Posted on 12/23/2008 5:17:16 AM PST by SJackson
| Shilling for the Ft. Dix Six |
The Fort Dix jihad plotters are guilty, and Muslim spokesmen in America are outraged – not at the plotters who have ostensibly "hijacked" their religion, but at the officials who secured the convictions. They wanted to burst into Fort Dix and murder as many American soldiers as they could, but it was all a joke, you see: so said Mohamed Younes, president of the American Muslim Union. "I don’t think they actually mean to do anything," he asserted. "I think they were acting stupid, like they thought the whole thing was a joke. They don’t look like the type of people to do something like this." Unfortunately, Associated Press reporter Wayne Parry doesn’t seem to have followed this up by asking Younes exactly what "the type of people to do something like this" actually do look like. It might have been interesting to see a Muslim leader in the United States engage in what could be regarded as "racial profiling," but it would, of course, have been far too politically incorrect for AP to print.In any case, when one of the Fort Dix jihadists, Mohamad Shnewer, was in a particularly joking mood back in 2006, he showed a fellow plotter who turned out to be a government informant some DVD files: some featured Osama bin Laden calling Muslims to wage jihad warfare, and others contained the last will and testaments of some of the 9/11 hijackers. Oh, Shnewer, you kidder! Shnewer was ready to lay them in the aisles but good, saying of American soldiers at Fort Dix, "They are the ones, we are going to put bullets in their heads, Allah willing." Riotous!
One of the other plotters, Serdar Tatar, displayed a sense of comic timing that rivaled the side-splitting Shnewer’s when he told an FBI informant that he was ready to commit mass murder at Fort Dix: "I’m gonna do it….It doesn’t matter to me, whether I get locked up, arrested, or get taken away, it doesn’t matter. Or I die, doesn’t matter, I’m doing it in the name of Allah."
Muslim leaders others who were present at the trial were not pleased on Monday that these happy-go-lucky jokesters now face life in prison. Faten Shnewer, Mohamad Shnewer’s mother, said of the verdict: "It’s not right, it’s not justice." It was entrapment: the government "sent somebody to push him to say something; that’s it." Entrapment seemed to be the line of choice: Jim Sues of the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), echoed Faten Shnewer’s lament: "Many people in the Muslim community will see this as a case of entrapment. From what I saw, there was a significant role played by the government informant." (Given CAIR’s taste for attempting to silence its critics by means of legal intimidation, Sues is aptly named, and faces a bright future in the organization.)
A former Muslim chaplain for the U.S. military and Obama delegate to the Democratic National Convention, James Yee, expressed sorrow over the verdicts as well – not because of the potential loss of life at Fort Dix, but because the convictions would ruffle American Muslim feathers: "All of this doesn’t help build trust with the American Muslim community," he complained, "and that is vital if our law enforcement is going to fight terrorism. If anyone can improve security, it’s our community, but we need to be seen as trusted partners, not potential suspects." Yee knows what it’s like to be a suspect: in 2004 he was investigated for mishandling classified material at Guantanamo. The charges were dismissed in March 2004, but Yee was not exactly cleared: AP reported that "in dismissing the charges, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, which operates the detention center, cited ‘national security concerns that would arise from the release of the evidence’ if the case proceeded." Not exactly a resounding affirmation of Yee’s clean hands.
In any case, it is useful to pause and consider how Muslim leaders could be reacting to the verdicts. Instead of hurling reckless charges of "entrapment," they could be taking the hard steps necessary to clean their own house. All these years now after 9/11, most Americans still have no idea that they need do any such housecleaning – even outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff recently told USA Today that "what we’re confronting is an ideological conflict with an extremist world view that I don’t think is an accurate representative of Islam, but uses the language or hijacks Islam for an extremist agenda." Yet while Muslim and non-Muslim spokesmen have spilled oceans of ink since 9/11 asserting that Islam condemns "terrorism" and the killing of "innocents," without defining what is meant by either term, no one has ever produced any examples of authoritative and orthodox Islamic religious scholars rejecting, on Islamic grounds, jihad violence against non-Muslims; rejecting the idea that Sharia law should be instituted in the Muslim and non-Muslim world; and teaching the idea that non-Muslims and Muslims should live together indefinitely as equals.
Thus the Fort Dix verdicts give American Muslim groups who claim moderation to demonstrate the genuineness of the claim, or to be further exposed in the eyes of the public. Now is the time for law enforcement and government officials to call upon the Muslim community to institute comprehensive and inspectable programs teaching against the jihad ideology and Islamic supremacism. If they don’t – and they won’t – one thing is certain: there will be more jihad plots like this one in America.
Robert Spencer is a scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law and the director of Jihad Watch. He is the author of seven books, eight monographs, and hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism, including the New York Times Bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His next book, Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs, is coming this November from Regnery Publishing.
These poor muslim victims. Unfortunately for them no one gives a rat's rear and they will hopefully be sentenced to the maximum.
Hmmm...
Sloped, forehead with pronounced ridge. Check
Long, pointy beard. Check
Dark eyes with burning hatred for civilization. Check.
Jaunty kufie. Check
I disagree Mohamed.
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I bet Dear Leader is greatly distressed at the verdict.
The Fort Dix jihad plotters are guilty, and Muslim spokesmen in America are outraged – not at the plotters who have ostensibly “hijacked” their religion, but at the officials who secured the convictions.
The muslim religion was not hi-jacked by these terrorist. This IS the muslim religion.
Kill all the infidels and return the world to the 7th century.
Compare this attitude with the attitude of the Nisei in WWII—even though we had ordered them into detention camps, they still volunteered for the US forces and fought in large numbers for the USA.
(Where are these Arab-Americans holding pro-USA rallies and volunteering in huge numbers for the US forces?)
They live here but it’s not their country.
they should be hung by the neck until they are dead....
They have infiltrated here, but it's not their country.
there, that's better.....
It’s well past time for the American public to wake up and smell the coffee. We are in a state of war with Islam, and have been for over 1400 years.
Religion of Peace? Nah...more like Religion of Pieces. These barbarians have been unable to advance their cause into the modern age, and so seek to drag the modern world back to their darkness.
And, our insane march to Political Correctness is giving them the upper hand at the expense of our own way of life.
It’s time for this slide into the abyss of barbarism to be brought to a screeching halt.
These convictions are a step in the right direction. Tell CAIR to pound sand...
“They don’t look like the type of people to do something like this.” Isn’t this profiling????????????????????
I don’t know what took the jury so long..they should have been guilty of all counts. Off with their heads.
Under 0 this kind of case will not be prosecuted
0 will have some super loony lefties he appoints to be US Attorneys. And lets see if he fires every last GW appointment to US Attorney
“They don’t look like the type of people to do something like this”
Leave it to a simian-mohammedan to come up with that one. Mohammed Atta didn’t “look like” a hijacker, either.
“they could be taking the hard steps necessary to clean their own house”
Therein lies the problem. Simian-mohammedans think that IS a “clean house.” It’s in their doctrine, their thought process, their being. They won’t rest until we are destroyed as a country and as a people.
Piss on islam(may pig shit be upon the prophet’s head)
I throw my size 11 Turkish Brogans in your general direction
(odor-eaters not included)
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