This map is now outdated as more Mosque's have moved in around the United States.
Posted on 12/12/2005 5:36:27 AM PST by SJackson
The New Republic's ridiculous claim about U.S. adherents to the religion of peace.
“It’s startling,” proclaims Spencer Ackerman in a New Republic cover story dated today, “how few American Muslim extremists there actually are.” The article, “Religious Protection: Why American Muslims haven’t turned to terrorism,” contrasts American Muslims with their European counterparts, whom he finds have turned to terrorism.
American Muslims are not terrorists? What is Ackerman thinking?
In an article and blog just this past week, I reported on fifteen American Muslim converts who have either engaged in terrorism or been convicted of trying to do so. In a follow-up piece, I listed another fifteen American converts to Islam suspected, arrested, or indicted of terrorism. That’s thirty converts. I have not counted the immigrant Muslims and their offspring implicated in terrorism, but here is some information that hints to their numbers:
With the exception of the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, notes al-Qaeda authority Rohan Gunaratna, all major terrorist attacks of the past decade in the West have been carried out by immigrants. A closer look finds that these were not just any immigrants but invariably from a specific background: Of the 212 suspected and convicted terrorist perpetrators during 1993-2003, 86 percent were Muslim immigrants and the remainder mainly converts to Islam. “In Western countries jihad has grown mainly via Muslim immigration,” concludes Robert S. Leiken, a specialist on immigration and national security issues, in an important new monograph, Bearers of Global Jihad: Immigration and National Security after 9/11.
Or, to quote a conclusion Khalid Durán and I reached in 2002: “In its long history of immigration, the United States has never encountered so violence-prone and radicalized a community as the Muslims who have arrived since 1965.”
Applying that 86 percent figure just to the United States implies some 175 immigrant Muslims associated with terrorism. Let’s round it off to 200 cases in all of American Muslims who have “turned to terrorism,” which strikes me as a reasonable figure.
Ackerman waves these hundreds away as irrelevant: “It’s true that extremist messages exist in American Muslim communities, and there have been a few instances of American Muslims becoming terrorists. Those extremely rare cases, however, are far better explained by individual pathology than by rising Islamic militancy due to group disaffection.” Yes, 200 persons out of a population of some 3 million American Muslims is “extremely rare,” but the same low ratio applies in Europe, where terrorists are also “extremely rare.”
In short, Ackerman’s premise is flawed from the start; and so, unsurprisingly, is the analysis that follows, namely his claim that better social and economic opportunities open to American Muslims as well as “America’s ability to accommodate Islam itself” account for the supposedly benign situation in the United States. Rather, the differences between U.S. and European Muslims have less to do with their respective social virtues than with their Muslim populations. America’s Muslims tend to be engineers and doctors; Europe’s tend to be factory hands and street sweepers.
Ackerman thinks American Muslims have launched few terrorist attacks; in fact, they have engaged in or attempted many since 1980. They are so little known because prosecutors avoid applying the terrorist label and the media ignores them, but they are there. Some twelve attacks involving fatalities occurred on American soil pre-9/11, in addition to many others that did involve deaths or were thwarted. Since 9/11, there have been a number of attacks involving American Muslim terrorists, including:
· July 2002 - Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet’s · October 2002 – The Beltway Snipers’ multiple murders in the Washington, D.C., area.
· March 2003 – Hasan Akbar’s fragging of his two officers (at an overseas U.S. military base).
· August 2003 - Mohammed Ali Alayed’s murder of Ariel Sellouk in Houston.
· January 2005 - The Armanious family massacre.
· May-July 2005 – The Jam’iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh robbery spree to fund future terrorist activities.
Finally, worrisome signs exist of a growing radicalization among American-born children of immigrants. Space constraints keep from listing the many instances here, but two recent cases come to mind: Ahmed Omar Abu Ali (convicted in November of belonging to al-Qaeda and plotting to kill George W. Bush; he could be sentenced to life in prison) and Ali Tamimi (jailed for life in July for recruiting volunteers to go to terrorist training camps abroad). Parents worry about this trend; Achmed Habib, who identifies himself as an American Muslim father, wrote to an Islamist forum asking for help dissuading his son from seeking martyrdom as his two brothers did before him.
A tad less self-congratulation and a lot more research and worrying is in order, Mr. Ackerman.
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Bump for reality.
Lock em allah up and ship em back to hell where they came from. Either that or stop the discrimination against the killer death cultists from the Manson family! And while they're at it force the immigration of Jivaro headhunters just to give the Moozies a bit of competition!
The Politically Correct in this country (as in Europe) wear the skirts behind which the Jihadis hide and plot their murder.
Charles Bishop/Bisahra, Johnny Lindh-Walker, Malvo & the other guy (gay DC sniper duo), and Jose Padilla come to mind.
How far can we take these crimes? Can we include non-US born muslims living in America who have acted out against America?
Who mailed the anthrax?
This map is now outdated as more Mosque's have moved in around the United States.
Come to think of it, that also describes John McCain.
"Palestine is the wrong name for their State. It should be called Anarchy."—FReeper sgtbono2002
"Then let's wait and see what the Arabs do after they take Gaza. There's nothing like Arab reality to break up a Jewish fantasy."—FReeper Noachian
A student told his professor he was going to "Palestine" to "fight for freedom, peace and justice,"—Orwellian leftist code words that mean "murder Jews."
The Nature Of Bruce ~
Religion of Peace bump
Islam is the enemy
This guy gets it.
Agree 100%!
Active terrorists, or cowardly, supportive terrorists- but Islam is terror. It is destruction. It is death and horror. The news proves that daily.
It's not that there are few "American Islamic terrorists", it's that there are millions of well-armed American anti-terrorists.
It's actually very simple. It took the Islamist 30 +/- years to set up France for it's Jihad. They are now working on the Balkans as I have witnessed first hand their techniques and cataloged their phases. They are working the U.S. and as in all cases, they don't launch a full Jihad until the state or country has been fully saturated and checked as ready for Jihad. However, in America for the Muslims it would be open season. They are however, putting Imams in the prisons making converts. They are setting up disinformation groups to plant disfavor with our government, they are separating the races and will try to exploit the economic separation between the have's and have nots within the country.
Islam is a violent cult, and make no mistake about it. There is NOTHING peaceful about Islam except except when they want to give the illusion of being peaceful because it fits their purpose. I am not Democrat nor Republican, as I don't trust the Agenda of either. That's another squeeze play down the road. Right now, the Muslim attack is real and on-going. We have a war........
Tom
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