Sunday, February 18, 2007
The Invisible Jihad
There is none so blind as he who will not see. An echo of white guilt over what was condemned years ago as racial profiling (when it was often rational profiling) is the refusal of those in the government and media to ask the easy question when violent acts are perpetrated in this country by young Muslim men.
It's also known as Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Here's the list beyond the Bosnian youth, Sulejman Talovic, who killed five and wounded four in a Salt Lake City Mall last week.
• A 30-year-old Muslim man, Naveed Afzal Haq, who went on a shooting rampage at a Jewish community center in Seattle, announcing "I'm a Muslim-American; I'm angry at Israel."
• An Egyptian national, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, who shot two and wounded three at an Israeli airline ticket counter at LAX.
• A bearded 21-year-old student, Joel Hinrichs, who blew himself up with a backpack filled with TATP (the explosive of choice in the Mideast) outside a packed Oklahoma University football stadium not long after he started attending the local mosque.
• A 23-year-old student, Mohammed Ali Alayed, who slashed the throat of his Jewish friend in Houston after apparently undergoing a religious awakening (he went to a local mosque afterward).
• The D.C. snipers — John Muhammad and Lee Malvo, both black Muslim converts — who picked off 13 people in the suburbs around the Beltway as part of what Muhammad described as a "prolonged terror campaign against America" around the first anniversary of 9/11, which he had praised.
• Omeed Aziz Popal of Fremont, Calif., who police said hit and killed a bicyclist there then took his SUV on a hit-and-run spree in San Francisco, mowing down pedestrians at crosswalks and on sidewalks before police caught up with him, whereupon the Muslim called himself a "terrorist."
• A 22-year-old Muslim, Ismail Yassin Mohamed, who stole a car in Minneapolis and rammed it into other cars before stealing a van and doing the same, injuring drivers and pedestrians, while repeatedly yelling, "Die, die, die, kill, kill, kill" — all, he said, on orders from "Allah."
• A 22-year-old Iranian honors student, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, who deliberately rammed his SUV into a crowd at the University of North Carolina to "punish the government of the United States" for invading Iraq and other Muslim nations.
Ian Fleming is credited with the aphorism--Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. What is 9 times? A campaign of terrorism which way too many of us refuse to recognize.
UPDATE: Add one more--Palestinian English teacher Ali Abu Kamal who went to the observation deck of the Empire State Building in 1997, pulled out a gun, and opened fire, killing one person and wounding six others before killing himself. The media invested in the lie that he was despondent and suicidal after a financial loss. Now we know, pretty much for sure, that this was part of the invisible Jihad.
It's also known as Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Here's the list beyond the Bosnian youth, Sulejman Talovic, who killed five and wounded four in a Salt Lake City Mall last week.
• A 30-year-old Muslim man, Naveed Afzal Haq, who went on a shooting rampage at a Jewish community center in Seattle, announcing "I'm a Muslim-American; I'm angry at Israel."
• An Egyptian national, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, who shot two and wounded three at an Israeli airline ticket counter at LAX.
• A bearded 21-year-old student, Joel Hinrichs, who blew himself up with a backpack filled with TATP (the explosive of choice in the Mideast) outside a packed Oklahoma University football stadium not long after he started attending the local mosque.
• A 23-year-old student, Mohammed Ali Alayed, who slashed the throat of his Jewish friend in Houston after apparently undergoing a religious awakening (he went to a local mosque afterward).
• The D.C. snipers — John Muhammad and Lee Malvo, both black Muslim converts — who picked off 13 people in the suburbs around the Beltway as part of what Muhammad described as a "prolonged terror campaign against America" around the first anniversary of 9/11, which he had praised.
• Omeed Aziz Popal of Fremont, Calif., who police said hit and killed a bicyclist there then took his SUV on a hit-and-run spree in San Francisco, mowing down pedestrians at crosswalks and on sidewalks before police caught up with him, whereupon the Muslim called himself a "terrorist."
• A 22-year-old Muslim, Ismail Yassin Mohamed, who stole a car in Minneapolis and rammed it into other cars before stealing a van and doing the same, injuring drivers and pedestrians, while repeatedly yelling, "Die, die, die, kill, kill, kill" — all, he said, on orders from "Allah."
• A 22-year-old Iranian honors student, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, who deliberately rammed his SUV into a crowd at the University of North Carolina to "punish the government of the United States" for invading Iraq and other Muslim nations.
Ian Fleming is credited with the aphorism--Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. What is 9 times? A campaign of terrorism which way too many of us refuse to recognize.
UPDATE: Add one more--Palestinian English teacher Ali Abu Kamal who went to the observation deck of the Empire State Building in 1997, pulled out a gun, and opened fire, killing one person and wounding six others before killing himself. The media invested in the lie that he was despondent and suicidal after a financial loss. Now we know, pretty much for sure, that this was part of the invisible Jihad.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 9:41 AM 
