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A Muslim Terrorist From the Capital of ISIS Shot Up a Supermarket. Biden Blames Guns
Frontpagemagazine ^ | Mar 24, 2021 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 03/24/2021 6:54:12 AM PDT by SJackson

Biden ended Trump’s Muslim ban claiming it “undermined our national security.”

Two years ago, Ahmad Al-Issa shared a post titled, “Why refugees and immigrants are good for America.” On Monday, the Syrian Muslim immigrant shot up a supermarket killing ten Americans.

Biden declared that he was "still waiting for more information regarding the shooter, his motive, the weapons he used. The guns, the magazines, the weapons, the modifications that have apparently taken place to those weapons that are involved here."

Why do the modifications to the Syrian immigrant's weapons matter more than his motive?

Obama joined in, demanding that it is, “long past time for those with the power to fight this epidemic of gun violence to do so.”

Guns don’t kill people. Muslim terrorists do.

Ahmad Al-Issa spent much of his time in America accusing his classmates and everyone around him of being ‘Islamophobes’. He repeatedly got into furious confrontations with the Americans whom he claimed were disrespecting his Islamic religion.

The media is spinning this as a mental illness, but if hating non-Muslims is a mental illness, then it’s a common one in his home country.

While Ahmad Al-Issa came to America at a young age with his family, the Al-Issa clan originated from Raqqa. The name of the Syrian city may not mean much to most Americans, but it was the former capital of the Caliphate of the Islamic State.

Or ISIS.

And that was after it had been previously taken over by the Al Nusra Front, linked to Al Qaeda, and by Ahrar al-Sham, which had coordinated with ISIS. Multiple Jihadist units and groups used the name ‘Raqqa’ to symbolize their determination to stake a claim to the Syrian city and region.

Raqqa has a sizable Sunni Islamist base even beyond ISIS.

While Al-Issa grew up in America, his family would have likely maintained an extensive network of family connections with Raqqa. Family members insist that Ahmad Al-Issa was not a radical, but he was clearly a committed Muslim and his Facebook page, since taken down, is filled with Islamic content, and with attacks on President Trump and on America over ‘Islamophobia’.

Colorado took in a sizable number of migrants with multiple charities, religious and secular, springing up to help the alleged refugees. And once again Americans are reeling from a terror attack because Democrats and some Republicans refuse to secure our immigration system.

There were plenty of warnings that Ahmad Al-Issa’s hatred for America and obsession with Islamophobia could turn violent. In 2017, he assaulted a fellow student claiming that he had made fun of his identity. The Syrian immigrant got off with a misdemeanor, probation, and community service. Just imagine if the system had done its job and locked him up instead.

The angry outbursts and claims of Islamophobia are now being spun as mental illness.

But the most obvious explanation for why a Syrian Muslim immigrant whose family comes from the capital of ISIS would shoot up an American supermarket isn’t mental illness.

Nor is the solution gun control.

Democrats and the media had attacked President Trump for suspending the migration of Syrians into America. When Biden overturned the suspension, the media cheered.

“Beyond contravening our values, these Executive Orders and Proclamations have undermined our national security," Biden had falsely declared.

The bodies of ten dead Americans show what national security with terror migration looks like.

In 2016, Judge Posner had prevented Governor Pence from blocking Syrian refugees. Posner bizarrely claimed that Pence's attempt to protect Americans from Islamic terrorists was the equivalent of forbidding "black people to settle in Indiana."

The Trump administration’s moves would not have stopped the Al-Issa clan from coming here in 2002, but it would have prevented future terrorists from taking more American lives.

Biden and the Democrats responded to the King Sooper shootings by preaching “common sense gun control”. But their gun control has yet to work in Chicago or New York. Meanwhile what Americans need isn’t fewer guns, but fewer immigrant and refugee terrorists.

The tragedy of the Al-Issa family arriving here in 2002, after September 11, is a case study in the obstinate refusal of our political elites to reckon with even the worst terror attacks.

President George W. Bush had postponed the Presidential Determination for the number of refugees imported into America because of the September 11 attacks. But he nevertheless went ahead and issued it in November 2001 which allocated 70,000 refugee slots.

And, insanely, boosted the Near East/South Asia category from 10,000 to 15,000 which had been set at 4,000 under Clinton. In 2001, some 3,000 had already been referred to through Syria, Jordan and Turkey. These numbers may sound technical, but they show the terrible policy decisions that led directly to the brutal murder of ten Americans in an ordinary supermarket.

The American victims of Ahmad Al-Issa's rampage included grandparents and employees, an actress, and a police officer who charged the Muslim shooter and paid for it with his life.

Colorado Democrats clamor that this shooting didn’t have to happen. They’re right, but not because of gun control. It didn’t have to happen if we just reformed our immigration system.

Ahmad Al-Issa grew up in America and hated every minute of it. He hated his host country, his classmates and his peers. Over the years, his hatred grew until it consumed him. Then it consumed in his victims in a murderous rampage aimed at non-Muslim Coloradans.

In 2019, Al-Issa had fashionably tweeted, #istandwithrefugees. It's the sort of thing that many in Boulder, in Colorado, and across America have irresponsibly tweeted.

And it’s a hashtag that kills.

Bush’s decision to let in the Al-Issa family after September 11 killed ten Americans. It was a tragic decision that he might not have seen buried in the numbers. But it happened anyway.

There’s really no excuse for it today after two decades of continuous Islamic terrorism.

Every day that we keep our border open, that we welcome in more migrants from terror states, we are pointing a loaded gun at our own heads and pulling the trigger. Most of the time the chamber is empty, but every now and then, the immigration gun fires and people die.

Biden and the Democrats would like to talk about Al-Issa’s weapon modifications after opening the border to gang members and terrorists. They want to push restrictions on Americans owning guns, instead of restrictions on their own resettlement agencies bringing in terrorists.

The problem is not that a Syrian immigrant from the capital of ISIS had a gun. The problem was that a Syrian immigrant from the capital of ISIS was in Colorado and in America.

The authorities and the media will go on lying to Americans. They will blame mental illness, as they do with every Muslim terrorist, and depict Al-Issa as the victim of Islamophobic bigots. The Democrats will turn the killer into the victim and his victims into the perpetrators as they have done so many times. They will tell us that Islam is a religion of peace, and that Al-Issa’s religion and his family origins in the capital of the ISIS Caliphate should be ignored.

And even in the midst of so many burning issues, we must not give up the fight on this one.

There are hard, cold truths about Islamic terrorism that decades after September 11 we seem to be no closer to understanding than Bush was in November 2001.

We can stand with the terror refugees killing us. Or we can stand with their American victims.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bouldershooting; danielgreenfield; greenfield; iraq; sultanknish; terrorism

1 posted on 03/24/2021 6:54:12 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: texas booster

ping for your list


2 posted on 03/24/2021 6:54:33 AM PDT by SJackson (A city for sale and doomed to quick destruction, if it should find a buyer, Gaius Sallustius Crispu)
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To: SJackson

There are 68 passages in the koran for the muslim to lie, cheat, steal and kill the infidel.


3 posted on 03/24/2021 6:56:01 AM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: SJackson

I appreciate how the title made sense. That’s becoming rare today.


4 posted on 03/24/2021 6:56:23 AM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
5 posted on 03/24/2021 6:57:46 AM PDT by SJackson (A city for sale and doomed to quick destruction, if it should find a buyer, Gaius Sallustius Crispu)
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To: SJackson

We can deal with the Muslims. The real enemy America faces is the American Left and its globalist puppet masters.


6 posted on 03/24/2021 7:01:43 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: SJackson

He was just a representative of the religion of peace helping the Democrats destroy our Republic.


7 posted on 03/24/2021 7:05:32 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: SJackson
but if hating non-Muslims is a mental illness

How many mainstream Religions are there in the world? How many of them command their followers to seek out and Kill all Non Believers??
8 posted on 03/24/2021 7:06:23 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: chopperk
Islam is a "religion of peace"
9 posted on 03/24/2021 7:07:37 AM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: Kevmo

10 posted on 03/24/2021 7:09:05 AM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: SJackson

copied:
The Boulder shooter targeted the King Soopers grocery store, which bills itself “Your One-Stop Shop for Kosher Groceries.” The murders came at a time people are busy shopping for Passover. Do we have a motive? An attack on the Jewish community? Or a convenient soft target?

On his way to King Soopers he passed several other grocery store and apparently targeted this particular one.

Motivation?? You got it!!!


11 posted on 03/24/2021 7:23:57 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: elpadre
Your One-Stop Shop for Kosher Groceries

Interesting, I hadn't read that. Probably won't.

12 posted on 03/24/2021 7:25:46 AM PDT by SJackson (A city for sale and doomed to quick destruction, if it should find a buyer, Gaius Sallustius Crispu)
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To: SJackson

13 posted on 03/24/2021 7:26:37 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: 100American; 21twelve; 2nd amendment mama; A Conservative Thinker; Absolutely Nobama; ...
Ping out to the Sultan Knish blog!

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.

14 posted on 03/24/2021 7:56:40 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: SJackson
Obama joined in, demanding that it is, “long past time for those with the power to fight this epidemic of gun violence to do so.”

Obama will continue to speak out in order to under-gird Harris far more than Biden.....He's actually the mouthpiece behind Biden but they're looking to have Harris well prepared for the 2024 Election.....she's like the “apprentice” that follows around behind the guy she's going to replace in order to get comfortable in the environment a President is in and faces.

15 posted on 03/24/2021 8:08:50 PM PDT by caww
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To: elpadre

I would think that all targets in Boulder are soft.

We used to say that Boulder was “behind the Bamboo Curtain.”


16 posted on 03/24/2021 8:41:18 PM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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To: Kevmo; All

Just like the fallout from the Pulse Niteclub shooting in Orlando. The fake news media and the gun grabbers were oh, so hoping against hope that it was some White homophobe when it turned out to be a psycho who thought he’d get in allah’s good graces by taking out as many homosexuals as possible. So of course them as now blame responsible gun owners. This level of denial and obliviousness is more pathetic and dangerous than the time Mary Jo Buttafuco was all over the media denying Joey cheated on her. At least Mary Jo eventually wised up and divorced the SOB


17 posted on 03/24/2021 8:53:05 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: SJackson
Guns don’t kill people. Muslim terrorists do.

'Nuff said.

18 posted on 03/25/2021 7:40:36 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (The Mob rises; the Monarchy trembles; the blade sings its lone song...)
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To: SJackson; All; texas booster

Mother Government is NEVER going to allow ‘We The People’ to be free of these monsters.

Plan accordingly for you and yours. :(


19 posted on 03/25/2021 8:28:57 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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