Posted on 01/19/2005 12:26:29 PM PST by Palladin
Jihad in New Jersey By Judson Cox
Monday 17th of January 2005 09:17 AM MST
Yesterday, Hossam Armanious, his wife Amal Garas and their daughters, Monica (8) and Sylvia (15) were found murdered in their New Jersey home. The reason this family was so brutally murdered appears to be that they were outspoken critics of Islam. The family was bound and tortured, before their throats were slit in accord with the instructions for executing nonbelievers, as detailed in the Koran: (47:4) "Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers, smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly [on them]."
They were Coptic Christians, an Egyptian sect of Christianity especially hated by Muslims for their refusal to convert to Islam. Hossam Armanious had received death threats from Muslims. According to a family friend, one of the threats read, "You'd better stop this bull, or we are going to track you down like a chicken and kill you.” Sylvia was especially brutalized, apparently due to the tattoo of a Coptic cross on her wrist. The girl’s throat was not only slit, but she was stabbed repeatedly in the chest and wrist where she bore the sign of her faith.
It remains to be seen how our news media will deal with this horrific slaying. Will this brutal and sensational crime receive as much coverage as the Laci Peterson murder? Will this terrorist attack be treated with the same awe and fascination as the Kobe Bryant case? Will we have 24/7 legal analysis, breaking news, interviews, investigations, magazine racks filled with pictures of the slain, an absolute media frenzy? Or, will this gruesome event be glossed over, whitewashed and quickly forgotten for reasons of political correctness?
When followers of “the religion of peace” hacked off Nick Berg’s head, it received nowhere near the coverage as the Kobe Bryant case. Social commentators and news analysts argued that the story must be played down to prevent stirring up hatred toward the Muslim community. Considering that only one act of violence against a Middle Easterner (mistaken for a Muslim) was performed in retribution for the outrageous murder of over three thousand Americans in the 9/11 attacks, I don’t think that outcome very likely. I think it far more likely that the suppression of coverage was due to fear of offending the Muslim community.
Well, I’m offended by the Muslim community that refuses to condemn such acts of violence. I’m offended by the Muslim community that tolerates the teaching of religious violence, anti-Semitism, anti-Christian bigotry and anti-Americanism in its religious schools. More than that, I am offended by the liberals in our culture who refuse to recognize this violent cancer in our midst that is literally killing us one person, one family and 3,000 persons at a time. I am offended by those who refuse to recognize evil, and demand tolerance from everyone but those who cut off people’s heads and fly planes into buildings. I am offended by those who blame the victims and celebrate the predators out of their own cowardice.
If, as it appears, this family was killed by Islamic terrorists in New Jersey, it must serve as an ear-splitting wake up call. Every American must be warned and reminded that the terrorists hide among us. The likes of Michael Moore, who claim, “There is no terrorist threat,” should be forced to view this atrocity. Those who think the prisoner abuses at Abu Graib were horrible human rights violations should by forced to view the body of an 8 year old girl, her hands bound and her throat slit by their Muslim darlings.
America - you reading this column - do not let this family die in vain! Let them be martyrs to their faith and our freedom. Let their deaths become the turning point, the moment when America finally awoke to the dangers of radical Islam and realized that the war on terror is here, on our soil, now. Do not return to life as normal. Do not let the media give Michael Jackson more coverage than this gruesome terrorist attack. Demand that his story be the most covered of the year - call the national media, call your local media. Call your elected representatives and demand that the laws meant to combat terrorism be enforced. Exercise your Second Amendment rights; buy a gun to protect your family. Know and be willing to protect your neighbors. Keep your eyes open; watch for suspicious activity. Patrol your neighborhood. For God’s sake, do not close your eyes to this atrocity! ******************
Judson Cox is a political columnist from the mountains of North Carolina. He is quickly gaining recognition as one of the most popular and influential voices of his generation. Judson Cox is President of the Foundation for Conservative American Values and Editor In Chief of the North Carolina Conservative (soon to be North Carolina’s largest circulation newspaper).
The murders of this Coptic Christian family cry out to Heaven for vengeance.
ping, I will put it in my next column..
I am in total agreement with you. When I heard the news I said that it was probably Muslim vengeance that did this especially when I heard the father voiced his opinions over a chat room. This was even before the news came out with the speculation that it might be Muslim fanatics. I wish more attention was paid to the dilemma of Christians (and others) that live in Muslim countries. We hear dribs and drabs. OK we heard about the Chaldean archbishop getting kidnapped then released in Mosul. If American troops weren't in Iraq, we'd never hear any of the struggle of Christians there....although under Saddam, Christians weren't particularly bothered. The same is for Christians in Syria, under Baathist rule, Christians aren't living the high life, but are not particularly bothered...especially because the Assad's are Alawites, a heterodox Muslim sect that is despised by Sunnis (don't know what Shias think of them). In Egypt it happens to be quite bad for the Coptic Christians....there's a lot of detail on Coptic websites. Now the worst is Saudi Arabia. Christian services for foreigners working there are held in secret. I had a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia for a number of years. He is Catholic, and they had mass once in awhile in an apartment with all the curatins drawn etc etc just like the catacombs. I love the tolerant Muslim religion
BTTT
Important words.
Whether you're Moslem, Coptic, Christian, Jew, whatever.
NJ slaughter PING!
New Jersey is of course where the anthrax letters were mailed from, and home to one of the largest Muslim populations in America. Just business as usual for the so-called "religion of peace".
You are so right. I have been reading the Coptic Christian websites.
We must remain alert and vigilant. We cannot let this incident be swept into the dustbins of the news cycle.
They (FBI, CIA, Homeland Security) are going to whitewash this as they did TWA 800, in order to prevent panic and vigilantism.
It could be your town= your neighbors next.
Thank you. May we have a link to your column?
If it turns out muslims did do this, they should be force fed pork, made to drink pigs blood, raped publicly by dogs and then gutted.
Peas are good for your health.
Islamicists are not.
Yes. Most chilling, is it not?
I'd like to show some solidarity with these brethren.
We have the cells right here in our midst.
Have yet to hear from the MSN that the precise phrase is:
Hate Crime.
"The murders of this Coptic Christian family cry out to Heaven for vengeance."
Yes it does!! I hope the murderers are caught by the relatives or just plain citizens and killed BEFORE they go to trial and have some ACLU piece of slime try to get them life in prison instead of death.
The silence of NJ muslims is deafening. I havent heard even one outright condemnation of the murders.
Thank God New Jersey still has the death penalty. It will give me great pleasure to see these scum fry when they're caught.
How's this Quran passage for you RS??????
"Koran: (47:4) "Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers, smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly [on them]." "
Do you still love these satanists????
Apparently, they are going to ignore it. I haven't heard anything about it. This poor family!!
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/047.qmt.html
047.004
YUSUFALI: Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight),
PICKTHAL: Now when ye meet in battle those who disbelieve,
SHAKIR: So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve,
http://www.submission.org/suras/sura47.html
If you encounter (in war) those who disbelieve,
in fight, in battle, in battle, in war ...
It appears that the translation and interpretation of the Koran by the Iman that YOU choose is the same one the bastards who have done this have chosen in an attempt to rationalize THEIR positions.
You bet, I will post it on FR.
Yesterday's news.
re: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1322201/posts
No Jihad or Islamic attachment.
According to the paper (NY Daily News or NY Post) it wasa suicide.
A 50 year old gentleman with an Eastern European last name tied a rope to a pole, then around his neck while he was sitting in his car. He gave it some gas and his head popped right off.
The suicide theory was supported by notes at the scene, as wll as family and friends who were interviewed.
Oh, I know that. But check out the thread. They were ready to hang every Muslim or person who had that "appearance" ... without waiting for the truth.
You understand the "plight" of the Muslim citizens, yet you don't understand the anger of other American citizens, I don't understand.
I am not saying whether they are right or wrong, BUT Americans do have the right to be angry over what happened on 9/11, just as Jewish people have the right to be angry at Germans for the Holocaust. It's a HUMAN reaction and humans are not perfect.
Before you ask, I'll do the whole list:
1. Palestinians have the right to be angry at the Israelis (although the British had more to do with their situation);
2. Native Americans, and other aboriginal peoples throughout the world have the right to be angry at whatever colonial power subjugated them;
3. Ulster Catholics have the right to be angry with Ulster Protestants (although British influence created the situation here, too);
Do you get my drift?
However, being angry does not give ANYONE the right to assassinate, murder , terrorize, etc., their foe.
"No Jihad or Islamic attachment."
Don't you mean No Jihad or Islamic DEtachment ? :-)
This was a random robbery
/msm and the police
Had to try out my new tag...
It sure would help.
New Details Revealed About the Murders:
Armanious' body was found in a large bedroom in the family's Oakland Avenue home, while his wife's body was in the next room, according to the prosecutor's office.
The couple's older daughter, Sylvia, who would have turned 16 last Saturday, was found in the children's bedroom, while her 8-year-old sister's body was in the bathroom. Investigators have said that the killers broke through the door of the bathroom, where the younger child apparently had locked herself in.
Each victim had been bound and gagged and stabbed in the throat. They suffered other wounds, but none that would have killed them, according to the prosecutor's description.
As investigators searched for clues yesterday, leaders of Jersey City's Coptic community attempted to defuse tensions that sparked several scuffles at Monday's funeral services, when some mourners blamed the killings on Muslims.
"It's not doing anyone any good for us or the media to make these judgments without any evidence," said Emad Attaalla, a deacon at St. George and St. Shenouda Coptic Orthodox Church, where the family had been members.
"We need to let the police do their job and stop rushing to conclusions," added Attaalla, whose daughter was best friends with Sylvia Armanious.
"One day, they say this; one day, they say that," said the Rev. David Bebawy of St. George and St. Shenouda. "We are waiting. We don't know what's the reality."
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1106117460288930.xml
I love this quote from the Prosecutor's Offuce:
[B]In response to widespread speculation that the crime stemmed from religious fanaticism, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office noted that the killers left behind no hate messages, nor did they desecrate Coptic Christian artifacts that belonged to the family.[/B]
DOH! What about four bodies with slit throats? That's not a hate message in itself?
At whom do you think Americans have the "right" to vent their spleen?
And no, Jews do not have the "right" to be angry at Germans - they have the "right" to be angry at Nazis.
WHO do you think?
Yes the Jews do have the right to be angry at the Germans, because the Nazi sperpetrated the crimes, but those whostayed silent were complicit in it.
Why don't you think they do?
You're fond of quoting the German Lutheran Rev.(don't recall the name right now) when he spoke about the complicity of his fellow citizens.
Before you start, NO they haven't started coming for the Muslims in America yet, however, the Muslim terrorists have started coming for those they see as infidels.
Horse droppings.
2003: 155 anti-muslim crimes
2002: 170 anti-Muslim crimes
2001: 546 anti-Muslim crimes
And so forth. Back in that other 1300+ post thread, somewhere, there were links to a FBI or DOJ newsletter with descriptions of these incidents. Fortunately, the rate (incidents per year) is going down.
But I don't hear a whole lot of condemnation... Indeed, all I hear is approval of the idea.
Protesters Accuse Bush of 'Exterminating the Muslim Race'
dirtbiker: "I see no problem with this......"
Lurker: "We should be so lucky."
montag813: "we get to enjoy the site of hundreds of Muslims trampling each other to death"
meandog: "I would hope that they are made to bite down on pig entrails on their way to meet their perverted prophet (may piss be upon his name)."
Were the crimes sanctioned by the Government?
The numbers are DECREASING each year, 2001 was a "special" year in case you didn't notice.
How many were "Muslim on Muslim"?
How many "Muslim on Jew/Christian/non-Muslim" crimes?
I saved the best for last:
Anti-Muslim crimes by Americans (?) since 2001: 871
Anti-American crimes by Muslims since 2001: 3000 DEAD, THOUSANDS injured on 9/11/01
Were you born a Muslim or did you convert? Your zealotry seems to indicate a convert.
TROLL.
Jews DO have the right to be angry at those who watched the horror and did nothing. But of course, the rights of Jews don't usually concern islamic apologists.
And Americans have the right to be angry at Muslims for 9/11.
Bigots do contend that American Moslems should be punished for AlQueda, and attack anyone who says otherwise.
Wiser people decided to punish AlQueda, fortunately for the country.
He's a big islamic troll. On the thread about the Berkeley rally anti-terror rally he insinuated that the anti-terror rally was "anti-muslim". Why? Because the organizers had the audacity to bring a bombed out bus?
I fear the Armanious Family and their terrible deaths will be soon forgotten by MSM, while we see more articles about the Religion of Peace and how offended they are to be suspects.
Another voice from the Underground, with little to add, other than mischief.
Those of us on these threads who see this bloodthirsty cult for what it is should keep their story front and center. The Armanious slaughter should be front page stuff..but it isn't. And the spin goes on. In the name of the one true God, we need to keep their memory alive and their story alive. I fear though, that this is just the beginning. Once these dirtbag fanatics get away with what they have done, they will encroach on all of our neighborhoods. How long before America becomes like Europistan? Appeasing and turning the other cheek, while these maurading animals go unchecked?
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The same is true of muslim freepers.
Bump this to keep getting the word out. This story must not die.
You just reeled off the islamic roll call!
Add aturk, freedom44, f14pilot, nuconvert, pan yan's wife...
Part 2:
Are you saying that the 9/11 attacks were NOT carried out by Islamofascists as an Anti-American attack?
Who did it then? And who were the targets?
I can't wait for this answer, if there is one.
Thank you, Saundra.
The image of that sweetfaced little eight-year-old, awakening to terror with her sister being slaughtered in their bedroom...running into the bathroom and locking the door to save herself...the door being kicked down by the monsters, then them slitting her throat there on the bathroom floor...Lord! How awful.
Yet she and her horrid death get infinitely less newsprint than JonBenet Ramsey and Elizabeth Smart.
What the heck is wrong with the press in this country?
Only blue-eyed, blonde-haired little girls count?
How is this me "expressing approval" for "extermination of the Muslim 'race'"? I am just gleefully anticipating the Haj animals killing each other in their demented zeal to worship Satan. We don't have to lift a finger. Death is the way of Islam.
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