Posted on 10/22/2009 8:04:42 AM PDT by La Lydia
Late in September, a Muslim named Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, was arrested after placing an inert car bomb at a 60-story office tower in downtown Dallas. In March 2009, according to his indictment in U.S. District Court, Smadi declared his intention to wage war in the name of Islam. Yet characteristically, if dispiritingly, Muslims in the Dallas area are now expressing fears of a “backlash,” rather than taking the hard steps necessary to make sure there are no more jihad plotters who are inspired by Islamic teachings, as was Hosam Smadi. Smadi was very clear about the Islamic motivation for his plot: “I truly say it that [sic] my dream is to be among God’s soldiers, first for the support of Islam and my beloved Sheik Usama, may God give him long life.” He decried the “world plan to destroy Islam, Muslims, and to seize their lands for the benefit of the Jews and for the love of infidelity.”...
Yet despite the strong Islamic content of Smadi’s statements, Islamic spokesmen have – instead of honestly acknowledging Smadi’s Islamic motivation and offering steps toward reform of the elements of Islam that incited Smadi to violence – disingenuously pretended that Smadi’s Islam was incidental to his terror plot. Chief among those practicing this deception was Salam al-Marayati of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). Al-Marayati complained, according to the Dallas Morning News, that “when non-Muslims commit extreme acts, they are quickly dismissed as being crazy or weird or having some deep-seated emotional problem, and are not viewed as representative of an entire group of people.
But Muslim bad actors, he said, don’t get the same treatment. ‘When a Christian does something … that’s how it’s reported, that they happen to be a Christian,’ Al-Marayati said. ‘But if it’s a Muslim, it’s as if it’s the [Muslim] religion that’s driving it.”
Of course, it was manifestly the Muslim religion that was driving Smadi, but Al-Marayati said nothing about that. He pretended not to notice the elephant in the living room – the fact that people see the Muslim religion as driving terrorist acts not because of some inveterate “Islamphobia,” but because Islamic jihadists say that that’s what drives them. Just days ago the American-born jihadist Anwar al-Awlaki exhorted Muslims: “Whenever you see the word terrorism, replace it with the word jihad.” Jihad, of course, is a concept of Islamic theology. And al-Awlaki was not alone...Yet instead of confronting any of this, Dallas-area Muslims are whining about a “backlash” — something that has hardly ever materialized despite constant mainstream media focusing upon it after virtually every jihad arrest — and claiming victim status. “Being a Muslim in America today is not easy,” complained Hadi Jawad, a Dallas Muslim. “We feel under siege. There is open season on our faith. Muslims are painted with a broad brush.”...
I fully agree with the Imam. It is a shame that 99% of all muslims give the rest a bad name.
I fear Muslims in this country are going to learn the true meaning of the word Backlash if there is another AQ mass casualty attack
“It is a shame that 99% of all muslims give the rest a bad name.
So true.
I think you are right, then they will be begging
for protection from the very government they are
trying to bring down.
It would have been a different story , had they
routed out these fanatics as Americans.
Remember the Japanese Americans who volunteered
in large numbers, at least large enough to
create the 442 Regt Combat team to fight
if not in the Pacific at least in Europe,
even while their parents and siblings were being
held in internment.
I’m afraid these muslim statements are typical duplicity
of the Muslim cult. Between the communists and the muslims
they have learned to play America so well.
“Chief among those practicing this deception was Salam al-Marayati of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).”
WND has learned that just 13 days prior to his appointment by Napolitano, Alikhan joined the Muslim Public Affairs Council, or MPAC, for a special fundraiser called “Be the Change” to support what the group calls its innovative leadership development programs.
MPAC describes itself as “a public service agency working for the civil rights of American Muslims, for the integration of Islam into American pluralism, and for a positive, constructive relationship between American Muslims and their representatives.” The organization has eight chapters in California and one each in Texas, Kansas, Nevada and Iowa.
According to Discover the Networks, MPAC asserts the Hezbollah terrorist organization “could be called a liberation movement” and likens Hezbollah members to American “freedom fighters hundreds of years ago whom the British regarded as terrorists.”
Hezbollah distinguishes itself as second only to al-Qaida among terror groups responsible for killing the most Americans. It’s responsible for such deadly attacks as the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, which killed 299 servicemen, including 220 U.S. Marines.
Indeed, terrorism expert Steve Emerson notes that in a 1999 position paper, MPAC justified Hezbollah’s bombing of the American Marine barracks as a “military operation” rather than a terrorist attack.
The group’s senior adviser, Maher Hathout, explained: “Hezbollah is fighting for freedom, an organized army, limiting its operations against military people, this is a legitimate target against occupation. … this is legitimate, this is an American value – freedom and liberty.”
According to Discover the Networks, Hathout has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, which urges the creation of an Islam-dominated world. Hathout also espouses the radical brand of Islam known as Wahhabism, Discover the Networks documents.
In a November 1997 speech at the University of Pennsylvania, MPAC Co-Founder and Executive Director Salam Al-Marayati steadfastly justified his group’s refusal to call Hezbollah a terrorist organization. He also hailed the Hamas terrorist group as a political entity and a provider of social programs and “educational operations.”
Discover the Networks notes Marayati equated jihad with the sentiments of prominent American Revolution figure Patrick Henry, whose “Give me liberty or give me death” declaration was, according to Marayati, “a way of looking at the term jihad from an American perspective.”
MPAC also has taken an anti-Israel view, particularly after the start of the Palestinian intifada in September 2000. The intifada, or terrorist war, was initiated by late Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat after he turned down an Israeli offer of a Palestinian state in most of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem.
MPAC co-sponsored pro-Palestinian rallies in the fall of 2000, documents Discover the Networks, where speakers reportedly chanted, “Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews, the Army of Muhammad is coming for you!” The rally reportedly featured literature and placards calling for the annihilation of the Jews and Israel.
MPAC has called Israelis “the worst terrorists in the world,” lamenting the Jewish state is not found on the official State Department list of terrorist groups.
A few hours after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, MPAC co-founder Marayati told a Los Angeles talk radio audience: “If we’re going to look at suspects, we should look at the groups that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents, and I think we should put the state of Israel on the suspect list, because I think this diverts attention from what’s happening in the Palestinian territories so that they can go on with their aggression and occupation and apartheid policies.”...
In one sense Al-Marayati is correct. When a Christian commits some atrocity, he is apt to say, “The Devil made me do it” while the Mohammedan says, “Allah told me to do it.”
Jihad is as Jihad does or wants to do.
Yes. I doubt Texans will tolerate that kind of Islamic action. I wouldn’t have wanted to be a Muslim in, say, Irving had that guy’s bomb blown up that building and killed hundreds of people. Backlash wouldn’t begin to describe it.
You know I think you give Texas too much credit. Texas is pretty much like any other state. In the cities (Dallas, Houston, Austin), it's as Rat-Infested as San Francisco and Boston, and in the burbs and rural areas it's very blue.
It wasn’t me so much as erman. But I think there are still some real, stand-up men in Texas would can take care of things, and would if called on. Can’t say that for a number of other states.
You forget TX is a CONSERVATIVE state!
The media still won’t refer to the DC Sniper as a Muslim.
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