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The world’s attention has moved on to COVID and China and Kevin McCarthy, but our authorities remain vigilant and as focused as ever on the real issues, foremost among which is making sure that nobody thinks ill of the religion of Islam. Thomas Galati, the New York Police Department’s chief of intelligence and counterterrorism, on Tuesday offered details of the New Year’s Eve attack in Times Square, in which a 19-year-old from Maine, Trevor Bickford, stabbed two NYPD officers. Galati, however, seemed more interested in exonerating the Islamic religion (Bickford is a convert to Islam, as he made abundantly clear in his manifesto) than in actually illuminating what Bickford thought he was accomplishing.
Galati, who has the classic look and sound of an NYPD cop straight out of central casting, looked massively uncomfortable as he admitted:
He knew what he was doing, he knew why he was doing it, he thought that he probably would die as a result of carrying out this attack. Um, y’know, during the attack he did yell out “Allah akbar,” um, you know, and, um, you know, I – I believe he thought that this would be, um, you know, k–, suicide by cop, uh, basically, at the end of this attack. This is a distorted, uh, you know, um, uh, uh, version of him being radicalized and thinking that what he’s doing is right, um, you know, just, uh, want to make sure that that’s clear, he’s not representing, you know, uh, the Islamic religion, but rather, you know, a very, very small percentage of people that get radicalized.
Thomas Galati is repeating the same blather that officials all over the West have repeated for years after every jihad attack that they couldn’t explain away as “mental illness” or something else. Usually authorities say these things without Galati’s level of fumbling, embarrassment, and hesitation, but still, we hear this kind of statement after every incident of Islamic jihad violence. And that is extraordinary in itself. Does any other group have people who aren’t members of it so anxious to do public relations for it? Does any other group have so many people committing violence in its name, with people who aren’t in the group at all then rushing to make sure you don’t think anything negative about the group, or get the idea that the people doing violence are representative of this group?
If he had an ounce of actual concern for New Yorkers and not just concern for not offending Muslims, Thomas Galati would be publicly asking today how it is that Trevor Bickford and so many other converts to Islam somehow get their new, peaceful religion all wrong, and what Muslim leaders are doing to prevent this. But no one ever dares to ask that.
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Michael Copeland says
Not just useless, worse than useless.
As Mr. Spencer says, “actively misleading”.
Michael Copeland says
The Monty Python sketch runs on.
Meanwhile Western life is made more and more unsafe.
Walter Sieruk says
This has to be intentional ignorance on the part of the officials of the NYPD with its misleading statements about what really motivated that Muslim to stabbing the police officers.
This pubic denial about the Islamic motivation of the jihad attacks might be from pressure not only from Muslim groups as CAIR but maybe even from the higher up’s in power in NYC and and State of New York and naturally the Federal government sine Joe Biden and those who uphold him in Office are very devoted to the agenda of the Red/Green alliance.
tim gallagher says
IT’s true that police all around the world do try to obfuscate and try to let islam off the hook for all these Muslim terrorist attacks, and the media also seem to do the same, but, by now, if the average citizen can’t see that the problem is always with Muslims (it is not Buddhist terrorists or Christian terrorists) then it is a pretty hopeless situation. Too many people do seem to buy the rubbish from the police and media and do want to keep their heads buried in the sand. Almost everybody should have woken up by now.
Michael Copeland says
OSTRICH SANDS
Life has many comforts here
At lovely Ostrich Sands.
We wish you’d stop this tiresome talk
Of problems on our hands.
We like our foreign nannies,
And the decorators, too.
They’re nice and cheap, their work is good:
Stop making such ado.
We mainly think of parties,
And foreign tours to book,
The newest films, high fashion shoes,
The latest trendy look.
We simply haven’t time to spare
To hear about Islam.
Do take a break and let us be,
Relax a bit, old charm.
John ..Smith says
+1
tim gallagher says
Thanks for that Michael. Unfortunately, it is spot on as a description of the mentalities of far too many people in our western countries. I think some people will ignore the truth about islam, and tell themselves that it is not a serious problem, just as long as they are not directly affected by the Muslim enemy.