Massaging Muhammad - The media's whitewash of the Beltway sniper

Ballistics experts and eyewitnesses have agreed, and it looks as though Maryland’s Police Chief Charles Moose has successfully nabbed his man. Suspected serial sniper John Allen Muhammad has been caught redhanded, with the rifle, a scope and alterations to his auto which effectively turned it into a shooting blind. This irrefutable and damning evidence has put the major media in an unenviable position, considering their not-so-secret longing for another Timothy McVeigh.

By now, even the most casual peruser of the news has discerned that suspect Muhammad is black, thus defying 95% of the Cable News’ so-called “experts” who had confidently predicted that the shooter would be an angry white gun nut. Thus flummoxed, the media next flailed about searching for another favored target on which to pin the blame. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was incredulous when asked - twice, by different reporters - if the U.S. military “felt” responsible for the Beltway shootings, because of the perp’s prior Army career.

The media’s PC obsession and their slavish loyalty to absurd mischaracterization has once more blinded them to the real story, which is found in Muhammad’s last name. Mr. Muhammad, who was Mr. Williams until the year 2000, has an interesting record, to say the least. According to news reports, Mr. Muhammad provided a security detail for Louis Farrakhan, during the 1995 so-called “Million” Man March. Acquaintances have also come forward to report that Mr. Muhammad, a recent convert to Islam, was known for his anti-American, pro-terrorist rhetoric and that he always seemed to have a ready supply of cash despite living in a homeless shelter. The director of that shelter, the Lighthouse Mission, even reported Muhammad’s oddities to the FBI.

The major media ignores inconvenient facts which don’t fit into their worldview - even if they reported on by others.

Front Page Magazine’s Greg Buete, in a recent article, examines the links between James Ujaama, who has been indicted for trying to set up a terrorist camp in Bly, Oregon and Abu Hamza, a London imam associated with the Islamic Army of Aden - which claimed responsibility for the USS Cole bombing. Ujaama is also linked with Semi Osman, the former imam of a Seattle mosque he attended. Ujaama was implicated by Guantanamo Bay prisoner Feroz Abbasi, who affirmed Ujaama’s attendance at terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. Osman was nabbed at a citizenship interview, and charged with illegally attempting to gain U.S. citizenship. Osman’s apartment - in Tacoma - was searched and a wealth of material found, including “weapons, military maps, instructions on poisoning water supplies, propaganda of Abu Hamza and other materials related to Islamic extremism.”

Ujaama is also charged with designing a website for the Alabama based Sakina Security Services, a thinly disguised front for Islamofascism which advertises “The Ultimate Jihad Challenge”, a two week training course held in Marion, Alabama. Sakina’s owner, Sulayman Balal Zain-ul-abidin, (alias Frank Etim) holds the course at a property called “Ground Zero, USA”, and uses buses and police cars as training targets. Zain-ul-abidin has also reputedly trained bodyguards for Abu Hamza.

Mohammad’s “stepson”, Lee Malvo, who was caught with him, is an illegal alien from Jamaica. Jamaica is also the home of Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal, reported to be al-Queda’s number two recruiter. The links are intriguing, but blithely ignored.

Outside the hallowed halls of mainstream media punditry, many regular Americans speculated that the Beltway sniper was, indeed, linked to terrorism. What better way to terrorize people than to gun them down while they were performing innocent everyday tasks like gassing the car and mowing the lawn? He showed no bigotry, murdering men, women, black, Latino and white alike. He even tried - and nearly succeeded - in killing a child, and he threatened to kill many more. This sniper, like other terrorists, was focused solely and determinedly on his hatred of all Americans. Most likely, like them, he also considers himself as acting upon orders from God.

On September 12th, we thought the world had changed and for many of us it did. The media and the Left, however, are still dreamily ensconced in their world - where it’s always September 10th. If Jerry Falwell or Franklin Graham dares to assert that, perhaps, Islam has some inherent theological discrepancies, the usual Islamoapologensia pops immediately up to denounce them in strident terms. Falwell, for his trouble, had a fatwa declared against him. Yet, Mr. Muhammad terrorizes Washington and we’re supposed to understand his rage.

Since the 1970’s, Islamofascists have been behind most acts of terrorism. They are uniformly Muslim, and usually ethnic. For the media, whose demons are white and Christian, this is intolerable. Therefore, these inconvenient facts are ignored like the proverbial elephant in the living room or the unseemly belch by a dinner guest which everyone politely pretends didn’t happen.

Americans, however, for the most part are pragmatic realists. We realize we now have a serious Fifth Column problem, even if the media doesn’t. Our famous tolerance has been stretched to the breaking point by those who have shamelessly and deliberately exploited it. Instead of reading in my daily paper about “Muslim groups worried about a backlash against Muslims” (which hasn’t happened and probably won’t); I’d rather be reading a story titled “American Muslims forcibly denounce terrorism, marching in solidarity with their fellow Americans”.

Pretty amazing that a segment of our population only gets its news from the alphabet networks or the bird cage rags. Granted, that segment is shrinking fast. But many of these people will not even know we are at war and that the enemy has already infiltrated our borders, until they hear a bomb going off near them or find themselves ducking sniper bullets. My guess is the market for these 'news' outlets will be shrinking fast.

IMHO, I think it would require that the studios of Hollywood be a prime target of the Islamic terrorists, that the printing presses of some of these rags be sabotaged, that movie premieres and award shows be targeted. Liberal Ivy League campuses would have to have their hallowed halls leveled, Martha's Vineyard's water supply would have to be poisoned.

In otherwards, until the rarified bubble in which these pin-heads exist is burst by these hatefilled lowlifes who couch themselves in religion, they will continue to "give peace a chance," "make war, not love," and "feel their pain."

Maybe, just MAYBE, at that point they might take the risk of offending someone who is not a white JudeoChristian.

I know it sounds impossible, palmer. The root of the problem lies in the Islamic dogma that the Qur'an is not a book written by divinely inspired men -- the attitude of Christians and Jews toward the Bible -- but rather a book written by Allah Himself, that has existed for all eternity, which Allah dictated to the Prophet Mohammed. This doctrine goes all the way back to Mohammed himself.

The word of man can always be questioned. The word of God cannot. Thus, fundamentalist Muslims have a tire iron with which to beat "liberal" Muslims: for his arrogance in presuming to "interpret" the Word of God to mean anything except what it literally says, the "liberal" Muslim is a heretic, and heresy is punishable by death!

There's no way out for the "liberal" Muslim, except to break with Islam completely -- a schism. Inasmuch as Islam predominates among the most violent and savagely barbaric peoples of the world, this entails a high risk, including the risk of schismatic warfare. So far, "liberal" Muslims have been unwilling to embrace that risk. So they give lip service to the fundamentalist creed, and then live somewhat at variance from it, hoping not to be discovered. Robert Spencer's book Islam Unveiled provides a more detailed look at this.

It's the deeds of men that are good or evil, of course. But Islam, with its peculiarly invariant intolerance of dissent and its readiness to take up the sword against the "infidel," supplies ideological propulsion for a multitude of evil deeds. All some villains need is a rationale.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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