As I predicted in this article, Muslims are enraged at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for using the word “jihad” to describe President Trump’s immigration policies. Sadaf Mehdi of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York fumed: “Governor Cuomo’s comparison of it to a ‘jihad’ only perpetuates the Islamophobic trope that acts of violence are […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Governor Cuomo Likens Trump’s Immigration Policies to ‘Jihad’
Will CAIR reprimand him for using the term’s violent definition? My latest in PJ Media: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has claimed that the Trump administration is “on a crusade against people who they do not consider original Americans.” That term was apparently fine, since even Catholics take for granted today that the Crusades were […]
Cuomo likens Trump’s immigration policies to “jihad”
“They are on a Jihad to deport as many people as they can who they believe are not in the United States legally.” What’s that? They’re on an interior spiritual struggle to deport people? The irony here is that if confronted about Islamic jihad, Cuomo would doubtless say that it’s a beautiful thing, a spiritual […]
NY Governor Cuomo on NYC jihad massacre: No evidence to suggest wider plot, “no ongoing threat”
No evidence to suggest a wider plot or an ongoing threat? Really, Governor? Here’s some: last June, the Islamic State published a poster depicting an SUV driving over a heap of skulls and bearing the legend “Run Over Them Without Mercy.” And the Islamic State issued this call in September 2014: So O muwahhid, do not […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: A Weekend of Coincidences
I wrote this yesterday afternoon before it was indisputable that the New York and New Jersey bombs were jihad. It stands as a record of the denial and willful ignorance of our authorities. In FrontPage today: It was a weekend of coincidences: acts declared not to be terrorism that just happened to look a great […]
NY governor contradicts NY mayor, says Chelsea blast was terrorism, but says no evidence of international terrorism
Cuomo may be implying that it was “right-wing extremism,” not jihad, but this really isn’t clear enough to go by. The only thing it establishes is that Cuomo is more realistic and honest than de Blasio. But this still doesn’t make it clear whether or not this was an act of jihad. If our leaders […]
Rochester, NY New Year’s jihad mass murder plotter converted to Islam in prison
He was, however, “radicalized” on the Internet, according to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo doesn’t appear to consider even for a second the possibility that he could have been “radicalized” in prison by New York State-certified imams. Inconceivable! But shouldn’t the possibility at very least be investigated? “Cuomo: Suspect in Rochester New Year’s Eve […]