The D.C. Sniper's Jihad

The New York Post ^ | 12/10/03 | Michelle Malkin

[alloysteel]

FROM the moment John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo were arrested in the Beltway-area sniper case last fall, the media and Muslim activists wanted us to believe that the serial killings had absolutely nothing to do with Islamic terrorism: * CNN downplayed Muhammad's religious conversion - calling him by his old name, John Allen Williams, when his identity was first revealed. Malvo was cast as a clueless dupe with no true convictions.

[alloysteel]

One could as easily say, Lee Harvey Oswald was a Communist agent, acting on his own to further the cause of world domination by the Communists. In fact, much of the American public and the Democrat party were held paralyzed by the possibility until the Soviet Union collapsed, so the assault on JFK 40 years ago was a relative success.

John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo were looking for the same kind of notoriety, and support of the Islamofascists' cause, by making people fearful of what the maverick and quasi-independent jihadist may do, unexpectedly and with no apparent provocation. Surrender and placate the irrational men with guns, and maybe no harm will come to you. Or not very much.

[Kenton]

* Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) argued: "There is no indication that this case is related to Islam or Muslims."

Translation: This guy wasn't one of ours. We didn't authorize or fund this one. He was waging holy war for Islam without our approval. Please. The guys are black, can't we concentrate on that instead of the connection with Islam? Really. We are a religion of peace. Except for the Jihadis that we are supporting, of course, but these guys were freelancers. And they were black. Black guys with guns... woooooo, scary stuff, huh?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Their demands are non-negotiable.

[TastyManatees]

The major media outlets have been pontificating for endless hours about the possible motivations of some man for killing his pregnant wife, but when confronted with two actual Islamic terrorists murdering people around the nation's capitol, they clam up for fear of angering the activistas. Take a look at the sick drawings of the younger of the two and make up your own mind as to what his motiviations were.

Tasty Manatees

[MosesKnows]

Stop telling me Islam had nothing to do with it.

Islam had nothing to do with it.