Muslim Response to Terror Falls Short - (MPAC equates Steve Emerson with islamic terrorists!)

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE.COM ^ | JULY 21, 2005 | ROBERT SPENCER

[CHARLITE]

Immediately after the 7/7 London bombings, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) condemned the bombers and terrorism in general. “Any individual or group that claims that these heinous actions serve as a redress for legitimate grievances,” MPAC thundered, “is dreadfully mistaken. MPAC condemns the exploitation of people and issues, regardless of the perpetrators and their justifications. This assault is unmistakably an act of terrorism, an attack against humanity.”

Words are hollow without deeds. Mindful of that, MPAC touts its “National Anti-Terrorism Campaign” (NATC): “It is our duty as American Muslims to protect our country and to contribute to its betterment.” MPAC calls for “religious awareness and education to create a strong Islamic environment that does not allow terrorism to be considered as a form of struggle in Islam.”

However, the Campaign forswears any intention to call on American Muslims to “‘spy’ on each other.” But that amounts to an admission that MPAC is not asking Muslims to report on suspicious activity in American mosques. How effective, then, can their anti-terror campaign be?

The rest of MPAC’s recommendations also appear to be more concerned about misbehavior by non-Muslim law enforcement officials in mosques than about the possibility of terrorist activity in those mosques. Its focus is misplaced in other ways as well. It recommends, for example, that “All activities within the mosque and Islamic centers should be authorized by legitimate, acknowledged leadership…” That sounds great until one realizes that if a mosque is involved in or sympathetic to terrorist activity, this is not likely because of unauthorized persons. It is much more likely that the jihadist sentiments will come from the mosque leadership — as per the Sufi leader Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani’s statement that eighty percent of American mosques were controlled by extremists. MPAC has dismissed Kabbani’s words as “an offhand remark…in some obscure presentation.” But in fact there was nothing offhand or obscure about what Kabbani said: he said this in a State Department Open Forum in 1999 after visiting 114 American mosques.

But the most notorious example of MPAC’s questionable focus is its war on terrorism expert Steve Emerson. At a conference on “Countering Religious & Political Extremism” on December 18, 2004, it distributed a booklet attacking not bin Laden, or Zawahiri, or Zarqawi, but Emerson. And in an appalling display of moral myopia, MPAC even implies that Emerson and others are equivalent to Islamic terrorists: “Without doubt Christian extremists such as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Franklin Graham or Jewish extremists such as Daniel Pipes and Steve Emerson need to be held accountable for their falsehoods and distortions. But let’s face it, if another terrorist attack occurs Christians and Jews will not be the ones rounded up or have their civil liberties effected.”

Let’s face it indeed. Muslims, rather than Christians and Jews, may be “rounded up” not just because of societal patterns of discrimination, but because they will be most likely be the ones who commit a terrorist attack. If Falwell or Pipes or Emerson were beheading and blowing people up in the name of their religion, this equation of “extremists” might be justified. But in reality it is a ghastly bit of character assassination.

Also, MPAC’s Salam Al-Maryati in 1996 actually equated today’s jihad terrorists with the Founding Fathers: “Most Islamic movements have been branded as terrorists as a result of the rising extremism from a handful of militants. American freedom fighters hundreds of years ago were also regarded as terrorists by the British.”

So where does MPAC really stand? MPAC could clear that up with forthright anti-terror actions to back up its words. Let it publish a plan for combating inflammatory anti-American, anti-Jewish, and anti-Christian rhetoric in American mosques. Let it develop a plan to blunt the force of the jihadist interpretation of the Koran and Islamic tradition among Muslims. If it directed its efforts to these and other genuine anti-terror efforts, the ringing words it issued in the wake of the London bombings would not ring hollow.

Mr. Spencer is director of Jihad Watch and author of Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West (Regnery -- a HUMAN EVENTS sister company) and Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith (Encounter); and editor of The Myth of Islamic Tolerance (Prometheus).

[CHARLITE]

"MPAC’s Salam Al-Maryati in 1996 actually equated today’s jihad terrorists with the Founding Fathers: “Most Islamic movements have been branded as terrorists as a result of the rising extremism from a handful of militants. American freedom fighters hundreds of years ago were also regarded as terrorists by the British.”

Well-l-llllll......I heard Alan Colmes say exactly this same thing less than a week ago. I'm not sure, but I believe that it was during a guest appearance by Dr. Bill Bennett on Hannity & Colmes. Dufus Colmes was trying to sound just so "smart" by reminding Bennett that our Lexington and Concord "minutemen" were the "terrorists" of their day........so, in Alan's partially atrophied brain, this kinda makes Mohammed Atta quite a patriot.

It is amazing the stuff that comes out of Alan Colmes mouth.......and that goes for most liberals today.
Char (:

[msnimje]

That is a crazy argument but I expect that for Alan Colmes.
Minutemen were fighting an oppressive government. Most of the governments in this world that oppress Muslim are, in fact, Muslim Governments. It sure as heck is not the British government which has bent over backwards for the Muslims who live there.

[Man50D]

Muslim Response to Terror Falls Short

The reasons why can be found in this article.

Islamic Scholar Warns U.S. of 'Two-Faced' Muslims

[Eagles6]

It is scary. They have been indoctrinated just as surely as mohammed atta. They fail to realize that they will be the first ones killed in the islamic revolution.

Western countries must put the squeeze on muslims living in their countries. Make life very uncomptfortable for them in the land of milk and honey. They know who these people are but in the pc approach they have nothing to gain by turning them in. They are more afraid of what the radicals will do than what the American or British criminal systems will do.

We need to profile every muslim and se asian. Look up their a$$#$. Is your elderly grandmother here illegally? Howzabout your cousin who works in the deli?

They need to be more afraid of what we will do. Doesn't seem like that American idea of assimilation is working with this group.

[Eagles6]

Good point.

[CyberAnt]

But .. the big difference they never see is that our "militants" were fighting for our FREEDOM - not to destroy England or take over their country by killing people. It's such a distinct difference .. you have to be brain dead not to see it.

[TheCrusader]

"Colmes was trying to sound just so "smart" by reminding Bennett that our Lexington and Concord "minutemen" were the "terrorists" of their day........"

Colmes has been reading some interesting history books. I've never read about the American Minutemen traveling abroad and murdering civilians to protest the foreign policies of the British Crown. My understanding is that they defended their families and fellow countrymen, on their own soil, from armed and hostile British soldiers who sought to make them part of the British Empire.

[backhoe]

To put it very bluntly--

I have long ceased having a care about what these creatures think, or feel, or fear, or even care about anymore:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating.
I am not joking-
-this is life versus death, freedom versus slavery that we are talking about.
Click the picture, go to the "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

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...and then, there's this little matter still on the books, waiting to be accounted for:

Where It's 9-11 All the Time...

Click the picture...

"Where it's nine-eleven all the time
and no Sun sets, and no clocks chime
where no voice speaks and no bird trills
the Moon hangs frozen o'er the hills
The winds are still, they seem to say,
Reflect, remember, stop to pray..."

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"Imam's fiery message speaks to radical British Muslims"

I wrote this some time ago, and while I wish I could change what is said, I cannot, nor will I, retract a single word of it:

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From my file, "Fire and Blood and Iron:"

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The entire West ( dare I say "the civilized World?" ) is locked in a fight to the death with militant Islam.

There will be no second-place winner, no "third way" solution-- it is March or Die time, folks.

It is Us versus an eighth-century "culture" of plunder & pillage, forced religious "conversions," and the mistreatment of women.

The sooner we face up to this fact realistically and quit dancing around PC talking-point nonsense about diversity and tolerance, the better off we'll all be.

We did not pick this fight- which really has roots in Jimmy Carter's appeasement in 1979 of militants- but we had damned well better see it for what it is, and be prepared to face it and finish it.

I'll put it in raw, personal terms-- I don't want Sharia law visited upon my women, and I don't want a goat-roper "culture" infesting my land.

I don't want their vile, nasty, loathsome weapons of mass destruction loosed upon my fair country, either.

They picked the fight, and now it is up to us to finish it- balls to the wall, hammer and anvil, fire and blood and iron... freedom is never, ever free, and the coin you pay it in is men's lives and tears and blood.

What we saw during Gulf War I was our military doctrine ( high tech ) versus Soviet doctrine ( throw a lot of low tech iron at the problem )-- and we all know how that turned out.

What we saw in the 3-Week War is Information-Tech,
( What some are calling it Hyperwarfare... )
or 21st Century warfare versus 20th Century...

What I would suggest, and call your attention to, is the fact that we, and Israel, are capable of waging 21st Century warfare, and the entire Arab world is not.

Proven fact, by recent events.

One more thing- this will be a war where we are all called to be warriors- so I very strongly suggest to you that the time has come to get hard, and stay hard... it really is the time for Fire and Blood and Iron...

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Also, MPAC’s Salam Al-Maryati in 1996 actually equated today’s jihad terrorists with the Founding Fathers: “Most Islamic movements have been branded as terrorists as a result of the rising extremism from a handful of militants. American freedom fighters hundreds of years ago were also regarded as terrorists by the British.”

The Communists, as in Saul Alinsky, Noam Chomsky, and Hillary, say the same thing in a way. They say that today's traitors will be considered revolutionary heros when "the Revolution" succeeds.

[tet68]

If it directed its efforts to these and other genuine anti-terror efforts, the ringing words it issued in the wake of the London bombings would not ring hollow.

Hollow words are only believed by hollow people,
democrats will believe every word.

[bitt]

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[backhoe]