror measure as “Islamophobia” and do everything they can to remove all roadblocks in the way of jihad terror attacks occurring on American soil. Those who think this is a false or overstated charge are requested to provide evidence that the Left has ever been as concerned about the jihad terror threat as it is about supposed “Islamophobia.”
2. Actually there is considerable evidence of infiltration of law enforcement and the military by Muslim officials who oppose efforts to discuss and understand the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism. Consider, for example, the firing of Stephen Coughlin from the military’s Joint Staff in 2008 because of complaints from the Defense Department’s Hesham Islam over his analysis of the motivating ideology behind the jihad threat. Then there is the extensive and friendly contact between the Justice Department’s Eric Treene and the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations and Islamic Society of North America. Hesham Islam, CAIR and ISNA aren’t al-Qaeda, but those are just two examples among a great many of how the American law enforcement and military apparatus is deeply involved with groups and individuals that do not exactly have combating the jihad terror threat among their highest priorities.
1. This one is just more of the race-baiting agitprop so favored on the Left these days, right up to the top: even Joe Biden claimed that the Capitol rioters were treated more leniently because they were white than they would have been otherwise. Is the anti-Trump Black Lives Matter activist John Sullivan, who was arrested in the Capitol, white? And what of white American al-Qaeda terrorists such as the late Adam Gadahn, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike? Was the strike that killed him less lethal because he was white?
Mehdi Hasan’s five points are a tissue of victimhood propaganda, race-baiting, and defamation. And judging from the responses to them on Twitter, Leftists love them.
Atheist Kafir/Infidel says
Over here, in the profoundly dark heart of Islamoland, El-Qaeda and the Islamic State are gang raping and mass murdering non-Koranimals on a daily basis in accord with Koran 9:5, 9:29, and 47:4!
mortimer says
Mehdi Hasan is a Shi’ite who hates Sunnite Muslims and thinks that dirty kafirs are ‘cattle’, and yet, preposterously, he claims he espouses a benign form of Islam that is not supremacist.
Mehdi Hasan is 100% a supremacist, but he pretends not to be. What an act!
SS says
I watched Mehdi Hassan’s leaked video as well, where he called non-Muslims ‘cattle’ (referring to a passage in the Quran). Make no mistake, they are all supremacists – even when they come with begging bowls.
John Adams says
What an ignorant ass! People standing up for our country are domestic terrorists and worse than isis? Where were these “people” the last 4 years? Last 12 years when cities were burning, law enforcement being assaulted, statues being torn down?
mortimer says
Who is paying Shi’ite Mehdi Hasan to promote and defend Shi’ism? Forensic audit of Mehdi Hasan, please. Follow the money.
mortimer says
Who’s violent? The break-and-enter at the Capitol is now known to have been a leftist false flag operation. Those who entered the Senate left when one cop asked them to leave.
The ‘EXCELERATIONIST’ intruders in the Capitol have been facially identified as a leftist activist group that supports BLM.
Their tweets and emails showed they had planned the B and E at the Capitol.
See the peaceful intrusion into the congressional chamber .. leader says a prayer :
https://79days.news/watch?id=6004f306b66a15474ef06154
mortimer says
Leftist activists posing as right-wing … BOOGALOO BOIS … false flag
On Jan 6, Mike Dunna a self-described Boogaloo Boi, tweeted “BB Teams have activated in VA and we currently have 4 fireteams inside capital and 7 more outside.”
‘Boogaloo Boi’ Leader Who Aligns with Black Lives Matter Boasted About Organizing Armed Insurrection On US Capitol
https://understandingdeeppolitics.org/boogaloo-boi-leader-who-aligns-with-black-lives-matter-boasted-about-organizing-armed-insurrection-on-us-capitol/
Contrary to allegations leveled by the political left and their allies in the mainstream media, anti-Trump groups primarily perpetrated insurrection on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
The Gateway Pundit has obtained archived tweets from Mike Dunn, leader of “Boogaloo Bois,” an anti-government, anti-Trump group whose adherents call for a revolution toppling the federal government
Dunn boasted on social media about his team being locked and loaded inside the Capitol during the riot.
The 22-year-old Boogaloo leader and Virginia resident bragged about “infiltrating” MAGA during the riot and scoffed at Trump supporters for adhering to the 6pm citywide curfew for the District of Columbia mandated on Jan 6.
“After MAGA and others stormed the capital building in a moment of anger (which was cool)…they retreated to hotels to comply with the Curfew. We obviously didn’t…stayed out in the streets until 12,” he tweeted on Jan. 7.
In response to another Twitter user, he claimed, “Those were infiltrators, not real MAGA,” Dunn gloated, “Yeh, we know.”
Rarely says
If, as you allege, this was a “false flag operation” by Boogaloo Bois, Antifa, BLM, etc and that they were the real anarchists then Trump will have the opportunity to prove it in his impeachment trial. In any event one can expect FOX News to play it for all it’s worth. Personally I’ll wait and see.
Mike says
and just another smoke screen from the Muslims to cover for there own crimes against the non-be leavers
just like the Democrats blame everyone for what your doing to shift attention
Mojdeh says
https://www.israelnewstalkradio.com best middle east news and info and free chat. Regarding Haji Mehdi he does not know anything.? ISIS and Talliban and terrorist regime of Iran is number 1 danger. You support sharia Islam , w edo not . Robert Spencer e mail Tamar and go to her show soon? They need you
also act for America Bridgett take her too in seperate slots… I love Anna Baboula songs Greek Fire.1980s
Van Hee says
Thereligionofpeace.com keeps score. Islam is the biggest terror threat the world has ever seen.. black crime is another issue these leftists fail to mention..black crimes matter.. islamist killing matters…
Mojdeh says
Canadian government to introduce online “hate speech” regulations in early 2021
The Canadian government plans to introduce “comprehensive” regulations that target “hate speech” on social media platforms.
The regulations will reportedly be tabled in 2021 and are being introduced “to promote a safer and more inclusive online environment.”
A briefing note on the new regulations from Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department stated:
“We are working to introduce regulations to reduce the spread of illegal content, including hate speech, in order to promote a safer and more inclusive online environment. We want to protect Canadians online.”
The briefing added that: “Social media platforms can also be used to threaten, intimidate, bully and harass people, or used to promote racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, misogynist and homophobic views that target communities, put people’s safety and risk and undermine Canada’s social cohesion or democracy.”
Before winning reelection in 2019, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party made tackling online hate speech a major priority and proposed giving social media platforms a 24-hour deadline to remove hate speech or face “significant financial penalties.”
Last September, the Canadian government doubled down on its threat to regulate online hate speech with Canada’s Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, Catherine McKenna, warning: “We don’t have to regulate everything but if you can’t regulate yourselves, governments will.” One day later, the Canadian government promised to “redouble its effort by taking action on online hate.”
Trudeau has also expressed conflicting views on free speech. In October, he compared drawing Muhammed cartoons to “yelling fire in a crowded movie theatre” and said there are “limits” to free speech after a terrorist attack in France where a teacher was beheaded after showing Charlie Hebdo cartoons that depict the Prophet Mohammed.
After facing heavy criticism, Trudeau then backtracked on these anti-free speech comments and stated: “I think it is more important to continue to defend freedom of expression and freedom of speech. Our artists help us to reflect and challenge our views, and they contribute to our society.”
Critics have warned that online hate speech laws pose a threat to free speech because they risk criminalizing and jailing people for expressing controversial views.
But these warnings have largely fallen on deaf ears with Canada being just one of several countries to propose or introduce hate speech laws and regulations over the last few months.
For example, Scotland’s controversial “hate crime” bill, which would sanction the possession of “inflammatory media” and “problematic” social media posts, is looking increasingly likely to pass. And Norway recently passed a new law under which people can be jailed for hate speech in private conversations. Canada is Sharia Law , You must kiss as a Muslim ?
somehistory says
He counted to five and that is the only Truthful thing he said.
All of the rest is hokey…as in “noticeably contrived.” What moslim wouldn’t go on tv if paid to be there and say those things to a widespread audience…or go on the twit site and label ***innocent**** people as terrorists and lie like satan in an attempt to clean the image of islam and moslims?
How many slime are going to crawl out of the woodwork and slander White people in the U.S. who don’t want to see their freedoms go up in a cloud of bm, antif, comey, bratten, pelosi, shumer, raskin, schiff, cheney, and **moslim**, smoke?
For years now, since ‘o’ began pretending, much as biden is going to be, there has been a wash, much like Victoria Falls, of people coming forth to say how dangerous are the people who just want to keep what the Constitution promises…God’s gifts that the Constitution guarantees…and which these lying losers are making every attempt to take away.
“Christians, clinging to their guns and Bibles.” “ex-military potential terrorists” and limiting their buying of guns. omar saying how afraid she was of being targeted by those who disagree with her
It’s been going on for more than a decade and since biden was ‘given’ the election by the crooks that wanted him in, the number of lies and false accusations of being terrorists has increased to the point of putting Mr. Trump’s voters in the crosshairs of the government and deranged people who have been “radicalized” by the liars.
Justis says
Hasan has lost all credibility with such a insanely irrational statement, right leaning conservatives will never be on par with jihadist radicals terrorist organization of death and destruction.
Comparing American protesters to a death cult that has been slaughtering innocent Muslims and non Muslims alike is disgustingly disgraceful.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
What about the threat of Mehdi Hasan’s fugly ass face?
job says
Why give this filthy bastard air-time?
Mojdeh says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvUXawXNodU Christianity is the biggest religion growing fast indeed.
Jayell says
‘Far right domestic terror threat is more dangerous than even Al Qaeda after 9/11’……
More dangerous for WHOM, exactly? Al Qaeda and friends? Wouldn’t that be more likely to fit the agenda of someone named ‘Mehdi Hasan’?
OLD GUY says
Mehdi Hasan, his name says it all. Islamic propagandist! Let’s paint Islam as peace and love. Everyone else is wrong about Islam.