The Issue is Not Chechnya, It’s Islamist Terrorism

Now that we know who the bombers are and one of them is dead, and that they are Chechen Muslims, the media has gone into “Palestinian” mode insisting that we need to talk about the conflict in Chechnya.

We can talk about Chechnya, but the issue there and everywhere else is Islamic nationalism or Islamism. The bombers could have been from Chechnya or Mali or Bosnia or Iraq or Egypt or Afghanistan or any Muslim country where Islamists are active. And that’s most Muslim countries, especially after the Arab Spring.

There is a conflict in Chechnya and Iraq and Pakistan and Afghanistan and Thailand and Nigeria and the Philippines and India and Israel and France and a hundred other countries.

Where there is a sizable Muslim majority or even sizable minority, there is conflict.

Any talk about pressuring Russia into “resolving” or “appeasing” Chechen Islamists (at least the ones not allied with Russia) is a silly waste of time.

Russia isn’t Israel. It’s not going to be intimidated into making deals with terrorists. And talking about the demands of Chechen Islamists is a waste of time. Their demands are the same as the demands of all Islamists.

Islamism is Transnational. You cannot solve it locally. The situation in Israel has proven that. Giving in to territorial demands always fails because a transnational movement wants more than a few miles here and there. They want a regional and then a global Caliphate.

America had nothing to do with the conflict in Chechnya. That didn’t stop Dzhokar Tsarneav and Tamerlan Tsarneav from carrying out the mass murder of Americans.

To understand Dzhokar Tsarneav and Tamerlan Tsarneav is to understand that Islam is transnational.

“World view” is listed as “Islam” and his “Personal priority” is “career and money”.

He has posted links to videos of fighters in the Syrian civil war and to Islamic web pages with titles like “Salamworld, my religion is Islam” and “There is no God but Allah, let that ring out in our hearts”.

As I recall, shortly before the Benghazi attack, the Obama administration arranged for the early release from prison for Alamoudi (for plotting to kill the Saudi prince, who is now the King. I am having a memory lapse, but I believe that the Obama administration wanted Alamoudi to help negotiate some kind of arms deal in Libya to get the arms out of the Libyan militants hands and send them to the Turkish border. As I recall, these arms actually originated in Saudi Arabia because Obama didn’t want to ask Congress for the money to pay for the arms that were going to be put into the hands of Libyan militants.

I read that article about the Norquist connection to Alamoudi. I had actually almost forgotten about Norquist, whose firm once represented Alamoudi.

Sounds like this might be what you're remembering?

Why Is the Obama Administration Lobbying for the Early Release of a Convicted Terrorist?

The Forbes link referenced here is no longer live (I have retrieved a copy for archiving however), but it reproduces a July 8, 2011 AP piece by Matthew Barakat titled "Prosecutors ask to cut sentence of Muslim activist". Barakat included a few relevant details naming a few individuals involved in the case, which I will reproduce:

The documents explaining why prosecutors want to cut Alamoudi's sentence are under seal, and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Alexandria declined to say how many years they are seeking to cut from Alamoudi's term. But such reductions are allowed only when a defendant provides substantial assistance to the government. . .It is not entirely clear whether Alamoudi's cooperation is related to the current upheaval in Libya, but it is clear that Alamoudi had extensive connections with Libyan officials in the years before his arrest. Alamoudi made at least 10 trips to Libya between 2000 and 2003, according to court records, frequently meeting with government officials there. . .Alamoudi's lawyer, Henry St. John Fitzgerald, did not respond a request for comment Friday. . .The government's request for a reduced sentence must be approved by U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton. A hearing on the issue had been scheduled for Friday but Hilton canceled the hearing and said he will issue a written ruling based on the papers that have been submitted to him.

So the update to this headline might be, "Obama Administration Lobbied for Release of Boston Bomber Mosque Founder".

I typed a long response to you and somehow, it didn’t post. It’s gone, I don’t know where.

Anyway, Alamoudi’s name came up after the Benghazi attack. It was speculated that perhaps Alamoudi was helping Obama track down the armaments that had
sent to Libya that were still in the hands of the rebels, so that they could be shipped to Syria.

I’m not sure if that make sense, it could be something as simple as Obama complying with the demands of Morsi, Mohamed al Zawahiri, and the Muslim Brotherhood, to release all Islamic prisoners. Alamoudi could simply have been the first.

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