Posted on 07/08/2002 11:26:12 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
According to news reports, the administration, the FBI and every other relevant official agency cannot yet determine whether Hesham Mohamed Hadayet's murderous attack on El Al Airlines customers at Los Angeles International Airport last week was an act of terrorism. They are not sure whether Hadayet's murders were a hate crime, terrorism or an act of personal anger. They even claim not to be sure about Hadayet's motives.
The American government sure is easily baffled. An extremist Egyptian Muslim chooses July 4th to murder Americans and Israelis who are flying from an American airport on Israel's national airline – and the official line is that we can't call this terror or even identify the murderer's motives?
This country's officials are in a state of denial and confusion that is almost as frightening as the terrorism they are supposed to be fighting. The FBI says that unless Hadayet is linked to a terrorist organization, he did not commit an act of terror. But if that is now America's criterion for defining terrorism, Timothy McVeigh did not commit an act of terrorism. He wasn't linked to a terrorist group.
This absurd definition is worthy of the Keystone Kops, not the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Of course, we need to know if this man was linked to a terrorist organization, but the absence of such a link in no way lessens the fact that this was terrorism.
By confining our definition of terrorism to acts committed by those with links to terrorist organizations, we may be ignoring the most frightening aspect of Islamic terror: There are many individual Muslim extremists without any links to any terror organizations who are prepared to slaughter Americans and Jews.
Only Allah knows how many Hadayets there are. But based upon what we humans can know, millions of Muslims – especially Arab Muslims – have been raised with a hatred of Jews and Americans whose intensity is unique in the world. According to a former employee of Hadayet, Abdul Zahab, 36, a Syrian immigrant, Hadayet had told him that "the Israelis tried to destroy the Egyptian nation and the Egyptian population by sending prostitutes with AIDS to Egypt."
Hadayet learned this grotesque slander from the Egyptian government's controlled media, which, like other Arab media, routinely spread such lies about Israel and Jews. Millions of Arab and other Muslims believe that Jews kill non-Jewish children to use their blood for Jewish holidays and that 4,000 Jews avoided working at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 because they knew about the attack in advance. No wonder Hitler's "Mein Kampf" is a best seller in the Arab world and the anti-Semitic forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is widely reprinted and read there.
And this hate is taught here, too. The Washington Post and The New York Times have reported on Islamic schools in America that teach hatred for America and Jews.
That is why this debate about whether to call Hadayet's act "terror" or merely "a hate crime" is not only foolish, it is suicidal. If al-Qaida is destroyed tomorrow, it will hardly mean the end of Islamic terrorism. There are so many Muslims filled with a diabolical hatred of Israel, America and Jews that no terror organization is needed for Americans and Jews to be murdered regularly.
Were it not for the fact that Israeli security people were armed and spectacularly capable, Hadayet would probably have murdered and maimed dozens of innocent people. How many Hadayets must there be before America calls their actions terror and awakens to the dismal reality that a frightening number of such terrorists are created daily?
This is not a call to hate Muslims. It is a call to acknowledge Muslim hate. This hatred – the most virulent in the world today – created both 9-11 and Hesham Hadayet. Denying this serves no one, and it breeds contempt for those entrusted with protecting us from Islamic terror.
For an answer as to why the shooter did what he did we are asked to;
"READ THE KORAN"
- Hesham Hadayet
What we're seeing here is a case of suicide bomber mentality. He may have decided to commit suicide for the same sort of dreary reasons anyone might. But being of suicide bomber mentality, he decided to take a few folks with him, especially Jews.
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I have already heard government specialists say that many terrorists can be self activated, they are already sleepers and have limited connections to established groups although they are fully indoctrinated in their philosophies and then go out as 'indies' (independents) to further the cause through low level but repeated damage to soft targets. So why all the doublespeak over the LAX case, (as they tried to do initially with the shoe bomber)?
Does anyone think a lone gunman picking up a few motorists in the left turn lane on Route 123 heading for work at a certain US agency, would only be indulging in random act?
What is the motivation for this eery spin and not facing reality when we have more than enough evidence? Is it for our benefit or does it put us in further danger as individuals in our own country?
Dammit, we have a right to know.
Here's a happy thought from Middle East expert Daniel Pipes:
Islamists constitute a small but significant minority of Muslims, perhaps 10 to 15 per cent of the population. Many of them are peaceable in apearance, but they all must be considered potential killers.
How does 400,000 to 800,000 -- in our country -- potential killers sound?
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
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