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The Boston Jihadis and the Left’s War on the Police
FrontPage Magazine ^ | June 4, 2015 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 06/05/2015 8:05:05 AM PDT by SJackson

The Boston Jihadis and the Left’s War on the Police

Posted By Robert Spencer On June 4, 2015 @ 12:30 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 56 Comments

enpegues060215401026640x360 [1]In Usaama Rahim, the Left’s war on the police and the Islamic State’s war on cartoonists of Muhammad have come together. No surprise: they were always in service of the same goals.

Usaama Rahim died Tuesday morning in Boston after being shot dead by agents of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. The victim’s brother, the prominent moderate imam Ibrahim Rahim, presented the tragic story stoically, with trust in Allah and a request for prayers:

Your prayers are requested:

This morning while at the bus stop in Boston, my youngest brother Usaama Rahim was waiting for the bus to go to his job. He was confronted by three Boston Police officers and subsequently shot in the back three times. He was on was on his cell phone with my dear father during the confrontation needing a witness. His last words to my father who heard the shots were:

I can’t breathe!

While at the hospital, Usaama Rahim died!

From Allah we come, and to Allah we return.

Imam Ibrahim Rahim

“I can’t breathe!” Ring a bell? It certainly did to Leftist and Islamic supremacist activists who saw Usaama Rahim as their next Eric Garner or Michael Brown, another sainted victim they could use to defame police and limit their powers. Islamic supremacist Linda Sarsour complained [2] that by charging that Rahim had been involved in jihad terror plotting, activities “have added a national security component to divide and conquer the movement. At the end of the day, a Black man was shot on a bus stop on his way to work and we should treat this like any other case of police violence. All we want is answers to our questions.”

Zahra Billoo of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said flatly [2] that the shooting of Rahim “was murder – murder of a black Muslim man.” Her Hamas-linked CAIR colleague Dawud Walid: “I’m not quick to believe the FBI’s narrative about who was supposedly trying to join [ISIS]. I have no reason to believe them in this case. However even if that was true, that doesn’t justify excessive force – the family states that he was shot in the back. Moreover, he was on the phone with his dad as law enforcement approached him then fatally shot him.”

There was just one problem with the tearjerker scenario of an innocent Muslim, a black man, talking on the phone with his beloved father when he was shot in the back by cowardly, racist police, setting him up to echo the now-iconic words of Eric Garner as he struggled for his last breath: it wasn’t true.

After viewing surveillance video of the incident [3], Darnell Williams, president and chief executive of urban league of Eastern Massachusetts, contradicted Ibrahim Rahim’s account: “What the video does reveal to us very clearly is that the individual was not on the cellphone, the individual was not shot in the back and that the information reported by others that that was the case was inaccurate.” Imam Abdullah Faaruuq was likewise skeptical of Ibrahim Rahim’s story, albeit less definite: “I don’t think that he was shot in the back. … However we couldn’t see clearly at all. It was very far away. We can’t be clear as to what transpired. We can’t say what happened. We weren’t there. We do see a very vague video that is not clear as to what transpired. It wasn’t at a bus stop. He wasn’t shot in the back and there is not detail enough on the video to tell us exactly what happened.”

Further complicating the scenario of Usaama Rahim as victim of racist police brutality have been the revelations of his conversations with his fellow jihadi, Dawud Sharif Wright, aka Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, formerly known as David Wright. Rahim told Abdul Khaliq: [4] “I just got myself a nice little tool. You know it’s good for carving wood and like, you know, carving sculptures…and you know…” It was a 15-inch-long Ontario Spec Plus Marine Raider Bowie fighting knife with a ​9.75 inch blade.

Rahim told Abdul Khaliq about his plan to behead someone outside of Massachusetts — apparently Pamela Geller: CNN called her for comment [5] on the fact that she was the target. So apparently Rahim and Abdul Khaliq were not just inspired in a general way by the Islamic State, but specifically by their call to murder those who dare defy Sharia blasphemy laws and draw Muhammad.

On Tuesday, however, Rahim changed his mind, and decided to strike police in Massachusetts instead: “Yeah I’m going to be on vacation right here in Massachusetts… I’m just going to go ah go after them, those boys in blue, Cause, ah, its the easiest target and, ah, the most common is the easiest for me.”

He did go after them, thereby earning for himself martyr status from the likes of Linda Sarsour and Zahra Billoo. And truly, Usaama Rahim does indeed deserve to be remembered, but not as a victim of racist, trigger-happy, Islamophobic police. Rather, he should be remembered as the point of convergence between the Left’s war on the police and the Islamic supremacist jihad on the freedom of speech.

The ultimate goal of the Left’s war on the police is blood in the streets, and the collapse and downfall of American society. Islamic supremacists hope to capitalize upon that chaos by overseeing the imposition of Islamic law – while any who resist are kept silent by “hate speech” codes that forestall any criticism of the new societal system. Thus the war on the police and the war on free speech converge: they’re both about breaking down the old authorities and the old system, and installing a radically new order.

Fanciful? Far-fetched? Sure. But violence committed to that end, and the burning of entire cities, isn’t far-fetched at all: it’s present-day reality. We are in days of testing and trial. Will we defend free society, or slip into the darkness of chaos and violence that the Ibrahim Rahims and Linda Sarsours are trying so hard to bring to us? Will our elected leaders stand up to these forces of disintegration, despair, and destruction, or hold fast?

The answer will be different for each one of them, and for each one of us.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: boston; bostonjihadis; police; waroncops

1 posted on 06/05/2015 8:05:05 AM PDT by SJackson
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2 posted on 06/05/2015 8:05:24 AM PDT by SJackson (an emotional nation, not a rational nation. You work from your gut and not your mind, BHO on Israel)
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3 posted on 06/05/2015 8:06:33 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SJackson

“Victimhood” is the first cry of losers...


4 posted on 06/05/2015 8:13:02 AM PDT by GOPJ (If the MSM stops lying about conservatives, we'll stop telling the truth about them.)
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To: SJackson
The Boston Jihadis

the Arena Football League is still around?


5 posted on 06/05/2015 8:22:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Obama has a lot of blood on his hands. Upshot.


6 posted on 06/05/2015 8:41:17 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: SJackson
Will we defend free society, or slip into the darkness of chaos and violence that the Ibrahim Rahims and Linda Sarsours are trying so hard to bring to us?

I am not at all optimistic as to the answer.

7 posted on 06/05/2015 8:50:53 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: SJackson

The left hates the local police and so do the jihadis. Big surprise!


8 posted on 06/05/2015 9:02:12 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: SJackson

FYI on “Imam Abdullah Faaruuq”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2013/05/04/problem-not-with-boston-muslims-but-with-radical-leaders/LqExH1l9B9FvleIWhEdcxH/story.html
Problem is not with Boston Muslims but with radical leaders
May 05, 2013

Lisa Wangsness and meghan e. Irons cite only me as a critic of the Islamic Society of Boston, whose Cambridge mosque was attended by at least one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers (“Praying for peace — and understanding,” Page A1, April 27). In fact there have been others who have recognized the radical nature of the mosque leadership. The situation today is far different from the time Mayor Menino agreed to subsidize the building of the Islamic Society of Boston’s Saudi-funded mosque, and when many in the Jewish community embraced the mosque’s leaders...

...A few months ago, Northeastern University dismissed Imam Abdullah Faaruuq, a frequent spokesperson for the Islamic Society of Boston, from his role as Muslim student chaplain after we released a video of Faaruuq urging Muslim students at Northeastern to support terror suspect Tarek Mehanna, and telling a gathering at a mosque that “it’s time to pick up the gun and the sword and go out and do your job.”

...Charles Jacobs
President
Americans for Peace and Tolerance
Boston

The Counter Jihad Report
http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/abdullah-faaruuq/

Video Exposes Northeastern University’s Muslim Chaplain as an Islamist Extremist
Posted on September 7, 2012
By CHARLES JACOBS:

“Our video shows that there is a culture of extremism at the Islamic Society of Northeastern University (ISNU) – the Muslim student group on campus under the leadership of its spiritual advisor, Imam Faaruuq,” said human rights activist Dr. Charles Jacobs, APT President...
Islamic Extremism @ Northeastern University
https://youtu.be/50YgDPSheVk
Published on Sep 5, 2012


9 posted on 06/05/2015 9:30:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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