When the authorities deny terrorism

JewishWorldReview.com ^ | 2-08-05 | Daniel Pipes

[JWR_Editor]

Downplaying of radical Islamic ritual murder of Christian Egyptian in Jersey City, N.J. is part of a much wider problem --- one that's been ongoing for years

Connecting the dots

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

This case makes me ill! I can't believe they still have not made the general public aware of this murder case.
Why won't they just admit it was terrorists?

[Honestfreedom]

Much easier to blame drugs, guns etc. than people. Just like the Jayson Williams murder case where they largely convinced the jury that the gun went off by itself and it was responsible not Williams. Much like Rush's parodies of blaming SUVs as if they drive themselves.

[sarah_f]

"Because terrorism has much greater implications than prescription drugs going awry, road rage, lunatics acting berserk, or freak industrial accidents. Those can be shrugged off. Islamist terrorism, in contrast, requires an analysis of jihadi motives and a focus on Muslims, steps highly unwelcome to authorities."

"And so, police, prosecutors, and politicians shy away from stark realities in favor of soothing and inaccurate bromides."

"This ostrich-like behavior carries heavy costs; those who refuse to recognize the enemy cannot defeat him. To pretend terrorism is not occurring nearly guarantees that it will recur."

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Prophetic words...

[tkathy]

If the MSM appeasers let the monsters get away with these murders, far worse will be coming down the pike.

[Happy2BMe]

GUBMINT DENYING THEY ARE DENYING (ISLAMIC) TERRORISM - RIGHT HERE IN THE U.S.A. - ping.

(Hey - if we just keep denying it - it, maybe it will just go away!)

(Or is that the migrant invasion we're denying - hard to keep track of all the denying going on.)

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DENYING (ISLAMIC) TERRORISM

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Anyone following the investigation into the mid-January slaughter of the Armanious family (husband, wife, two young daughters), Copts living in Jersey City, N.J., knows who the presumptive suspects are: Islamists furious at a Christian Egyptian immigrant who dares engage in Internet polemics against Islam and who attempts to convert Muslims to Christianity.

The authorities, however, have blinded themselves to the extensive circumstantial evidence, insisting that "no facts at this point" substantiate a religious motive for the murders.

Somehow, the prosecutor missed that all four members of this quiet family were savagely executed in the ritualistic Islamist way (multiple knife attacks and near-beheading); that Jersey City has a record of Islamist activism and jihadi violence, and that the www.paltalk.com website carried a threat against Hossam Armanious: "We are going to track you down like a chicken and kill you."

Law enforcement seems more concerned to avoid an anti-Muslim backlash than to find the culprits.

This attitude of denial fits an all-too-common pattern. I previously documented a reluctance in nearby New York City to see as terrorism the 1994 Brooklyn Bridge ("road rage" was the FBI's preferred description) and the 1997 Empire State Building shootings ("many, many enemies in his mind," said Rudolph Giuliani). And the July 2002 LAX murders were initially dismissed as "a work dispute" and the October 2002 rampage of the Beltway snipers went unexplained, leaving the press to ascribe it to such factors as a "stormy [family] relationship."

These instances are part of a yet-larger pattern.

• The 1990 murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane by the Islamist El Sayyid Nosair was initially ascribed by the police to "a prescription drug for or consistent with depression."

• The 1999 crash of EgyptAir 990, killing 217 - by a co-pilot not supposed to be near the aircraft's controls at that time who repeated 11 times "I rely on God" as he wrenched the plane down - went unexplained by the National Transportation Safety Board.

• The 2002 purposeful crash of a small plane into a Tampa high-rise by bin Laden-sympathizer Charles Bishara Bishop went unexplained; the family chimed in by blaming the acne drug Accutane.

• The 2003 murder and near-decapitation in Houston of an Israeli by a former Saudi friend who had newly become an Islamist found the police unable to discern "any evidence" that the crime had anything to do with religion.

Nor is this a problem unique to American authorities.

• The 1993 attack on foreign guests dining at the Semiramis Hotel in Cairo, killing five, accompanied by the Islamist cry "Allahu Akbar," inspired the Egyptian government to dismiss the killer as insane.

• The 2000 attack on a bus of visibly Jewish schoolchildren near Paris by a hammer-wielding North African yelling "You're not in Tel-Aviv!" prompted police to describe the assault as the result of a traffic incident.

• The 2003 fire that gutted the Merkaz HaTorah Jewish secondary school in a Paris suburb, requiring 100 firefighters to douse the flames, was described by the French minister of the interior as being merely of "criminal origin."

• The 2004 murder of a Hasidic Jew with no criminal record as he walked an Antwerp street near a predominantly Muslim area left the Belgian authorities stumped: "There are no signs that racism was involved."

I have cited 13 cases here and provide information on further incidents on my weblog. Why this repeated unease acknowledging Islamist terrorism by the authorities, why the shameful denial?

And for that matter, why a similar unwillingness to face facts about right-wing extremists, as in the 2002 murder by a cursing skinhead of a Hasidic Jew outside a kosher pizzeria in Toronto, which the police did not find to rate as a hate crime? Because terrorism has much greater implications than prescription drugs going awry, road rage, lunatics acting berserk, or freak industrial accidents. Those can be shrugged off. Islamist terrorism, in contrast, requires an analysis of jihadi motives and a focus on Muslims, steps highly unwelcome to authorities.

And so, police, prosecutors, and politicians shy away from stark realities in favor of soothing and inaccurate bromides. This ostrich-like behavior carries heavy costs; those who refuse to recognize the enemy cannot defeat him. To pretend terrorism is not occurring nearly guarantees that it will recur.

[spodefly]

BTTT

[broadsword]

Ping.......

[broadsword]

Don't forget the Muslim soldier who fragged and shot his officers while they were sleeping, and the Muslim FBI agents who refused to wiretap other Muslim Terrorists.

[USF]

Thanks for the ping Broadsword.

I see you have found the "Who Killed the Jersey City Coptic Family: Robbers? Islamists?" thread too, with the excellent article at jewishvoiceandopinion.com.

[SheLion]

Congressman refuses to probe illegal alien
terrorist cell in his own district

January 28, 2005 - Despite widespread news reports linking Moroccan Muslims to worldwide terrorism, Florida Congressman Ric Keller (R-8-FL) has declined to call for a formal FBI or Government Accounting Office (GAO) investigation of Orlando Homeland Security official Mary Schneider's concrete evidence of green card bribery of immigration officials by illegal Moroccan Muslims linked to a terrorist cell in Keller's central Florida congressional district--the hub of Sunshine State tourism and airline traffic.

Our interview with the Orlando immigration adjudication officer revealed that Keller, who is a member of the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security told Mary Schneider "your problem is not a matter within the purview of a federal agency." Full Story

"It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain,and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims...

[broadsword]

"It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain,and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims...

Furthermore, although the enemy is not EVERY Muslim individual. THE ENEMY IS ISLAM. THE ENEMY IS THE KORAN. THE ENEMY IS THE HADITH. THE ENEMY IS SHARIAH.

These things all call for your forced submission to Islam. These things call for the destruction of your church. These things all call for the destruction of the Constitution. These things all call for the destruction of America. These things all call for the destruction of democracy and freedom around the globe.

AND THERE IS NO TELLING WHEN THIS EVIL "RELIGION" WILL METASTACIZE IN THE MIND OF ANY ONE OF ITS "MODERATE" FOLLOWERS, TO THE DESTRUCTION OF MORE INNOCENT AMERICANS!

[broadsword]

Yep. Read it, printed it and am passing it around.

[ladyinred]

This case makes me ill! I can't believe they still have not made the general public aware of this murder case. Why won't they just admit it was terrorists?

Ditto your post x 10! They have done this over and over, insulting our intelligence and covering up the terrorism among us for some reason! Makes me furious!

[Fred Nerks]

As an Australian citizen my opinions on immigration may not carry much weight in the US, however it's obvious from local experience, that we give citizenship to people who have made it abundantly clear they do not wish nor intend to assimmilate nor abide by our laws. In every mosque, the imam tells his congregation they need only to heed the law of allah. (shaira.)
Yet as citizens, they are entitled to demand every benefit that we enjoy, fought and paid for over many generations. Thus it transpires that a fanatical muslim, be it an individual or in a group, can carry out crimes such as ritual murder in the US, gang-rapes and 'poofter-bashing' in Australia and be treated as any other criminal, regardless of the obvious signs that the crimes are the direct result of islamic cleric-driven hatred.
Australia and the US are not alone. Europe also suffers terribly from indescriminate immigration.

[Fred Nerks]

When did a government of any stripe ever admit they might have made a terrible mistake allowing indiscriminate immigration? What was the driving force behind this recent phenomenon? Was it the UN? When our family migrated to Australia post-war, no one could apply for citizenship for 5 years. We were required to go through a thorough back-ground check, and provide proof of medical soundness. Obviously, Australia was still a sovereign nation then, able to select and make its own decisions about who came to this country. How and why was this right taken away? Why are we required now to accept immigrants on a quota system? Who makes the rules? Did the US sign an agreement or take part in some UN treaty that meant your government gave away its right to choose? Just asking...

[Salem]

Pipes 'Ping!'

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AMERICA AT WAR
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[dervish]

It seems that while the US is willing to fight the [wrongly named] WOT outside the US, within the US we can't even acknowledge it.

Isn't that the same problem we had after the first WTC attack?

[Happy2BMe]

I believe if we closed the border it would help prevent another 9/11.

[dervish]

We should certainly have had a moratorium on immigration for several years till we got our act together on screening potential terrorists. Especially from Arab and Muslim countries.

Everyone talks about the Mexican border but for terrorism I am worried about the Canadian border too. The Millenium plot was from Canada.