Posted on 06/04/2007 5:44:56 AM PDT by SJackson
In August 2006, Russell “Mohammed” Defreitas, a retired employee of New York’s JFK Airport, confided to an acquaintance his “vision” for a jihad terror attack that, he said, would make the attack on the World Trade Center seem small. The plot involved placing bombs in jet fuel lines in the airport, thereby destroying the airport and probably killing thousands.
Besides the mayhem and economic devastation this plot would cause, Defreitas seemed to have been fond of it because of its symbolic value: “Anytime you hit Kennedy, it is the most hurtful thing to the United States,” he told his acquaintance, who was a man whom he thought he knew from a mosque in Brooklyn and who was actually an informant. “To hit John F. Kennedy, wow...They love John F. Kennedy like he’s the man... If you hit that, the whole country will be in mourning. It’s like you can kill the man twice.” Despite having gained U.S. citizenship, Defreitas, a Guyanese by birth, clearly hates his new country, and wishes to demoralize it in service of its enemies.
Defreitas and his fellow plotters were arrested Friday, with their plot nowhere near completion. One of the other plotters was Abdul Kadir, an imam and a former member of the Guyanese parliament. According to the Wall Street Journal, the plotters were not members of Al-Qaeda, but had some connection with a little-known jihadist group in Trinidad, Jamaat al Muslimeen. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Knox said of Defreitas: “He is the self-proclaimed brainchild of an elaborate plot to blow up JFK airport. His stated goal was to kill as many people as possible.”
Early news reports noted, “the arrests mark the latest in a series of homegrown terrorism plots that targeted high-profile American landmarks.” And indeed, Knox’s words were an eerie echo of the Fort Dix jihad terror plot that was unmasked in May, in which the plotters hoped to kill as many soldiers as possible. The Fort Dix and JFK plotters are evidently among the thirteen percent of Muslims in the United States who support suicide attacks in some circumstances, and these two cases, one following so closely on the other, raise all the more urgently the questions of what American officials can and must do in order to minimize the possibility that one day, one plot like these will succeed.
These plots show again that one need not be a member of Al-Qaeda or some other recognized terror organization in order to plan a jihad terror attack. All one needs is the conviction that the supreme deity wants those who believe in him to commit mass murder, and will reward them for doing so. Assuring us that the vast majority of believers don’t believe this is not enough, as long as that majority does little or nothing to root out the minority who do believe it, and to resist the spread of such views. After the Fort Dix plot was uncovered, mainstream media coverage was much preoccupied with Muslim fears of “backlash” attacks that in reality never materialized, and not preoccupied at all with asking Muslims what they intended to do to make sure that Muslims in the U.S. were taught against the jihad ideology that many of them manifestly hold. About the Pew Research Center poll of American Muslims that showed significant support for suicide bombing and Al-Qaeda, I wrote last week:
Almost six years after 9/11, no pressure is coming either from the mainstream media or law enforcement for Muslim groups in the United States to institute comprehensive educational programs against jihadism in their mosques and schools. This poll, however, shows how much such programs are needed – as well as a national debate about how these groups should be regarded if they refuse or fail to implement such programs.
The JFK plot only makes those programs, and that debate, all the more urgent. Russell Defreitas hated his adoptive land and believed that Islam commanded him to bring it to its knees. What was he learning in the mosque in Brooklyn where he believed he had seen the government informant before? Do any law enforcement officials know the answer to that question? As long as American Muslim groups do not formally renounce the jihad ideology of Islamic supremacism that would destroy American Constitutional government and replace it with Shari’a, and do not expel those who refuse to renounce these beliefs in word and deed, American mosques must be monitored, and American Muslims called to account for harboring this menace.
But before these and other necessary actions can be taken, some mainstream media figures will have to have the courage to pierce the fog of political correctness that envelops us and call for such measures. Those who are looking for an opportunity to demonstrate their courage and patriotism have a superb chance to do so now.
And if Spencer really believes this will occur, I have a Kansas swamp to sell him.
They would have to "take out" a different Kennedy to really pee off the Brie eating lefties. /sarc
I think we could save ourselves a lot of trouble by rounding up Muslims and asking them if they love or hate the US. If they hate it they should be deported and never allowed back.
>>American mosques must be monitored, and American Muslims called to account for harboring this menace.<<
And Saudi Arabia must be called to account for subsidizing the homicidal plans hatched and nurtured in these mosques throughout the West. (Fat chance of that happening, eh?)
End all immigration from Muslims lands. Begin deporting all Muslims in the U.S. NOW.
“These killers are NOT HOME GROWN.
Bears repeating.”
Not that it matters. You can be born and raised in this country and still be far from “home grown”. That’s one of the MANY problems with a multi-culti society. Grow up here in an Islamic community and you may as well have grown up in Saudi Arabia.
So the black nationalists who hate the USA have joined with the murdering hate-filled jihadis (a good match) to try to destroy the USA. No surprise. It’s a good bet that the most radical jihadis are the recent converts.
Making nice hasn’t worked. Years of “affirmative action” and “hate crime” legislation hasn’t worked. Giving special privileges hasn’t worked either. Harassing people for putting ham sandwiches next to people who don’t eat ham won’t save the USA from the next big one that the throat-slitters are cooking up.
So let’s open wide ALL our borders and invite worldwide immigration into the USA in this multi-cultural homicidal world? Homeland securuty? Insanity...
I say deport all illegals and suspicious muslims who would do us harm. Cut off ALL legal immigration by muslims too since we can’t trust them. Let ‘em stay in their own hellholes!
If 9/11 didn’t do it, nothing will. Once people are brainwashed into believing terrorism is our fault, then further evidence of terrorists’ ill-will toward us will just provide American haters more fodder in their way of thinking. It takes a change of heart to evaludate evidence. Eyes to see and ears to hear. Heart preceeds reason and rationality.
“Insanity...”
Indeed it is. Multi-culturalism destroys nations. It implies no culture is better or worse than any other. In a world where right and wrong and good and evil exist, that cannot be correct. Values vary between cultures. When different but similar cultures with shared core values co-habitate, there is little problem. When core values clash between cultures, there is conflict.
Thus our “War on Terror” and the ongoing, deadlier “Culture War” we fight right here.
Culture is one definition of nation. The status of the definition of nation is murky now and always was shifty.
Food for thought. Thanks.
Ritter—Dictionary of Concepts in History.
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