Posted on 05/13/2010 6:38:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A few days after the failed attempt of a Pakistani-born naturalized American citizen to blow Times Square sky high, I bravely made my way through the returning throng of tourists and street vendors to take a look. By my calculation, had the jackal, Faisal Shahzad, 30, succeeded with his evil project in the early evening of Saturday, May 1 to explode the SUV he left on a Times Square street, he might have killed several hundred utterly innocent civilians, possibly a thousand. Fortunately, he failed.
Despite instructions from highly experienced terrorists back home, he packed his Nissan Pathfinder with the wrong kind of fertilizer -- a variety unsuited for bombs. The firecrackers he rigged up as detonators were insufficiently powerful to set his incendiaries off.
Finally, according to my favorite intelligence analyst, Rush Limbaugh, Shahzad's alarm clocks, which were supposed to serve as timers, were set wrong. He failed to distinguish a.m. from p.m. Oh, yes, and he ran from the SUV leaving on its key ring the keys to his getaway car and to his apartment.
The evil Shahzad's incompetence, we are told, should not give us confidence that the next attempt by another terrorist or terrorist group will fizzle as his did. The failed attempt in 1993 to blow up the World Trade Center was followed brief years later by Sept. 11. In fact, the terrorist threats against us here at home continue and may be speeding up.
Since Sept. 11, there have been 20 Islamists terrorist plots directed against us at home, former Attorney General Michael R. Mukasey writes in The Wall Street Journal, including Maj. Nidal Hasan's massacre of American soldiers at Fort Hood. He urges that any terrorist such as Shahzad be designated as "an unlawful enemy combatant" and that information obtained from them in interrogation remain confidential to be exploited against our enemies. Doubtless he is right and prudent in his recommendations.
Yet without diminishing the extent of the threat from Islamist terrorists, let me return to my expedition into Times Square. Naturally, brave as I am, I did not face those crowds alone. I was accompanied by Greg Gutfeld, whom the nation's insomniacs and a growing cult of niche viewers know is the host of Fox News' nightly "Red Eye," which airs in the East at 3:00 a.m. Aficionados burdened by normative daytime schedules TiVo it.
He is also known -- though to a smaller audience -- as the man who while working for me robbed me of a hoard of pre-Castro cigars the night he was supposed to be assisting the Secret Service while President Ronald Reagan dined at my home and I introduced the Old Cowboy to King Frederick the Great's flute concerto in G major. Yes, I know, our current president is supposed to be very intellectual, but it is Ronald Reagan who was the first president to listen to the music of the Prussian dilettante.
At any rate, I have forgiven Gutfeld, and so after reconnoitering the area, I even allowed him to buy me a drink at a local saloon, where he filled me in on his view of the Islamists who confront us. He came quickly to the point. Said he: "They're losers."
He cited the large numbers of them who come to America, immerse themselves in our popular culture, go broke and still cannot find a nice American girl to marry. Later, he elaborated on his findings in his blog: "The fact is, these guys -- despite their education -- are seduced by a belief system devised to offer something they can't find anywhere else. Recognition. The shortest line to fame is infamy. Think about how it works in America. If you're a young man out to impress a girl, you join a band. Another becomes a comic. Another might obsess over his quads in a gym. But few alternatives exist for jihad-embracing losers when your culture demonizes women."
"Men are left angry," writes Gutfeld, who then launched into a diatribe that sounds very much as though he could begin a second career as a sex therapist, especially a sex therapist for Islamist terrorists dissatisfied with Big Bang theories propounded by a fat and grinning mullah.
There is a huge ambivalence about the Islamist terrorists, even a hypocrisy. The ambivalence and hypocrisy have been inherent in the angry Islamists for a long time. After a journey through Islam back in the 1970s, V.S. Naipaul offered his perception of it: "All the rejection of the West is contained within the assumption that there will always exist out there a living, creative civilization, oddly neutral, open to all to appeal to."
Of course, that was before the Islamists began planting bombs on our shores and dreaming of bigger and bigger bombs.
Every one should read this!
http://www.faithfreedom.org/islam/case-missing-muslims-why-islamberg-now-ghost-town
Enjoyed this! LOL!
Good article.
Shame that he had to mention RR in it.
Everyone...
islamism is at heart driven by misogyny.....
Shahzad and the Pre-9/11 Paradigm (WSJ May 12, 2010 MICHAEL B. MUKASEY)
There have been more than 20 Islamist terrorist plots aimed at this country since 9/11, including the deadly shooting by U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, those of Abdulmutallab and Shahzad, and those of Najibullah Zazi and his cohorts, Bryant Neal Vinas and his, against commuter railroads and subways in New York; of plotters who targeted military personnel at Fort Dix, N.J., Quantico, Va., and Goose Creek, S.C., and who murdered an Army recruiter in Little Rock, Ark.; of those who planned to blow up synagogues in New York, an office building in Dallas, and a courthouse in Illinois, among others.
Actually there have probably been far more.
(2001) Anthrax
(2001)Charles Bishop/Bishra the Tampa Teen Terrorist
(2001) Richard Reid/Abdul Raheem/Tariq Raja the "shoe bomber"
(2002) Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, the shooter at the LAX El Al Airline counter
(2003) Iyman Faris plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge
(2006) Naveed Afzal Haq at the Seattle Jewish Federation shooting
(2006) transatlantic aircraft plot - Ahmed Abdullah Ali, Assad Sarwar, Tanvir Hussain, Oliver Savant, Arafat Khan, Waheed Zaman, Umar Islam, Mohammed Gulzar
And there was also a plot against the LA Airport (a west-coast 9/11) and wasn't there a rampaging driver who shouted "Allah Akbar" as he drove over people?
And these are just the ones we know about.
There are 2000 mosques in the United States. Over 200 in the state of California alone. Even Alaska, Iowa and other more sparsely populated states have mosques.
The muslim faith is the fastest growing in America and will exceed the jews this year. Muslims are 2nd only to Christians in our country now.
And how many are unconstitutionally funded by the Saudi state?
Separation of church and state should not just be our OWN government. All governments funding religion (especially the theocratic political system of Islam) in America are a violation.
The elephant in the room no one wants to discuss is why would the U.S. allow Muslims to enter this country anyway.
The Islamic animals who have carried out terrorist attacks on our soil have entered this country legally. Why have we let them?
There are tens of thousands of them in our country now. No one denies there are many who have entered illegally; all agree that should not happen. But the feds don’t want to stop Muslim illegal immigration if it means stopping the importation of millions of Latinos.
But the obvious problem of legal entry into our country of Muslims is not even being debated.
There should be a two year moratorium on all immigration. During this time, no new citizenship proceedings should be allowed. During the two years, we should determine who is in the country illegally. They should be deported. Those who entered legally should be identified and ordered to leave the country once their visas have expired.
Then we should determine WHO we want to import and in what NUMBERS. I believe the numbers should be very small. And why would Muslims be on the importation list at all? Was even one of the jackals permitted into our land who commited a terrorist act someone we felt was absolutely essential to our continued existence as a country? What were they doing here in the first place? Why should we allow this to happen again?
Nothing at all.
It’s the idea of reading about such a great man within an article that discusses the vileness of muzzies.
That’s all.
Relax....
I’m sure most are funded by the Saudi’s. It would seem that any “religion” calling for the destruction of America and Israel would be a threat to our security? didn’t Janet Reno take out Waco for less?
Oh okay, thanks for clarifying
There should be no tolerance for a foreign power that does NOT permit freedom of religion (anything that is NOT the official relgion of that theocratic state) to expand that intolerant faith in this nation. There is no cultural exchange on a one-way street.
Agree but they are spreading like a cancer. This is a map of the mosques as of 2001. According to State Dept officials there are 2000 now. 140 in New York and 57 in Fla. Maybe more by now.
usmosmap.jpg
This attack killed 6 people and injured over 1000. I wouldn't call that a failure.
....and not one in mecca!
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