But if they had been successful it might have been a different story.
I have to wonder...How many moslems, here and abroad, look at this very lack of "tribal retaliation" as a sign of weakness or even of the acceptance of dhimmitude on our part? As a sign we 'feel ourselves to have been subdued' as the koran puts it?
No, I am not suggesting there SHOULD be violent retaliation against any passing moslem-that's (group guilt, tribal politics) not part of Western tradition-but I do think it's fair to wonder just how many moslems perceive our very forbearance. We see it as a "reason to be proud", but how do they see it? I expect second or third generation "cultural moslems" see it quite differently than do recent somalis foolishly allowed in-and again, while I do not want to see mass attacks on moslems in this country, I do wonder if the lack of such mob action doesn't encourage more 'amateur jihadism'. How would (eg) somali moslems in their own countries respond to similar attacks plotted by Christians or Jews existing in their countries? That's what third world moslems understand, and what they see as the correct behavior, so how are they perceiving our forbearance? (And let us hope we never learn first hand if your hypothesis is correct...)
But when six Muslims in America were arrested for plotting to kill as many American soldiers as possible, there have been no killings. No mob action. No riots. No mosques have been torched...
Don’t worry, we will get around to it, keep it up.
I doubt it. There were few attacks on Muslims in this country after the WTC and Pentagon attacks.