Another opportunity to shore up their sagging “white terror threat” narrative is lost. My latest in FrontPage:
A man murdered ten people in a Boulder, Colorado supermarket Monday. No details were immediately released about the shooter, but Leftist “journalists,” working from a photo of the shooter, seized upon the shooting to shore up their sagging narrative of “white supremacist terrorism.” There was just one problem: the massacre was actually, after a four-year hiatus, a new incidence of Islamic jihad on American soil.
Even after the shooter’s name was revealed as Ahmad Al Issa (which is how he himself wrote it on his Facebook and Twitter accounts), establishment media reports continued to give his name as “Alissa,” which of course is a common first name for women in the U.S., and thus gives the impression that he is an American non-Muslim. Were “journalists” trying to obscure the fact that he is a Muslim migrant ISIS sympathizer? Of course they were.
And that was after they had already decided that he was one of those “right-wing extremists” who are, according to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the “most lethal and persistent” threat the U.S. faces today. Julie DiCaro, a senior writer and editor at Deadspin, tweeted: “Extremely tired of people’s lives depending on whether a white man with an AR-15 is having a good day or not.” As of this writing on Tuesday afternoon, DiCaro has not taken down the tweet, as some media hacks are still, like a captain going down with his sinking ship, insisting that Al Issa is white. Prominent race baiter Tariq Nasheed tweeted: “White supremacists are trying their hardest to deflect from the fact the Boulder suspect is WHITE. Syrians in America are legally, politically & socially WHITE. Their white status is well documented in court cases Terms like ‘muslim’, ‘Arab’, ‘islamic’ doesn’t change whiteness.”
Of course Al Issa really is white, as he is an Arab Muslim migrant from Syria, and Arabs have been considered “white” ever since they began arriving in this country. Nasheed’s tweet, however, still pointed up the Left’s inconsistency and hypocrisy: up until this shooting, Leftists considered Arab Muslims to be “brown,” after the fashion of Linda Sarsour, who memorably identified as white until she put on a hijab and miraculously became a “person of color.” If the Boulder shooter had been a white non-Muslim American and his victims had been white Arab Muslims, Tariq Nasheed would be railing against the persecution of “brown” people in the United States.
But as it is, Nasheed is trying desperately to shore up a failing narrative. The reality is that Ahmad Al Issa is a deeply religious Muslim with pro-ISIS sympathies. He complained bitterly about “Islamophobia,” hated Donald Trump with passionate intensity, and had scouted out churches and Trump rallies as possible targets for his jihad massacre.
All this makes it abundantly clear that not only is Ahmad Al Issa not a “white supremacist,” but he is a living manifestation of the effects of Leftism in America today. After migrating from Syria as a child during the Obama administration, he, and many others like him, has been inundated with relentless propaganda about how he is a victim of a racist and “Islamophobic” society that will never give him a fair shake, and is institutionally determined to make sure he will never succeed. He has been told that Trump hated Muslims and that his followers were precisely the people who were keeping him down and denying him access to the privilege that they themselves enjoyed at the expense of the “brown” people they despised.
The Democratic Party has been stoking this kind of resentment and feeding it to young people in schools, colleges and universities for years. Ahmad Al Issa is a product of their indoctrination. That in itself may be one reason why Leftist “journalists” and professional agitators such as Tariq Nasheed are so intent on driving home the point that this was a “white” shooter acting out of the hatred that is intrinsic to American culture: to deflect attention away from the fact that he is not a product of American culture at all, but of the Left’s subculture of hatred and resentment. If we had a sane political environment in the country today, that is the hateful subculture the Justice Department would be concerned about. Instead, even as Antifa continues to make the Great Northwest into a radioactive wasteland, this hateful subculture isn’t even on the radar screen. And Ahmad Al Issa isn’t going to put it there.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
How quickly the leftist news media pivoted from the narrative of white supremacism to gun control.
Thus, they were able to turn the narrative back on conservatives by implying that if only poor Ahmad
were properly vetted, this tragedy would never have happened. Thereby, overlooking the fact that Islam
was Ahmad’s primary weapon and an assault rifle was just one of many “tools” with which to carry out
Islamic carnage.
RichardL says
the Left is making up stuff and liberals let them and vote for them. Race includes religion other than Christianity. So when Sarsour put on the hijab, she became visible as as a person from a master race (subjugated master race). However, when a black person is conservative or a brownish person wears a kippa, they are not black or brownish anymore. Critical theory at work: false consciousness (like a worker who is not a socialist).
mortimer says
Muslims VENERATE to the point of IDOLATRY a WHITE PROPHET who was repeatedly referred to in reference to his amazing WHITENESS. Mohammed was WHITE, not brown.
Alfredo says
There is ample evidence to suggest that “the prophet” was a Persian.
This explains the over emphasis in the ahaddith on his “whiteness”
How ironic that in these insane days of Orwellian newspeak some woke imbecile complains about a “pandemia of whiteness” afflicting the United States. Hello is anybody out there? LOL! This libtard logic is like going to Africa and complaining there is a pandemia of blackness.
These people are so messed up by the relentless indoctrination that they cannot think clearly anymore.
Like the moron claiming that the biggest threat to the security of American citizens is the great evil known as “White Supremacy”
This Idiocy explains how falling Joe can get away calling Antifa “an idea”
Just like the paid activist desguised as a journalist claiming “mostly peaceful protests” with the burning buildings in the background!?
Those and many more are examples of the derangement induced by the mind pathogen known to those who are watching the mental retardation as the vile WOKE IDIOCY SYNDROME.
gravenimage says
Muhammed was Persian? Citations, please.
Rob Porter says
mortimer – reading this report re-emphasizes what a raving lunatic asylum America has become. Black men who represent 6.2 percent of America’s population, commit 52 percent of America’s murders, but no, to leftist morons and black racists – and Kamala Harris’s imbecile niece – white men are America’s biggest mass killers. In 9/11 brown Muslims, most from Saudi Arabia, murdered almost 3,000, in Fort Hood the Muslim, Nidal Hasan, murdered 13 people, but no, white American men are biggest murderers.
It’s about time white Americans stopped being shy about calling out black and brown racists for what they are
Aastra says
Master race LOL.
Keith O says
It must be an “interesting” place inside the brains of leftards like DiCaro and Nasheed.
Using their twisted logic, the Syrian dictator, Assad is a white man killing “people of color” Not simply a murderous tyrant.
It’s times like this that words fail me as I try to do the mental gymnastics required to understand the thought processes of the left.
Kepha says
Look, folks, if your firecely anti-Communist Cuban emigre friend clearly has what the Old South used to call “the lick of the tar brush” (common in Caribbean places) and the Left insists his politics make him “white”, politely explain to the Left that you and they speak different languages, and ask them to pay Uncle Kepha USD $35.00 to translate.
BTW, I’m [mostly] white and look white, and I’m not bothered if they identify the Boulder shooter as another white person. Uncle Kepha recognizes that criminals come in all colors. Were his name Boudros instead of Ahmad, Uncle Kepha would also freely admit that Christians can still sin grievously. Nobody gets to Heaven save on the merits, sacrifice, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
gravenimage says
Kepha, you are an intelligent and perceptive man, and surely realize that this is not about whether Ahmad Al Issa should be characterized as “white” or not as such (actually, as a Syrian he *would* be considered white by many yardsticks).
This is about whether to blame mainstream conservative Americans for this, or Jihad terrorists. Leftists want to blame the former for all ills, even when they had nothing to do with it as here–and they want to pretend that Jihad terror is not a threat.
Many are *still* trying to use this case to undercut the Second Amendment and to pretend that the problem is white people as such.
mortimer says
The only criterion the Left is concerned about is POWER. Facts are relevant to them only when they produce MORE power.
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer–but Leftists also have their “narratives”, and they have decided that Jihad terror is not to be considered a concern, but patriotic Americans are a threat.
“Kamala Harris’ niece takes heat for presuming Boulder shooter was white”
“VIolent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country,” she wrote.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/23/kamala-harris-niece-slammed-for-presuming-boulder-shooter-was-white/
mortimer says
GI quotes the slander “VIolent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country.”
This is the SECOND part, namely, to SLANDER all Republican patriots who …. those noble fellows who gave their lives for freedom … the freedom the Leftists can’t wait to legislate away.
They will have died in vain.
Pam says
And after full power comes dictatorship, that’s when we are screwed and just look at the evil that we are up against. The next 2 to 4 years are going to be the hardest and scariest yet. They make Obama look like a preschooler.
gravenimage says
Grimly so, Mortimer.
Kepha says
I get your point. But I would blame the American Left for creating, through its Gramscian March through our institutions, of creating a society that won’t protect itself. We need a cultural counter-revolution here first.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Kepha.
Sancho Panza says
Right on the button, gravenimage. All this hoopla about whiteness is a straw man argument designed to divert attention from the fact the shooter is a ‘good’ Muslim just following Islamic precepts of wreaking death and destruction on the hated kuffar.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Sancho–agreed.
Gamzu says
Speaking of names, Issa is how Arabic-speaking Muslims refer to Jesus. (I don’t mean to suggest there is any special significance to the killer’s name being Al Issa. Just thought it was interesting.)
gravenimage says
Of course, the Islamic “prophet Isa” is *nothing* like the Jesus of the Gospels. His main role in the last days is to kill all Christians.
Walter Sieruk says
This new information about the real identity of that murderous shooter is rather a setback ,as disappointment for the domestic terrorists of Antifa and BLM in their absurd and irrational Red/Green alliance.
So it’s “tough beans” for them.RED
gravenimage says
Many are *still* ignoring his being a Jihadist.
Nancy MacDougald Albert says
Today’s Wall Street Journal about this wondered what the motive could be and did not give his name.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Yohannes says
https://nasional.kompas.com/read/2019/03/19/08000011/soal-toleransi-indonesia-jadi-rujukan-australia
Pfftt… Indonesians(abduls only) increasingly whinning and complains that their tolerance is actually too much, i even personally meet one of them..
Patrick White says
Just another Muslim terrorist attack.
If it had to happen, why couldn’t the victims have been those who now try to deflect us from that very fact?
mortimer says
MOHAMMED WAS A WHITE MAN ACCORDING TO MORE THAN 31 HADITHS:
Legs were white: Sahih Bukhari 4:56:767; Sahih Muslim 8:3325
Thighs were white: Sahih Bukhari 1:8:367, See Also Sahih Muslim 19.4437
Shanks were white: Sahih Bukhari 1:8:367, See Also Sahih Muslim 19.4437
Armpits were white: Sahih Bukhari 8:78:631, See Also Sahih Bukhari 9.086.108:1:1, Sahih Bukhari 9.089.286:1:1, Sahih Bukhari 9.089.305:1:1, Sahih Bukhari 3.047.769:1:1, Sahih Muslim 20.4511:1, Sahih Muslim 20.4509:1; Sahih Bukhari 5:59:612, See Also Sahih Muslim 31:6092, Sahih Muslim 31:6092; Sunan Abu Dawud 3:898
Forearms were white: Sahih Muslim 4:1014
Abdomen was white: Sahih Bukhari 9:90:342, See Also Sahih Bukhari 4:52:90; Sahih Muslim 19:4442
Cheeks were white: Sahih Muslim 4:1208; Sunan Abu Dawud 3:991; Sunan Abu Dawud 3:1002
Complexion was white: Sahih Muslim 30:5777, See Also Sahih Muslim 30:5786
General appearance was white: Sahih Bukhari 1:3:63; Sahih Bukhari 2:17:122; Sahih Bukhari 4:56:744; Sahih Muslim 30:5778, See Also Sahih Muslim 30:5778
Mohammed the WHITEST PROPHET who owned Black Slaves
BLACK SLAVES OF MUHAMMAD
Sahih Muslim, Book 10, Number 3901:
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:
There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah’s Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) on migration; he (the Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterwards take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man).
It is just and commendable that Muhammad does insist on paying the owner, and that he (possibly even) frees this convert (though this is not mentioned), but what about those other two black slaves?
This hadith reports that Muhammad had two black slaves at his disposal to trade in for the other man. And presumably these two were Muhammad’s own property. If he had to buy them first before he could exchange them, why would he not just give the owner the value in money or whatever else he would have given the man he got the two from? Also, it seems that the black slaves were worth less than this non-black slave, so that is the reason for the 2:1 rate. We do know this from historical documents (cf. Bernhard Lewis) about slavery in Islamic history that white slaves got a much higher price than black slaves.
Malik’s Muwatta, Book 21, Number 21.13.25:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Thawr ibn Zayd ad-Dili from Abu’l-Ghayth Salim, the mawla of ibn Muti that Abu Hurayra said, “We went out with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, in the yearof Khaybar. We did not capture any gold or silver except for personal effects, clothes, and baggage. Rifaa ibn Zayd presented a black slave boy to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, whose name was Midam. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, made for Wadi’l-Qura, and when he arrived there, Midam was unsaddling the camel of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, when a stray arrow struck and killed him. The people said, ‘Good luck to him! The Garden!’ The Messenger of Allah said, ‘No! By He in whose hand my self is! The cloak which he took from the spoils on the Day of Khaybar before they were distributed will blaze with fire on him.’ When the people heard that, a man brought a sandal-strap or two sandal-straps to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ‘A sandal-strap or two sandal-straps of fire!’ ”
Muhammad got a black slave boy (as a present?) and he starts working for Muhammad. No mention is made that Muhammad freed him.
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 91, Number 368:
Narrated ‘Umar:
I came and behold, Allah’s Apostle was staying on a Mashroba (attic room) and a black slave of Allah’s Apostle was at the top if its stairs. I said to him, “(Tell the Prophet) that here is ‘Umar bin Al-Khattab (asking for permission to enter).” Then he admitted me. … (cf. Bukhari 3.648, 6.435, 7.119)
Note: It does not say “the black slave of Muhammad” it says “a black slave” which is an indication there were more than one.
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 73, Number 182:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah’s Apostle was on a journey and he had a black slave called Anjasha, and he was driving the camels (very fast, and there were women riding on those camels). Allah’s Apostle said, “Waihaka (May Allah be merciful to you), O Anjasha! Drive slowly (the camels) with the glass vessels (women)!”
In addition to the above listed hadiths there are a considerable number of other black slaves mentioned which were owned by `Aisha or some of the companions of Muhammad.
Finally, Sahih Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 15, Number 103:
Narrated ‘Urwa on the authority of ‘Aisha:
On the days of Mina, (11th, 12th, and 13th of Dhul-Hijjah) Abu Bakr came to her while two young girls were beating the tambourine and the Prophet was lying covered with his clothes. Abu Bakr scolded them and the Prophet uncovered his face and said to Abu Bakr, “Leave them, for these days are the days of ‘Id and the days of Mina.” ‘Aisha further said, “Once the Prophet was screening me and I was watching the display of black slaves in the Mosque and (‘Umar) scolded them. The Prophet said, ‘Leave them. O Bani Arfida! (carry on), you are safe (protected)’.”
gravenimage says
Muhammed being “white” just means he wasn’t out in the fields working like the victims he enslaved.
Infidel says
If Ahmad al Issa’s parents moved to the US in 2003, when he was 3, then they came during the Bush administration, not Obama’s. At the time, Syria was thought of as an ally in the ‘War on Terror’, since we were sending al Qaeda prisoners there to be interrogated using techniques that would be subject to Congressional peaceniks interfering if done by Americans. Regimes like Assad’s were happy to do them for us
Eleanor says
A Muslim Incel is the most dangerous of men.
gravenimage says
Boulder Shooter is ISIS Sympathizer, Leftists Hardest Hit
………………
Yes.
And yet I have *still* heard the Jihadist described as “white”. He was described as a “white Christian terrorist” on Twitter, and they say this lied does not violate their standards.
https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-says-calling-boulder-shooter-white-christian-terrorist-ok-1578284
Inspired Infidel says
It’s a 1400 year war that will never end. It’s a war between good and evil. It’s a war between right and wrong. Muslims are inbred vermin wasting the planet’s good air. The best way to end islam is to share the truth about islam.
1980s "goth" says
A white Muslim? Well, well, well, would you believe it?
_______________________________________
‘but…”journalists”, working from a photo of the shooter’
Different scenario:
Right-wing journalist, youtuber, blogger, political party activist sees a man who fits the narrative.
Three pieces of “evidence”
1. man sometimes wears a black T-shirt
2. man sometimes wears a pair of black chinos
3. man has moved to a run-down part of the city*
Conclusion: man must be involved in left-wing activism / a member of an anarchist cell.
(*to reduce his outgoings)
1980s "goth" says
…right-wing “journalists” / “right-wing” journalists / “right-wing journalists” etc.
National socialism is not right-wing. Collectivism is not right-wing.
I am not a nazi or a communist.
Kesselman says
Mooch blamed yesterday the shooting on lacking gun control and voiced her opinion on guns and race. Jihad is the case! As always! Is it that difficult? But she and her dumb cohorts are fact deniers.
Giacomo Latta says
”the massacre was actually, after a four-year hiatus, a new incidence of Islamic jihad on American soil”
The murder of innocents does not have to sum up to double digits before it becomes an act of Jihad. Individuals are being stabbed, sliced and shot regularly.
Jacob Russo says
Possibly Anti-Semitic hate crime? Just for your consideration about Ahmad al-Issa, the ISIS inspired Islamic terrorist, who killed 10 people a King Soopers supermarket, in Boulder, Colorado.
King Soopers is well known by Jews as a place where they can purchase their food easily due to their extensive stock of Kosher items.
It’s interesting how a Radical Islamist, and ISIS sympathizer, drove 25 miles out of his way, to get to this specific store, just to shoot everyone in sight.
Yet, not a single mainstream outlet wants to talk about the fact that the location of the attack is a Jewish-friendly store, with a large Jewish clientele.
On their website, King Soopers advertises itself as “Your One-Stop Shop For Kosher Groceries”.
Given that the Jewish holiday of Passover begins this coming Saturday night, March 27th, many Jews have been shopping for Kosher groceries and supplies.
Jews purchase their groceries from grocery stores that carry Kosher goods, like King Soopers.
But NOT a single news station is reporting on this.
Please think about this. It may very probably have been a targeted attack against Jews. And, as often is the case, non-Jews get hurt as collateral damage.
https://www.kingsoopers.com/f/kosher-groceries
gravenimage says
Important point.
OLD GUY says
The more of these muslim/islamic migrants that Biden-Harris administration allow through their open border policy with muslim countries, the more of these type of attacks against American citizens will take place. Our open borders will destroy America as we have known it, and will turn the USA into another third world country. And there are a lot of people around the world cheering that on.